Galaxy Minstrels - 80g

Minstrels belong to a very particular corner of British life: the cinema foyer, the newsagent counter, the motorway services stop where everyone gets back in the car with something they did not need. They are the sharing bag that never really gets shared.

People in Canada go looking for them because the taste is so specific. Galaxy chocolate has its own smoothness, and the shell gives Minstrels a texture that is hard to explain to anyone who has not had one. You either remember it or you are about to find out.

The 80g bag is a good size for one film, or for two people who are honest with each other. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from a sunny windowsill, and it will sit happily in the cupboard until the next night in. Some people scatter them over a birthday cake. Most never get that far.

Galaxy makes a fair bit more than Minstrels, and the smooth bar is the obvious one to pick up alongside. Plenty of people make up a small box of British chocolate at once, a bag of these, a bar or two, and something for the person who insists they do not like sweets.