Nestle Smarties Dinosaur Egg - 226g

Smarties sit somewhere near the top of most British childhoods, and Easter is when they go big. The egg aisle back home fills up long before anyone has finished the hot cross buns, and the Smarties one is always the one small hands point at.

People in Canada go looking for it because a plain egg is just an egg. Parents who grew up with Smarties want the same name on the box for their own children. Grandparents want it too, mostly so they can say they found it.

A proper 226g egg is big enough to share and small enough that nobody is forced to. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, out of the sun, and well away from anyone who says they are only having a look. It suits a basket, a garden hunt, or a parcel to a grandchild who has started asking about dinosaurs.

Nestlé makes plenty of the British sweets people miss, and Smarties is only the start. Most people add a few extra bits for the hunt, because one egg never quite covers a garden full of cousins.