Cadbury Oreo Gingerbread - 154g

In Britain, Cadbury at Christmas is part of the furniture. The selection boxes, the tin of Roses, and the seasonal flavours that appear on the shelves the minute the clocks go back. Gingerbread is about as Christmas as a flavour gets without wearing a paper hat.

People in Canada go looking for this one because it tastes like a particular time of year somewhere else. One bite and you are back in a front room with the telly on, a film you have seen twelve times and nobody willing to move.

The 154g pack is a good size for sharing, or for not sharing and saying nothing. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, well away from the radiator and the tree lights, and it will sit happily in the cupboard until the Boxing Day raid. It also makes a tidy stocking filler.

It sits nicely alongside the other British Christmas food that turns up in December: a tin of Roses passed round after dinner, a selection box for the youngest, and a pot of proper tea to keep everyone civil.