Thorntons Classic Milk Chocolate Egg - 150g

In Britain, Easter means eggs, and lots of them. A Thorntons egg has long been the one people hand over when they want it to count, the name you know from the high street sitting proudly in a row of chocolate on Easter morning.

Here in Canada, people come looking for it because Easter should taste the way it always did. Often it is for the kids, so they get the same egg you did, and you get to pretend you are not having a bit.

This is the 150g egg, a proper one-person Easter or a fair share between two, if you are feeling generous. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, well away from the sun. Chocolate and a sunny windowsill have never got on.

Thorntons is just as famous back home for its toffee and fudge, so the name carries some weight. The egg sits nicely in an Easter basket next to other British favourites, or on its own as the thank you that actually gets noticed.