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Boiled sweets that taste faintly of a nan's handbag, which is entirely the point.
Bonds of London fudge, sherbet lemons, humbugs and fruit sweets have different textures and equally unconvincing plans to remain unopened. Choosing by flavour is sensible. Remembering whether you actually wanted something chewy, boiled or crumbly is the detail that saves an unnecessary second order.
Some sweets are less about the flavour and more about where you were the first time you had them: a corner shop counter, a nan's handbag, the glove box on a long drive. Bonds of London covers that territory well, with the traditional British boiled sweets, chews, toffees and bon bons that people still describe by colour and shape before they remember the name. This collection brings together Rhubarb & Custard, Pear Drops, Sherbet Lemons, Mint Humbugs, Blackcurrant & Liquorice, Cough Candy, Chocolate Limes, Flying Saucers, Turkish Delight and more, all shipped across Canada by The Great British Shop.
This is the heart of the range. Rhubarb & Custard and Pear Drops sit alongside Sherbet Lemons, Barley Sugar, Garden Fruits and Blackcurrant & Liquorice, the kind of hard sweets that last a whole conversation if you have the patience not to crunch them. Mint Humbugs, Mint Imperials and Butter Mintoes cover the minty side, while Cough Candy and Liquorice Torpedos are there for anyone who likes their sweets with a bit of an edge. These bags are easy to keep in a desk drawer, a car door or a coat pocket, and just as easy to finish before you meant to.
For softer, chewier cravings, Bonds Strawberry Bon Bons, Lemon Bon Bons and Blue Raz Bon Bons bring the powdery coating and chewy centre that people tend to remember fondly. Bonds Dairy Toffee and Double Chocolate Toffee are proper slow chews, Clotted Cream Fudge leans rich and crumbly, and Fruit Jellies and Turkish Delight round things off on the sticky side. Chocolate Limes and Chocolate Oranges add that hard shell with a chocolatey middle, and Flying Saucers come along for anyone who still enjoys rice paper and a fizz of sherbet.
Finding Pear Drops or Chocolate Limes in a Canadian supermarket is usually a long shot, which is why this collection keeps the Bonds of London range in one place. Orders ship from Canada, so it is straightforward to stock up whether you are in Halifax, Dartmouth or Moncton, in Toronto, Ottawa or Kitchener, or further out in Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Victoria or St. John's. Add a few bags to an order of British chocolate, biscuits or crisps, or put together a mixed selection for someone who has been talking about Rhubarb & Custard for years and deserves to finally get some.
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View full detailsPear drops are one of those British sweets that divide people cleanly into two camps: those who reach past them for something else, and those who w...
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View full detailsCough candy is one of those British sweets that occupies its own very specific corner of the nostalgia shelf. Not quite medicine, not quite confect...
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View full detailsLiquorice torpedos are one of those British sweets that sit quietly at the back of the penny sweet tray and never need to shout about themselves. B...
View full detailsDairy toffee is one of those British sweets that does not need much introduction, and Bonds Dairy Toffee is exactly the version a lot of people hav...
View full detailsBonds Mint Imperials a firm, mint-flavoured lozenges—classic, cool, and refreshing
Barley sugar is one of those British sweets that has been around so long it barely needs to explain itself. Bonds of London Barley Sugar is the cla...
View full detailsProper toffee makes you work for it. Bonds of London Double Chocolate Toffee does exactly that, then pays you back in chocolate. Twice, because app...
View full detailsBlue is not a fruit. Nobody who grew up on penny sweets has ever cared. Bonds Blue Raz Bon Bons are the blue raspberry take on the British bon bon:...
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View full detailsSharp green shell, chocolate hiding in the middle, and a jar on the sweet-shop shelf you could only just reach. Bonds Chocolate Limes are the boile...
View full detailsThere is always one colour you save for last, and there is always someone who eats it while you are not looking. Bonds of London Wine Gums, back in...
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View full detailsEvery gran had a bag of these somewhere. Usually the handbag, occasionally the glovebox, always within reach.Bonds of London Garden Fruits are the ...
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View full detailsFlying saucers are one of those British sweets that people either forgot existed entirely until this exact moment, or have been quietly thinking ab...
View full detailsIngredients Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Vegetable Fats (Palm, Coconut), Maltodextrin, Acid (Citric Acid), Flavourings, Emulsifier (E473), Colour (Lutein)...
View full detailsEdmund sold out his entire family for a box of Turkish delight, and frankly, you can see his point. Bonds Turkish Delight is the soft, chewy sweet ...
View full detailsThe best part of choosing sweets is having quite unreasonable opinions about them. Rhubarb & Custard people know what they want. Sherbet Lemon people are waiting for the middle. The mint humbug crowd would like everybody to stop talking and pass the bag.
Bonds of London gives those preferences plenty to work with. We have picked boiled sweets, minty choices and a little fudge, each with its own texture and flavour. You can buy something for sharing without agreeing in advance how successful the sharing will be.
Rhubarb & Custard brings the sharp-and-creamy flavour pairing. Sherbet Lemons have a fizzy middle, while Chocolate Limes keep chocolate inside a lime-flavoured shell. Patience is part of the sweet.
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View full detailsZesty lemon-flavoured boiled sweets with a fizzy sherbet centre—a timeless, fizzy retro classic perfect for sweet-toothed nostalgia
Sharp green shell, chocolate hiding in the middle, and a jar on the sweet-shop shelf you could only just reach. Bonds Chocolate Limes are the boile...
View full detailsMint Humbugs pair their minty outside with chewy toffee in the middle. Mint Imperials take the firm lozenge route. Similar first thought, rather different bags to reach into.
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View full detailsBonds Mint Imperials a firm, mint-flavoured lozenges—classic, cool, and refreshing
Clotted Cream Fudge is here for the person who keeps choosing fudge while everyone else debates the boiled sweets. It is a separate decision, and a fairly pleasant one.
Clotted cream fudge is one of those British sweets that sounds almost too good to be true until you actually eat a piece and realise it is, in fact...
View full detailsYes. They are lemon-flavoured boiled sweets with a fizzy sherbet centre. The outside gives you the lemon flavour before you reach the middle, which explains the need for a little patience.
A chewy toffee centre sits inside the mint-flavoured boiled sweet, so the cool part comes first and the reward turns up later. Mint Imperials are the other bag for mint lovers, firm little lozenges that stay cool and refreshing.
Sharp, sweet, fruity and creamy, all in one boiled sweet. The rhubarb brings the tang, the custard smooths it over, and the pair have been getting on famously in British sweet jars for longer than most of us can remember.
Order them from The Great British Shop and they will come to you from Halifax, anywhere in Canada. Rhubarb & Custard, Sherbet Lemons, Mint Humbugs, Chocolate Limes and Clotted Cream Fudge are all on the shelf, so your basket can go round the old sweet counter in one go.
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