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Bonds of London Pear Drops - 130g
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About Bonds of London Pear Drops
About Bonds of London Pear Drops
Pear 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 will eat the entire bag before the film starts. If you are firmly in the second group and you are living in Canada, Bonds of London Pear Drops are exactly what you have been looking for.
These are the hard-boiled pear drops in the classic two-tone pink and yellow shape, with that sharp, slightly chemical pear flavour that is entirely its own thing and not really about actual pears at all. The 150g bag is a proper portion, the kind that used to sit in a jar on the newsagent counter and get scooped into a white paper bag.
Bonds of London has been making sweets like these for a long time, and the pear drop has stayed stubbornly unchanged, which is exactly the point. At The Great British Shop, this is one of those products that goes straight into the basket for British expats in Canada who know precisely what they want and do not need much convincing.
Bonds Pear Drops are suitable for vegetarians and are imported from the United Kingdom, so there is no need to rely on a suitcase or a vague international aisle. They are also confirmed suitable for vegetarians, which is worth knowing if you are buying for a mixed crowd.
Shop more Bonds in Canada or browse the full range of British sweets shipped from Halifax, Nova Scotia across Canada.
Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.
Conserver dans un endroit frais et sec, à l’abri de la lumière directe du soleil.
Frequently asked questions about Bonds of London Pear Drops
Q: Are Bonds of London Pear Drops suitable for vegetarians?
A: Yes, Bonds of London Pear Drops are suitable for vegetarians. The ingredients list sugar, glucose syrup, citric acid, flavouring, and natural colours including anthocyanins and curcumin, with no gelatine or animal-derived ingredients. They do carry a may-contain advisory for milk, nuts, peanuts, and soya, which is worth noting for anyone with those specific allergies.
Q: What do Bonds of London Pear Drops taste like?
A: Pear Drops have a taste that is immediately familiar to anyone who spent time near a British sweetshop counter, and genuinely difficult to describe to someone who has not. They are hard boiled sweets with a sharp, distinctive quality from the citric acid that softens as you go. The kind of sweet people remember with a specificity that is slightly out of proportion to the object itself.
Q: Is this the UK version of Pear Drops, imported from Britain?
A: Yes, these are made in the United Kingdom and imported into Canada. Bonds of London is a long-established British confectionery brand, and this is the same hard boiled sweet found in British pick-and-mix and traditional sweetshops. For people in Canada who grew up with them, that provenance is usually the whole point of the order.
More about Bonds of London Pear Drops
Pear drops sit in a particular corner of British confectionery: the hard-boiled sugar sweet, shaped and coloured to suggest a fruit while tasting like something altogether more synthetic and, for many people, far more satisfying. They belong to the same tradition as sherbet lemons, rhubarb and custards, and cola bottles, the kind of sweets sold loose by weight rather than in foil-wrapped individual portions.
For British expats in Canada, this category is one of the harder ones to replicate locally. The flavour profile of a pear drop is specific enough that nothing sitting on a Canadian supermarket shelf quite fills the gap, and the craving tends to be precise rather than general.
The 150g bag stores easily in a cupboard or desk drawer, keeps well at room temperature away from direct sunlight, and does not need refrigeration. The hard-boiled format means the sweets travel without turning into a sticky mess, which makes them a reasonable choice for posting to someone who needs a taste of home.
Bonds of London makes a broad range of traditional British sweets, and pear drops are one of the steadier entries in that catalogue. If this style of British confectionery appeals, the full Bonds in Canada range and the wider British sweets section are worth a look.
Orders ship from within Canada, so there is no waiting on an overseas parcel. Whether you are in Halifax or Moncton, the bag arrives in reasonable time and in the condition it left the warehouse.
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Somewhere in your memory there is a row of tall jars behind a counter, and a grown-up weighing out a quarter into a paper bag. Pear drops were always in that row. You got them home, swore they would last the week, and found the bag empty by teatime. This bag is from Bonds of London, a name that has spent its working life in exactly those jars, so the memory and the sweets line up rather nicely.
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Old sweets, new owners
When Bonds of London changed hands in April 2016, the trade press described it as one of the UK's oldest sweet businesses. The buyer was Innovative Bites, a US-foods wholesaler founded in 2008 by Vishal Madhu, and it was a multimillion-pound deal. The managing director, Philip Courtenay-Luck, stayed on with the business afterwards. Sensible. In the sweet trade, a familiar face behind the jars counts for a lot.
The jar on the top shelf
Ask the founder of Innovative Bites what Bonds is known for and the answer is traditional British sweets: pick'n'mix jars and hanging bags. Its best-known jars are retro classics such as sherbet lemons and wine gums, and pear drops sit very comfortably in that company. A year after buying Bonds, Innovative Bites went on to acquire pick'n'mix wholesaler Hancocks Cash & Carry in a deal worth about £100m. Which tells you how seriously some people take a jar of sweets.
Who had the last one
Pear drops are a car-journey sweet, a coat-pocket sweet, a back-row-of-the-pictures sweet. The bag goes along the row, everyone takes one, and it comes back with a single sweet welded to the paper that nobody will claim. Your nan almost certainly had a few rattling about in her handbag. Now there is a bag in your cupboard again, and the same argument about who left the last one.
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