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 boiled sweet that tastes exactly like being nine with a pocket full of change.
The trick is patience. You work your way through the lime until the chocolate turns up, slightly chalky and faintly ridiculous, and somehow the two get on. Nobody has ever explained why. Nobody needs to.
Crunch one early and you have missed the point. Everyone does it at least once a pack anyway.
These are the UK ones, and they ship from within Canada.
Frequently asked questions about Bonds Chocolate Limes
Q: How big is the pack?
A: It is a 120g pack of individual boiled sweets. Plenty to share, if you are that sort of person.
Q: Do they make a good gift?
A: For anyone who grew up in Britain, yes. Watch their face when they spot the green ones, then count how many come back.
Q: Are these the same chocolate limes I remember from the sweet shop?
A: Same idea, same green shell, same chocolate surprise in the middle. The only thing missing is the paper bag and the shopkeeper with the scales.
More about Bonds Chocolate Limes
Chocolate limes belong to the old guard of British sweets, alongside pear drops, sherbet lemons and rhubarb and custards: the ones once weighed out by the quarter from a big glass jar and handed over in a paper bag.
People in Canada go looking for them because they are oddly hard to describe to anyone who did not grow up with them. "It is lime, but there is chocolate inside" gets a polite nod. Handing one over works far better, and then you have a convert.
The 120g pack is a sensible amount to keep in the cupboard, the car or the desk drawer, as long as you stop yourself opening it straight away. Boiled sweets keep well somewhere cool and dry, and these are made for slow going, one at a time, ideally on a long drive when everyone has stopped talking.
They tend to end up in the basket with other sweet-shop favourites. Pear drops, rhubarb and custards, a bag of something fizzy: build your own pick and mix and nobody has to argue over the last one.
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