Cadbury Snack Shortcake Chocolate Biscuit - 6 Pack

Cadbury Snack sits in that very British category of biscuit that is really chocolate, or chocolate that is really a biscuit. Nobody has settled the argument, and nobody eating one cares. It lives in cupboards, lunchboxes and staff-room tins rather than on display.

People in Canada look for it because it is a small, specific memory: the packed lunch, the break at work, the one eaten on the walk home from school. You can describe it to friends here, but it is quicker to hand them one.

The six come individually wrapped, which makes the pack easy to ration, or at least easy to pretend you are rationing. Kept somewhere cool and dry, they sit quietly in the cupboard until someone finds them. They go in a lunchbox, a coat pocket or straight next to the kettle.

It comes from the same Cadbury that makes Dairy Milk, so it tends to land in the basket beside a bar of that and a box of proper British tea. A shortcake and a brew is not a bad afternoon.