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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.
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Discover a selection of iconic M&S products, from delicious groceries and snacks to pantry essentials.
If you grew up in Britain, there is a reasonable chance a tin of cream of mushroom soup has got you through at least one grey afternoon. M&S Cr...
View full detailsCranberry sauce from M&S is the sort of thing that does not need much convincing. It earns its place on the table, sits quietly next to the tur...
View full detailsIf 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 detailsChilli jam occupies a very specific and slightly obsessive corner of the British condiment world, and M&S Chilli Jam is one of the versions peo...
View full detailsA 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 biscuits have a particular reputation in British households, and the All Butter Belgian Chocolate Chunk and Hazelnut Cookies sit comfortabl...
View full detailsMarks & 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 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.
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 detailsIf 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 detailsChewy, fruity, and fun — these Percy Pig gummies are a sweet British favourite loved by kids and adults alike.
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 detailsGold 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 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 detailsChocolate-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 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 detailsCustard 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.
Traditional creamy custard-flavoured sandwich biscuits with an ornate embossed design.
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 detailsSpicy, crunchy ginger-flavoured biscuits, perfect for those who love a warming, fragrant bite.
Soft biscuits sandwiched with a sweet, fruity jam filling — a nostalgic classic.
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 detailsNobody 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 detailsNobody 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 detailsStem 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 detailsThe 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.
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 detailsThere 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 detailsChristmas 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 detailsA 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 detailsWhen M&S says "outrageously chocolatey," they are not being modest. The M&S Outrageously Chocolatey Milk, Dark & White Chocolate Biscui...
View full detailsA 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 detailsFew 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 detailsA 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 detailsM&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.
Hearty, lightly seasoned baked beans in a rich tomato sauce — a traditional British breakfast staple.
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 detailsIf 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 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 detailsFine 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 detailsThe 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 detailsHot 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 detailsGetting 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 detailsFor 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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The Christmas range lands from the UK in early November.
The day it arrives we unpack it, pack your order and send it on its way. Advent calendars go first, and everything reaches you within a few days wherever you are in Canada.
Order now and it has your name on it. The favourites go early every year. The people who leave it until December are the ones who miss out.
