Cadbury Wispa Large Egg - 177g

Easter eggs are serious business in Britain. By March the shop aisles are stacked high with them, and the ones that vanish first carry the name of somebody's favourite bar. Wispa has always had its own fan club, and they know exactly which egg they want.

If you grew up with it, you are not after any old Easter egg. You want the Wispa one, the one that turned up on the kitchen table on Easter morning, and Wispa is a name that never really travelled far from home. That is usually why people go looking for it here.

It is a large hollow egg in its box, a proper 177g one rather than a token gesture. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from radiators and sunny windowsills, and it will sit happily until the day. It works as the centrepiece of an egg hunt, a gift on the table, or something broken up and passed round after Sunday lunch.

Cadbury makes a whole Easter shelf of its own, so people often pair a big egg like this with smaller bits for the hunt: a bag of Mini Eggs, a few Creme Eggs tucked behind the cushions, that sort of thing.