Heinz Ploughman's Pickle - 320g

Pickle sits at the heart of the British cold lunch. The ploughman's on a pub menu, the picnic sandwich wrapped in foil, the cheese board at the end of the evening: all of them lean on a jar of brown pickle, and Heinz has a firm place on that shelf.

People in Canada go looking for it because the taste is so particular. A cheese and pickle sandwich is a simple thing until you try to make one without the right pickle, and then it is just cheese, sulking. It is also the jar people want next to cold meat after a roast, or beside a slice of pork pie.

The 320g jar follows the usual rules: cupboard until it is opened, fridge afterwards, lid back on properly or someone will hear about it. A spoonful goes a long way in a sandwich, on a ploughman's plate, or stirred into a toastie before it goes under the grill.

Heinz in Britain means a whole cupboard of familiar things, from baked beans to salad cream, and the pickle sits happily alongside them. Most people put it in the basket with a decent block of Cheddar and a loaf, and call it lunch sorted.