Snickers Chocolate Bars - 3 pack

In Britain a Snickers is part of the furniture. It sits by the till in every newsagent, it is the bar that drops out of the vending machine at work, and it is the one people grab when lunch has gone badly wrong and tea is hours away.

Moving abroad changes the small things first. You can live without a lot, but the bar you have been buying since you had pocket money has a taste you know by heart, and the British one is the one your memory is set to. That is why people in Canada go looking for this pack.

You get three separate bars, which is handy for lunchboxes, coat pockets and the glovebox (though not in a heatwave). Keep them in a cool, dry cupboard away from the sun and they will sit happily until someone finds them, which is usually sooner than you planned.

Mars makes a whole shelf of British favourites, so a Snickers rarely travels alone. People tend to pick up a Mars bar or a Twix from the same maker alongside it, and then pretend the basket was always going to look like that.