Maltesers Crunchy Giant Egg - 496g

In Britain, the Easter egg is a season of its own. The boxed eggs turn up in the shops long before anyone has painted a real one, and Maltesers is one of the names people reach for without thinking, the same way they grab a bag at the cinema.

Here in Canada, people go looking for this egg because the memory is tied to it: the box, the name across the front, the first crack on Easter morning. You can make do with any chocolate, but it is not the same Sunday without the one you remember.

This is the giant 496g egg, boxed, so it looks the part on the table and holds up as a gift. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from a sunny window. To open it, the back of a spoon works; a firm tap on the box works faster and is more satisfying.

Maltesers fans rarely stop at one thing, and a bag of the ordinary round ones tends to end up in the same basket. Between the egg and the bag, the whole family is sorted, at least until somebody counts what is left.