Bonds Lemon Bon Bons - 150g

Lemon bon bons belong to the jar-on-the-shelf era of British sweets, the kind that got weighed out by the quarter while you pressed your nose to the counter. They are a retro sweet shop staple, and they still turn up in pick and mix all over the UK.

People in Canada go looking for them because the taste is tied to a place: the walk home from school, the bag passed round on a coach trip, the grandparent who always had a few in a coat pocket. One bite and you are back there, slightly dusty.

This is a 150g bag of British bon bons, easy to keep in the cupboard until the craving hits. Once it is open, fold the top over and keep it closed, or the powder starts going places it should not. Good on long drives, film nights and slow afternoons at a desk.

Bonds is a name for old-fashioned sweet shop favourites, and the lemon ones sit happily next to the other British sweets on our shelves. Half the fun is building a bag that looks like the counter at the corner shop.