Morrisons Shortbread Fingers - 210g

Shortbread sits in the plain and proper corner of the British biscuit tin, alongside the digestive and the rich tea. Nobody shows off with a shortbread finger. They just keep going back for one, which says more.

Morrisons started in Bradford and became a fixture of the weekly shop up and down Britain, and its own-brand biscuits are the ones that turned up at home without anyone ever writing them on a list. That is exactly why people in Canada go looking for them: it is not a fancy biscuit you miss, it is the ordinary one that was always there.

These come as fingers in a 210g packet, long enough to dunk and sturdy enough to survive it (mostly). Once it is open, fold the end over and clip it, or tip them into a tin, and they keep happily in the cupboard. Good with tea, good crumbled over strawberries, good straight from the packet at the kitchen counter.

People tend to pick them up with a box of proper British tea bags and a couple of other biscuits from home, then wonder why the biscuit cupboard empties so quickly.