Cadbury Medium Santa Selection Box - 125g

The selection box is one of the fixtures of a British Christmas. Grandparents hand them out, aunts post them, the neighbour drops one round, and by lunchtime most children have a small stack and a chocolate moustache.

Here in Canada, the people looking for one are usually parents who want their own children to wake up to the same Christmas they had, or grown-ups who simply want the box with Santa on it back in their lives. Same purple, same Cadbury, same quiet thrill of opening the cardboard flap.

The medium box is 125g and flat, so it slides into a stocking, sits under the tree or fits in a card envelope's bigger cousin. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, well away from the radiator, and it will hold until the Boxing Day cupboard raid.

It tends to go home alongside a tin of chocolates for passing round after dinner and a few bits for the tree. One box per child is the rule. One box per adult is the reality.