Cadbury Creme Egg Twisted - 83g

The Creme Egg is one of those fixtures of the British sweet shop that people talk about like the weather: when it arrived, how the size has changed, how you are supposed to eat one. Twisted is the spin-off for anyone who refuses to wait for the season.

People in Canada go looking for this one because it is the version from the newsagent back home, the one in the school bag and the car glovebox. It is a very particular taste of Britain, and Twisted is not one you stumble across on the usual shelves.

The 83g size is a good size for sharing, in theory. Keep it in a cool, dry cupboard well away from the radiator, because chocolate sulks in the warm. Snap it, pass it round, then watch how quickly the passing round stops.

Cadbury makes most of the chocolate a British childhood runs on: Dairy Milk, Twirl, Wispa, Crunchie, Buttons. Twisted tends to end up in a basket next to a few of those, usually with the excuse that someone else in the house asked for them.