Countries may distinguish themselves from each other with emblems, currency and flags but it’s the little, mundane peculiarities that truly stay with us. A classic but often overlooked example of this is being handed candy instead of cash, when you make a transaction and are owed a balance by the cashier who doesn’t seem to have sufficient change. And we’ve all been there at some point in our lives - irritated, shocked, amused, or unbothered when it first happened.

Kopiko candy is lieu of `2 at a toll on the Bangalore-Mysore highway, submitted by Minu Chawla