M&S Chocolate Chip Cookies - 200g

An M&S food hall is its own small corner of British life, and the cookies sit right in the middle of it: somewhere between the biscuit tin at home and the bakery counter, bought for the tea break and usually finished before it.

People in Canada search for these by name because a vague chocolate chip cookie will not do. It has to be this one, the bag that lived in the office desk drawer, came out on the train home and got shared, grudgingly, on the sofa.

It is a 200g bag, which is a few days of good intentions or one honest evening. Fold the top over or tip them into a tin and keep them somewhere cool and dry in the cupboard. They go with a mug of strong tea, a coffee, or straight from the bag standing at the counter.

Plenty of people pick these up alongside a box of proper British tea, and if you spot other M&S bits on our shelves, you will not be the first to make it a basket rather than a bag.