McVitie's Milk Chocolate Digestives - 266g

In Britain the chocolate digestive is less a biscuit and more a fixture. It is in the office tin, at the tea break on a building site, and on the plate that comes out when the in-laws turn up unannounced. Nobody buys them for a special occasion. They are just always there.

Move abroad and it is the small things that catch you out. Not the big dinners, the ordinary Tuesday afternoon cuppa with nothing quite right beside it. That is usually when people start typing McVitie's into a search bar.

This is the standard 266g packet, the one that lived in the cupboard at home. Fold the end over or tip them into a tin once opened and they keep their snap. Store them somewhere cool, so the chocolate stays on the biscuit rather than on your fingers.

McVitie's makes a whole shelf of British favourites beyond this one, from Hobnobs to Jaffa Cakes to Rich Tea, and anyone picking up a packet of these tends to remember they are low on tea bags too. Funny how that works.