Thornton's Special Toffee Bag - 100g

Long before the boxes of chocolates, Thorntons was a toffee maker, and Special Toffee is still the thing a lot of British people think of first when they hear the name. It is the sweet that sat in the shop window and came home in a paper bag.

In Canada, people go looking for it by name. Maybe a grandparent always had a bag in the car, or it was the thing you picked up at the station on the way to visit someone. The name on the bag is the whole point.

The bag is small enough to live in a coat pocket or a desk drawer, which is where most bags end up. Keep it closed and somewhere cool and dry so the toffee stays firm. It is a sweet for taking slowly, ideally while the kettle boils and again once it has.

Most people have it with a mug of strong tea. Plenty of customers add a few other British sweets and biscuits to the order while they are at it, because one bag of toffee rarely makes it to the end of the week.