There are events that will forever resonate in the annals of human history. 

Pearl Harbour. JFK's assassination. The Apollo 11 moon mission. 

Now another weighty marker has been laid down in our racial memory. 

The day we discovered that what is quite possibly the greatest chocolate of all time - the Malteser Teaser - is now available in its purest unadulterated form. 

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No longer must we prospect through a tub of Celebrations, sifting out the pyrite of Bounty, the loose shale of Galaxy Caramel. 

Now those grains of gold are to be had in a 284g Teasers Gift Box, yours for the bargain sum of £3. 

Could this be the evidence of a benign guiding power in the face of Brexit, Trump's ascendancy and other signs of the Apocalypse? 

We think so.