But today French finger-lovers are feeling decidedly cheated after discovering the biscuits have disappeared from supermarket shelves – and are unlikely to return.

“Give us back our Finger” ran the headline in Ouest France, France’s biggest selling daily newspaper, which lamented that Les Finger de Cadbury had been missing from supermarket shelves for months.

The material for Peter Kay's next tour is practically writing itself. Flashback.

Are we still counting Cadbury as British?? Gone to **ite since Kraft bought them out!

My wife's probably eaten them all.