Cadbury Crunchie Spread - 400g

In Britain the Crunchie lives on the newsagent counter, a few bars along from Dairy Milk, and has done for as long as most people can remember. The spread moves it from the till to the breakfast table, where it sits in the cupboard alongside the jam and the marmalade and quietly gets picked first.

People in Canada search for this one by name, because nothing else is a Crunchie except a Crunchie. It is a very particular taste from home, and once it is in your head it does not leave until you have dealt with it.

A proper 400g jar goes in the cupboard with the other sweet spreads; the label tells you how to keep it once it is open. It goes on toast, crumpets and pancakes, and on a spoon at eleven at night when you thought you had gone to bed.

It tends to go in the basket with the rest of a Cadbury habit: a bar of Dairy Milk, an actual Crunchie for comparison purposes, a box of proper tea and a packet of crumpets to put it all on.