Beech's Dark Chocolate Ginger - 200g

Chocolate ginger lives at the old-fashioned end of British sweets, next to the rose creams and the peppermint creams. It is a grown-up sweet shop favourite, the sort of thing kept for after dinner rather than the school run.

People in Canada go looking for it because they want that particular bite: dark chocolate first, then the ginger arriving a second later and taking over. A name they knew at home makes all the difference, and Beech's is a name a lot of people knew.

A 200g pack is a proper amount, enough to share, in theory. Keep it in a cool, dry cupboard away from the radiator and the sunny windowsill. Most people have a couple with a coffee after a meal, or one with a cup of tea in the afternoon, then go back for a third when nobody is looking.

Beech's is best known for its chocolate creams, so the ginger tends to share the cupboard with a box of those. A pot of strong tea and some British biscuits finish the job nicely.