Morrisons Classic Pickled Onions - 440g

Pickled onions sit in that corner of British food where nobody makes a speech about them, but everybody notices when they are missing. The cheese board, the pub lunch, the jar by the till in the chip shop, the cold plate after a big Sunday roast: they turn up everywhere and are never the star, which is exactly how they like it.

People in Canada come looking for these because of a particular jar in a particular cupboard. Morrisons is a name a lot of people grew up shopping at, and a familiar label on a familiar jar does more for a cheese sandwich than any amount of explaining.

It is a 440g jar, enough for a good few ploughman's or one very determined evening. Keep it in the cupboard until it is opened, then follow what the jar says. Fish them out with a fork, not fingers, unless you live alone.

They tend to go home with a block of strong cheddar, a jar of brown pickle and a loaf of crusty bread. Add a pork pie and you have lunch sorted.