Morrisons Chocolate Chocolate Digestives - 300g

The digestive is the backbone of the British biscuit tin, and the supermarket's own packet is the one most families actually had in the cupboard. Not the fancy box saved for visitors. The everyday one that got raided after school.

People in Canada search for this by name because the brand on the packet is part of the memory. It was the Saturday big shop, the café upstairs, the particular aisle. A digestive is a digestive, until it is your digestive.

It comes in a 300g packet, which keeps happily in a cool, dry cupboard. Once it is open, a peg or a clip earns its keep, though in most houses the packet does not last long enough to need one. Best with a mug of tea, dunked briefly and pulled out before it goes over the edge.

Most people do not stop at the biscuits. They tend to land in the basket alongside a box of proper British tea and a few other things from the supermarket shelves back home, because if you are going to have a cuppa, you may as well do it right.