Cadbury Caramel Thoughtful Gestures Egg - 245g

Easter Sunday in Britain has a running order: a lie-in if you are lucky, a roast if you are organised, and an egg hunt that ends with somebody's egg looking lighter than it did at breakfast. A Cadbury egg sits right in the middle of all that, and the Caramel one has its own loyal following.

People in Canada go looking for the Cadbury Caramel Thoughtful Gestures Egg by name, because it is the one from the British corner shop they grew up with. Memory is specific like that. You want the egg from the photos, the one with the familiar purple and the familiar name on the front.

At 245g it is a proper egg for one person, or a generous one for two who trust each other. Keep it somewhere cool and dark in the cupboard, away from the radiator and away from anyone who says they are only having a look. Most people open it on Easter morning. A few heroes make it last the week.

Cadbury's Easter range in Britain runs from the little eggs scattered round the garden to the big boxed ones handed over at Sunday lunch. Plenty of people pick up a Caramel egg alongside a bar of Dairy Milk for whoever does the hiding. The hider always deserves a cut.