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About this collection
There is a particular sort of optimism involved in buying M&S biscuits “for visitors”. Bourbon Creams and Custard Creams have a habit of becoming household supplies before anyone has even checked the calendar.
Finding Marks & Spencer food in Canada need not involve asking someone to surrender half a suitcase. Our Halifax shop sends the current M&S selection from within Canada. The kettle, regrettably, is your responsibility.
Custard Creams, Percy Pigs and the M&S larder, by way of Halifax
Marks & Spencer was selling biscuits, sweets and custard powder from its Penny Bazaar stalls in the 1880s, and it has not wandered far from the subject. The Custard Creams are made with real custard powder, the Rich Tea with barley malt extract, the Digestives with demerara sugar for crunch, a small decision you can hear. In Britain the name still means somebody has done the worrying for you, which is what makes a plain biscuit worth carrying across an ocean.
We are an independent British shop in Halifax, no part of M&S and very fond of it. We carry its biscuits, tea, Christmas tins and Percy Pig over from the UK and on across Canada, and anyone buying from Britain has a page of their own.
Percy, Colin and the sweet things
Percy Pig is soft, shaped like himself and made with real fruit juice; Phizzy Pigtails add a coat of sugar and a super sour streak. Colin and Connie turn up in festive form. Snowballs are mallow under coconut and milk chocolate, and the raisins stay plump inside smooth Belgian chocolate.
M&S Percy Pig - 170g
Percy Pig is one of those British sweets that needs no introduction to anyone who has spent time near an M&S food hall, and if you have been mi...
View full detailsM&S Colin & Connie the Caterpillars Christmas Fruit Gums - 150g
If you have been hunting for M&S Colin the Caterpillar in Canada, the Christmas version is exactly as charming and unnecessary as you would hop...
View full detailsM&S Percy Pig Phizzy Pigtails - 170g
Chewy, fruity, and fun — these Percy Pig gummies are a sweet British favourite loved by kids and adults alike.
M&S Percy Pig Merry Percymas - 170g
Percy Pig in a Christmas jumper is not exactly a surprise at this point, but the M&S Percy Pig Merry Percymas edition is the kind of seasonal t...
View full detailsM&S Milk Chocolate Gold Coins - 80g
Gold chocolate coins are one of those things that exist in a very specific corner of British memory: the toe of a Christmas stocking, a party bag, ...
View full detailsM&S 8 Snowballs - 164g
M&S Snowballs are the kind of thing that appear on a plate in late November and disappear before anyone has quite decided whether they are a bi...
View full detailsM&S Belgian Milk Chocolate Raisins - 125g
Chocolate-covered raisins sound simple enough, but there is something about the M&S version that makes people very particular about which ones ...
View full detailsM&S 6 Ultimate Milk Chocolate Teacakes - 180g
M&S Teacakes are one of those British confections that people feel quite strongly about, which is reasonable given what they are: a soft, domed...
View full detailsBiscuits and cookies, in order of devotion
Custard Creams and Bourbons earned their place at the front long ago. Behind them, Ginger Snaps owe their caramelised note to light brown sugar, and Jam Sandwich Creams take the ratio of jam to cream seriously. Then dark chocolate chips and warm stem ginger make the case for cookies.
M&S Custard Creams Biscuits - 165g
Traditional creamy custard-flavoured sandwich biscuits with an ornate embossed design.
M&S Bourbon Cream Biscuits - 165g
Buy M&S Bourbon Cream Biscuits - 165g in Canada M&S Bourbon Cream Biscuits - 165g are exactly the sort of biscuit that never needed reinven...
View full detailsM&S Ginger Snaps - 250g
Spicy, crunchy ginger-flavoured biscuits, perfect for those who love a warming, fragrant bite.
M&S Jam Sandwich Creams - 155g
Soft biscuits sandwiched with a sweet, fruity jam filling — a nostalgic classic.
M&S Rich Tea Biscuits - 300g
Nobody has ever been excited about a Rich Tea. Then you move an ocean away from one, and suddenly you are. These are M&S Rich Tea Biscuits: the...
View full detailsM&S Digestives - 400g
Nobody thinks twice about a digestive until they move across an ocean. Then they think about them far more than is strictly reasonable. These are M...
View full detailsM&S Chocolate Chip Cookies - 200g
Nobody has ever eaten just one M&S cookie. The bag opens, the first one goes, and after that it is a negotiation. These are M&S Chocolate C...
View full detailsM&S All Butter Stem Ginger Biscuits - 200g
Stem ginger biscuits from Marks and Spencer are the sort of thing that sit quietly on a shelf in the UK and then become surprisingly hard to find o...
View full detailsChristmas, starting with the stag tin
The Scottish shortbread is baked in the Highlands, its stag tin drawn in ballpoint by a tattoo artist from Trondheim, which is more than most tins can say. The pudding has matured six months with lashings of rum and brandy. The Outrageously Chocolatey selection admits to more chocolate than biscuit.
M&S Scottish All Butter Shortbread Assortment Tin - 650g
A tin of Scottish shortbread from M&S is one of those British biscuit staples that turns up at Christmas, at funerals, at the back of a cupboar...
View full detailsM&S Iced Fruit Cake - 400g
There is a particular kind of British Christmas that involves a tin of iced fruit cake sitting on the counter for the better part of December, bein...
View full detailsM&S 6 Month Matured Christmas Pudding - 400g
Christmas pudding is one of those British traditions that does not really translate, and nobody is particularly trying to make it translate. The M&...
View full detailsM&S Top Iced Christmas Cake - 920g
A proper British Christmas cake is one of those things that either means everything or nothing, and if you are reading this, you already know which...
View full detailsM&S Outrageously Chocolatey Milk, Dark & White Chocolate Biscuit Selection - 450g
When M&S says "outrageously chocolatey," they are not being modest. The M&S Outrageously Chocolatey Milk, Dark & White Chocolate Biscui...
View full detailsM&S All Butter Viennese Biscuit Selection - 450g
A tin of Viennese biscuits is one of those things that appears at Christmas, disappears within a day, and is quietly missed for the rest of the yea...
View full detailsM&S Christmas Spiced Tea - 40 Tea Bags
Few things signal the British approach to Christmas quite like a box of spiced tea appearing in the kitchen sometime in November and quietly stayin...
View full detailsM&S Biscuits for Cheese Selection - 300g
A cheeseboard without the right biscuits is just a plate of cheese, and if you have grown up with M&S, you already know what the right biscuits...
View full detailsTea, beans and what the cupboard expects
M&S numbers its tea by strength: Luxury Gold is a full-bodied 4, Extra Strong a 5. Roast Potato Seasoning may explain why somebody else's roasties were always crisper than yours, and the Custard Cream Spread's pack says to eat it straight from the spoon. We see no reason to argue.
M&S Baked Beans - 400g
Hearty, lightly seasoned baked beans in a rich tomato sauce — a traditional British breakfast staple.
M&S Honey Nut Corn Flakes - 500g
Some mornings, nobody gets spoken to until there is a bowl in front of them. M&S Honey Nut Corn Flakes are what goes in that bowl. Honey nut co...
View full detailsM&S Fairtrade Extra Strong Tea - 80 Tea Bags
If your morning cup requires a tea that means business, M&S Fairtrade Extra Strong Tea is the kind of British brew that does not mess about. Th...
View full detailsM&S Fairtrade Luxury Gold Tea - 80 Tea Bags
M&S tea is the sort of thing British expats in Canada find themselves thinking about more than they probably expected to. Not in a dramatic way...
View full detailsM&S Fairtrade Fine Cut Orange Marmalade - 454g
Fine cut orange marmalade is one of those things that sounds simple until you find yourself in Canada, standing in front of a shelf full of options...
View full detailsM&S Custard Cream Spread - 400g
The custard cream is one of Britain's most quietly beloved biscuits, and now M&S has turned it into a spread, which is either a stroke of geniu...
View full detailsM&S Hot English Mustard - 180g
Hot English mustard is one of those condiments that does not mess about, and M&S Hot English Mustard is a particularly good example of the type...
View full detailsM&S Roast Potato Seasoning - 95g
Getting roast potatoes right is, for many British households, a matter of genuine personal pride. M&S Roast Potato Seasoning is the sort of thi...
View full detailsDoes Marks and Spencer ship to Canada?
For clothing and home it does, through its Canadian website, which sells no food. The biscuits and the Percy Pigs are our department: they come over from the UK to our shop and go out from Halifax, so a Custard Cream finishes its long journey as a parcel within Canada, with no customs forms waiting at the door.
Is there a Marks and Spencer in Canada?
Not since 1999. M&S arrived in 1973 and stayed for twenty-six years, until its last 38 stores closed, the one in the Halifax Shopping Centre among them. The shops went; the appetite stayed. There is some justice, then, in the food coming back through Halifax. After dispatch from here, a parcel takes 1 to 4 business days to Toronto, 1 to 6 to Calgary and 1 to 7 to Vancouver.
Can you get M&S food in Canada?
You can, through us. The range is expected from the UK on 1 December 2026, and anyone who has waited since 1999 can manage that. Where a page still offers "Notify me when available", it will send word once that line is ready. Everything then leaves from Halifax, and neighbours can choose free pick-up at checkout.
Where to buy Percy Pigs in Canada?
Through our shop in Halifax, and from there to the rest of the country. M&S launched Percy in the early 1990s and sold its billionth in October 2014, a figure that will surprise nobody who has opened a bag meaning to stop at three. The classic fruit gums are soft and made with real fruit juice. Phizzy Pigtails are the super sour branch of the family, and Merry Percymas is Percy dressed for December.
Can you buy Colin the Caterpillar in Canada?
As a sweet, yes, and he brings Connie: a Christmas bag of festive gums in fruit and milk flavours. Colin has presided over British birthdays since 1990, and few families can claim never to have argued over his white chocolate face. The gums settle the matter, since everyone gets a caterpillar. In a stocking, expect them to go well before the satsuma.
Why are M&S cookies so good?
Butter, to begin with, and then a refusal to hold back on whatever goes in next: whole hazelnuts with Belgian dark and milk chocolate chunks, warm stem ginger with oats, Sicilian lemon zest with studs of candied peel. M&S has had practice. In 1957 it was selling 100 million biscuits a month, Custard Creams among them. It shows.
Can I send M&S food to Canada from the UK?
Gladly, and with no trip to the Post Office. When the line is open, choose the stag tin or the Custard Creams, pay by UK card in Canadian dollars and give us their address. We pack it in Halifax and it travels within Canada with no customs forms, and you can add a gift note and leave the prices off the packing slip. There is no minimum order, and a bag of Percy says most of what needs saying.
What is Marks and Spencer?
A British institution, known fondly as Marks and Sparks, that began in 1884 as a Penny Bazaar stall in Kirkgate Market, Leeds, and opened food departments in all its stores in 1931. People go in for socks and come out with biscuits. If you are new to it, begin with a Custard Cream and a mug of Extra Strong, a brew with extra oomph, and see what becomes of the packet.
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