Thornton's Vanilla Fudge Bag - 100g

Fudge lives in a very British corner of the sweet shop, next to the toffee and the boiled sweets in jars. Thorntons fudge is the one people bring back from a day out, or get handed in a paper bag by a grandparent who swears it is the last one.

When you search for it from Canada, you are not after fudge in general. You are after the Thorntons one, the taste you can place exactly. Memory is fussy like that, and it is usually right.

The 100g bag is a pocket-sized amount, easy to tuck into a cupboard or a desk drawer and forget about for roughly an hour. Keep it somewhere cool and dry with the top folded over. It goes very well with a cup of tea, and rather well crumbled over vanilla ice cream if you are feeling bold.

Thorntons made its name in Britain on fudge and toffee long before the boxed chocolates, so the Special Toffee is the obvious companion. Most people who pick this up add a few British chocolate bars and a box of proper tea while they are at it.