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Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g

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About our best-before dates

We work hard to bring proper British groceries to Canada, but importing food across an ocean is not as tidy as stocking a supermarket shelf down the road.

Some products arrive with long dates. Some arrive with shorter ones. Different products come through the import process with different shelf lives, so the dates are not always as neat or predictable as they would be in a regular Canadian supermarket.

Most online grocery shops do not show best-before dates unless something is getting close. We do it differently.

If you were shopping in our Halifax store, you could pick up the product, turn it over, and check the date before buying. We think our online customers should get that same level of transparency.

That is why we show best-before dates clearly on our products.

What "best before" actually means

A best-before date is about quality — flavour, texture, freshness, and how the product is expected to be at its best.

It is not the same as a "use by" or expiry date, which only appears on certain regulated foods.

For everyday groceries like chocolate, biscuits, crisps, sweets, tea, sauces, jams, and pantry items, the best-before date is a quality marker, not a safety marker.

Why our dates vary so much

British imports are unpredictable. We do not get to choose every date that arrives in Canada, and different products naturally come with different shelf lives.

A jar of sauce may have months or years on it. A bag of crisps might arrive with a much shorter window and still be completely normal for that type of product.

We check dates, show them clearly, and give you the information before you buy — because that is how it should be.

What the colours mean

  • More than 30 days remaining
  • Within 30 days
  • Within 5 days, or past the best-before date

The product page will still show the actual date, so you can decide what works for you.

Why some customers like shorter dates

Many of our regular customers deliberately shop shorter-dated items when the price makes sense.

A chocolate bar with two weeks left is often every bit as good as one with six months left — and if we can pass on a saving instead of letting perfectly good food go to waste, everyone wins.

It is not about cutting corners. It is about being clear, fair, and sensible with stock that has travelled a long way to get here.

Questions about a specific product? Email help@thegreatbritishshop.ca — we read every message.

About our best-before dates

We work hard to bring proper British groceries to Canada, but importing food across an ocean is not as tidy as stocking a supermarket shelf down the road.

Some products arrive with long dates. Some arrive with shorter ones. Different products come through the import process with different shelf lives, so the dates are not always as neat or predictable as they would be in a regular Canadian supermarket.

Most online grocery shops do not show best-before dates unless something is getting close. We do it differently.

If you were shopping in our Halifax store, you could pick up the product, turn it over, and check the date before buying. We think our online customers should get that same level of transparency.

That is why we show best-before dates clearly on our products.

What "best before" actually means

A best-before date is about quality — flavour, texture, freshness, and how the product is expected to be at its best.

It is not the same as a "use by" or expiry date, which only appears on certain regulated foods.

For everyday groceries like chocolate, biscuits, crisps, sweets, tea, sauces, jams, and pantry items, the best-before date is a quality marker, not a safety marker.

Why our dates vary so much

British imports are unpredictable. We do not get to choose every date that arrives in Canada, and different products naturally come with different shelf lives.

A jar of sauce may have months or years on it. A bag of crisps might arrive with a much shorter window and still be completely normal for that type of product.

We check dates, show them clearly, and give you the information before you buy — because that is how it should be.

What the colours mean

  • More than 30 days remaining
  • Within 30 days
  • Within 5 days, or past the best-before date

The product page will still show the actual date, so you can decide what works for you.

Why some customers like shorter dates

Many of our regular customers deliberately shop shorter-dated items when the price makes sense.

A chocolate bar with two weeks left is often every bit as good as one with six months left — and if we can pass on a saving instead of letting perfectly good food go to waste, everyone wins.

It is not about cutting corners. It is about being clear, fair, and sensible with stock that has travelled a long way to get here.

Questions about a specific product? Email help@thegreatbritishshop.ca — we read every message.

 
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About Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard

About Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard

Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard is a bag of rhubarb and custard flavour boiled sweets, one of the great British sweetshop combinations that still makes perfect sense.

They are sharp, sweet, fruity and creamy in that familiar rhubarb-and-custard way, with the sort of flavour that belongs in a paper bag from the old sweet shop.

This 130g bag is suitable for vegetarians and made without artificial colours or flavours, which is useful to know before the bag quietly becomes nearly finished.

The Great British Shop keeps Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard available in Canada for customers looking for authentic British sweets in Canada. Imported from the UK, this is the proper Bonds bag and easy to order online in Canada when traditional rhubarb and custard sweets are what you actually meant to buy.

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Ingredients, Nutrition & Storage
Nutrition Facts / Valeur nutritive

Ingredients

Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Citric Acid, Colours (Anthocyanin, Lutein), Flavourings.

Allergens

Contains: May contain Nuts and Peanuts..

May contain: nuts, peanuts.

Storage

Store in a cool, dry place away from direct sunlight.

Frequently asked questions about Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard

Q: What do Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard sweets taste like?

A: They are boiled sweets with a sharp, fruity rhubarb edge balanced against a sweeter, creamy custard note, which is exactly the combination that has made rhubarb and custard one of the great British sweetshop pairings. The two flavours work together in the way they always have: the tartness hits first, the custard rounds it off, and the whole thing disappears faster than seems reasonable for a 130g bag.

Q: Are Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard sweets dairy free?

A: Yes, Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard sweets are dairy free. The ingredients are Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Citric Acid, Colours (Anthocyanin, Lutein) and Flavourings, with no milk or dairy components. The bag does carry a may-contain advisory for nuts and peanuts, so anyone with a nut allergy should take note of that.

Q: Is the Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard bag the proper UK version?

A: Yes, this is the UK-made Bonds of London bag, imported from Britain. Bonds of London has been part of the British sweetshop landscape for well over a century, and rhubarb and custard is one of their classic lines. For people in Canada who grew up picking these out of a paper bag at the newsagent, the appeal is usually the specific memory as much as the sweet itself, and a loose substitute simply does not cover it.

More about Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard

Rhubarb and custard is one of those British sweet shop combinations that has been around long enough to feel less like a product and more like a category in its own right. Bonds of London has been making boiled sweets for well over a century, and the Rhubarb & Custard sits comfortably within a range that covers the full sweep of traditional British confectionery, from pear drops to cola cubes to lemon sherbets.

For Canadians who grew up in the UK, rhubarb and custard sweets occupy a specific corner of memory that no local equivalent quite reaches. They are the sort of thing people search for by name, often after realising they cannot find them anywhere on a Canadian high street.

The 130g bag is a sensible size: enough to share, easy to store, and confirmed dairy-free, which makes it a straightforward choice for more people than the old-fashioned name might suggest. No refrigeration needed, and the bag keeps well in a cupboard or desk drawer.

Bonds of London produces a wide range of traditional British sweets, and the Rhubarb & Custard fits naturally alongside the rest of the Bonds in Canada range, as well as the broader selection of British sweets available here.

Orders ship from within Canada, so whether someone in Toronto is restocking a familiar favourite or a parcel is heading to family in Winnipeg or Montreal, there is no waiting on an overseas delivery.

Additional Information

Packaging Accuracy. We keep product information as accurate and up to date as possible. Manufacturers sometimes change packaging, ingredients, nutritional information, allergen advice, pack sizes or branding without notice, so the product you receive may look slightly different from the images shown. If you have a question about ingredients or allergens before ordering, please get in touch and we will gladly check for you.

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Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard

The story of Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard

The jar on the top shelf

You know the one. Top shelf, behind the counter, and you had to ask for it by name. Rhubarb and custard was the sweet you pointed at when the pocket money stretched to a small paper bag and not a penny more. Bonds of London is exactly the sort of name that filled those shelves, and this is the bag that takes you straight back to standing on tiptoe, watching the scales and willing them to tip a bit further.

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Old sweets, old firm

When Bonds of London changed hands in April 2016, the trade press described it as one of the UK's oldest sweet businesses. Not a bad line on the CV. The buyer was Innovative Bites, a US-foods wholesaler founded in 2008 by Vishal Madhu, and the deal ran to multiple millions of pounds. Madhu said Bonds had historically been known for traditional British sweets such as pick'n'mix jars and hanging bags. That is a very polite way of describing half the sweet shops of your childhood.

Same hands on the jars

Big deals have a habit of changing things nobody wanted changed. This one kept its managing director: Philip Courtenay-Luck stayed on with the business after the acquisition. The new owners clearly liked the sweet trade, because a year later Innovative Bites went on to buy pick'n'mix wholesaler Hancocks Cash & Carry in a deal worth about £100m. That is a lot of money riding on the British public still wanting a wine gum. Sensible bet, to be fair.

One for you, one for the jar

Put it next to the retro classics Bonds is best known for, the sherbet lemons and the wine gums, the sweets that live in a jar on the office desk or a bag in the car door. They get offered round once, out of manners. After that you start counting. And somebody always takes the last one, then swears blind there were two left when they looked.