Maltesers Gingerbread Reindeer - 29g

In Britain the Maltesers reindeer has settled into the same December routine as the selection box and the chocolate coins. It appears on the shelves, it goes in the trolley, and it ends up at the toe of a stocking. Nobody questions it. It has simply become part of the furniture.

Here, people go looking for it because of that exact moment: Christmas morning, still in pyjamas, unwrapping a reindeer before breakfast. If you grew up with it, a British Christmas feels a reindeer short without one. If you have children growing up in Canada, it is a small way of handing the habit on.

It is a single wrapped reindeer, 29g, which makes it a proper stocking filler rather than a centrepiece. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, well away from the radiator and the fairy lights. People tuck them into stockings, prop them by each plate at Christmas dinner, or hide them in the tree for the youngest to find.

It sits happily alongside the rest of the Maltesers family: the classic bag for the sofa, the Teasers bar and the Buttons. Throw in a selection box and a tin for Boxing Day and the cupboard is sorted.