Being true fans of the brand, they wanted to recapture the true essence of Charles Chips and bring back the famous tins filled with all of the original recipes.

They simply sat, mesmerized by the slightly dusty sound of Brautigan's voice, passing a bottle of Perrier and a tin filled with graham crackers back and forth.

York Mints - introduced in 2007, a tin filled with bite-sized mints that have a mint shell, chocolate on the inside, and more mint on the inside.

"This is what keeps us going year after year," Mr. Canner said as he stood in the company's showroom, gesturing to a wall of unassuming tins filled with checkers, dominoes and chess.

In its front room and store, opened in 1854, shelves are stacked with glowing dark tins and boxes filled with 450 kinds of tea.

Around her were tins filled with freshly made brownies and heart-shaped shortbreads.

The tins, filled by weight, usually contain eight or nine cookies.

But it became more and more difficult to save enough coffee and sugar and flour to keep the tins decently filled for the times they saw him in the path beside the railway tracks.

Back at the cabin, Maddy discovered a tin filled with strange orange-tipped sticks.

WE weren't looking for much - a small tin filled with plastic frogs and snakes.