Suckered by Tesco again. Cheekily nipped into town using Tescos free car park to avoid the N.C.P.s ridiculous charges. Appeased my guilty conscience by nipping into the store for a pint of milk and succumbed to the temptation of buy one get one free cakes. At £1.09 for two it seemed rather churlish not to. The cakes in question were a Jamaican Ginger Cake and a Lyons Golden Syrup cake. Both of these were childhood staples. If ever mum had someone pop in for a cuppa she'd whip one of theses out of the pantry to go with it.

I tend not to buy cakes as my other half has a waistline considerably larger than that of his trouser waistband despite all protestations that I routinely shrink his trousers when washing them. Anyway it's the weekend and these had my name written all over them.

Not much has changed since the 80s. I'm pretty sure back then they weren't made by McVities but I could be wrong. The packaging is almost exactly the same. In the case of the Golden Syrup Cake that's a dark green matt plastic packet with a gold logo and gold ends with the addition of the calories count and fat, salt and sugar contents. Apparently one slice contains 87 calories. Not the way I cut them they don't. In theory you'll get 10 slices out of this tiny 16.5 x 7.5 x 4.5cm bar but I can't cut them that fine, they end up as angled slivers in a pile of crumbs. Six portions would be far more reasonable.

Lurking within the plastic outer is a giant rectangular bun case which houses a glistening orangey brown cake. The smell is heavenly. Its like you've just popped open a tin of syrup. Peeling off the paper case reveals the moist cakey goodness in all its gooey glory. Its fairly easy to cut although it crumbles remarkably easily, still its moist enough that you can squidge all the crumbs into a cakey blob and eat them too.

It doesn't taste quite as syrupy as I remember but its plenty syrupy enough to appease even the sweetest of sweet tooths. Its moist, sticky and clings to the roof of your mouth as you're eating it. You'll be going back for more.