Reese's Gift Tin - 309g

Reese's is an American name that has settled very comfortably into British sweet shops and supermarket aisles. The gift tin is how it tends to turn up in Britain: at birthdays, as a thank you, or as a reward for surviving a long week.

Finding Reese's is not the hard part. Finding this particular tin is. The people who search for it usually want the exact one they used to pick up back home, or one to send to somebody who did, and nothing else will quite do.

It is a 309g tin with a lid that goes back on, which matters more than it sounds. Keep it somewhere cool and dry in the cupboard, well away from the radiator and from the person in your house who only wanted a look. It does the rounds on a sofa, sits in a desk drawer or gets handed over as a gift with no wrapping needed.

It sits happily alongside a box of British chocolates or a bag of something from the sweet shop aisle, which makes for a parcel that says somebody properly thought about it.