McVities Tasties Bourbon Creams - 150g

In the great British biscuit league table, the bourbon sits comfortably mid-table. Never the posh one, never the one left at the bottom. It is the reliable dark sandwich that turns up at meetings, in church halls and in your nan's kitchen alike.

People in Canada go looking for it because it is one of those things you do not realise you miss until there is a mug of tea in your hand and something is quietly wrong. A bourbon sorts that out.

The 150g packet is an everyday sort of size: one for the cupboard, one for the desk drawer. Once it is open, keep it sealed somewhere cool and dry, and dunk briefly. Linger too long and half of it stays in the mug.

McVitie's is the name behind the digestive, the Hobnob and the Jaffa Cake, so a bourbon rarely travels alone. Most people put another packet of something beside it, and a box of proper British tea to finish the job.