Reese's Peanut Butter Christmas Trees - 68g

In Britain, Reese's sits on the seasonal shelf next to the selection boxes and the chocolate Santas. It is an American name that has quietly become part of December in the UK, picked up at the till along with the wrapping paper you forgot.

People search for it because they remember the pack, not just the taste: bought at the corner shop on the way to someone's house, half gone before you got there. Christmas in Canada has plenty going for it, but it is the small things from home you notice.

It is a 68g pack, easy to slip into a stocking or leave on a plate by the tree. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator and, ideally, away from whoever finished the mince pies.

It sits happily alongside the rest of the British Christmas food: a tin for after dinner, a selection box for the morning, something set aside for the Boxing Day cupboard. One is rarely the end of it, so plenty of people pick up a second as a gift for someone who misses home.