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Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g

Original price $4.99 - Original price $4.99
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$4.99
$4.99 - $4.99
Current price $4.99

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.

Availability:
In stock — ships from Canada

★ 4.8/5 shop rating from customers across Canada

 
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Buy Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g in Canada

Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g 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 - 130g 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.

Shop more Bonds of London sweets in Canada and British sweets

Suitable for Vegetarians

Ingredients and Nutritional Information

Ingredients

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

Allergens: May contain Nuts and Peanuts.

Dietary information: Suitable for vegetarians. No artificial colours or flavours.

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

Product information is correct at the time of posting. As products may change, please check the label upon delivery for the most accurate ingredient and allergen information.

Nutritional Information

Nutritional information per 100g.

Typical values Per 100g
Energy 1554kJ/363kcal
Fat 0g
of which saturates 0g
Carbohydrate 90g
of which sugars 65g
Protein 0g
Salt 0.01g
Ingrédients et valeurs nutritionnelles (Français)

Ingrédients

Sucre, sirop de glucose, acide citrique, colorants (anthocyane, lutéine), arômes.

Allergènes : Peut contenir des fruits à coque et des arachides.

Information diététique : Convient aux végétariens. Sans colorants ni arômes artificiels.

Conservation : À conserver dans un endroit frais et sec, à l’abri de la lumière directe du soleil.

Les informations sur le produit sont exactes au moment de la publication. Les produits pouvant changer, veuillez vérifier l’étiquette à la réception pour obtenir les informations les plus récentes sur les ingrédients et les allergènes.

Valeurs nutritionnelles

Valeurs nutritionnelles par 100g.

Valeurs typiques Par 100g
Énergie 1554kJ/363kcal
Lipides 0g
dont saturés 0g
Glucides 90g
dont sucres 65g
Protéines 0g
Sel 0.01g
More About Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g

Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g is available in Canada for shoppers looking for traditional British sweets and familiar rhubarb and custard boiled sweets. At The Great British Shop, Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g is stocked as an authentic UK sweet bag for customers searching for British confectionery in Canada.

This 130g Bonds bag contains rhubarb and custard flavour boiled sweets, made without artificial colours or flavours and suitable for vegetarians. Bonds of London is known for classic sweetshop favourites, and the brand has been associated with British sweets for well over a century.

Customers in Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford and across Nova Scotia often search for British groceries in Canada by exact product name, especially for Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard, rhubarb and custard sweets, British boiled sweets and traditional UK sweets. Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g fits naturally into those searches for British sweets available in Canada.

Shoppers in Toronto, Ottawa, Mississauga, Winnipeg, Calgary and Vancouver also order British food online in Canada when they want recognisable sweets, chocolate, crisps, biscuits and pantry items delivered from within Canada. Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g can sit in the basket alongside the rest of the proper British cupboard stuff.

Whether you are searching for Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g specifically or browsing British sweets in Canada more broadly, The Great British Shop keeps it straightforward. You can buy Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g in Canada and order it online in Canada alongside other familiar British sweets and groceries.

Additional Information

Packaging Accuracy

We always do our best to keep product information as accurate and up to date as possible. From time to time, manufacturers change packaging, ingredients, nutritional information, allergen advice, pack sizes, or branding without much notice. Because of that, the product you receive may look slightly different from the images shown online.

If anything important changes, we update our listings as quickly as we can. If you have a question about ingredients, allergens, or a specific product before ordering, please get in touch and we will gladly check it for you.

Transparent Online Pricing

We believe in being upfront about pricing. Some products are priced higher online than they are in-store, especially heavier items, fragile goods, or products that are more expensive to pack and ship safely across Canada.

That difference is not there to catch anyone out. It reflects the real cost of getting British food to customers properly, whether you are ordering from Toronto, Halifax, Dartmouth, Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Mississauga, Montréal, Victoria, Winnipeg, Windsor, Bedford, Saint John, Charlottetown, Kitchener, Carleton Place, London, Burlington, Etobicoke, or somewhere smaller in between.

We would rather be transparent about that than hide the reality in vague terms. Proper service, careful packing, and honest pricing matter to us, and we would rather explain the cost clearly than build it into the experience in a way that feels misleading.

Weather, Melting & Freezing Risk

Some products carry a higher risk during transit in extreme weather. In warmer months, chocolate and other heat-sensitive items may soften or melt. In colder months, drinks and certain products may freeze, leak, or become damaged in transit.

We do what we reasonably can to reduce that risk. Liquids are packed in sealed protective bags to help protect the rest of your order if a bottle leaks or bursts. During summer, we may add ice packs to chocolate orders or take extra packing precautions where possible. Even so, there is no way to fully guarantee that heat-sensitive or cold-sensitive products will arrive unaffected during extreme weather.

We are clear about that because we would rather be honest than make promises we cannot always control. Your trust matters to us, and we try to be transparent about how we price, pack, and ship every order.

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The story of Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard

The pink and yellow are not being subtle

Rhubarb and custard sweets do a useful thing: they tell you what they are before you have even got one out of the bag. Pink for the sharp rhubarb side, yellow for the custard side, no committee meeting required. Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard sits in that very British boiled sweet lane where the flavour is familiar, the colour coding is doing honest work, and nobody needs a lifestyle paragraph to understand the point. It is tart, creamy, sugary, and extremely direct.

Read more about the story of Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard

Bristol, apparently

The Bonds name has a slightly untidy bit of history, which is usually a good sign. The brand began in 1908 as Bonds of Bristol, not Bonds of London, created by the Bristol-based Packer confectionery business to sell chocolate products made at its Greenbank factory. Packer itself went back to Edward Packer’s business in Armoury Square, Bristol, founded in 1881, before moving into a purpose-designed Greenbank factory in 1901. So the “London” on today’s bag is tidy. The older paper trail is Bristol, which feels more interesting anyway.

Sharp fruit, soft custard, job done

Rhubarb needed sugar before it became the sort of thing people willingly put in puddings. Its stalks were being eaten in Britain by the 1700s, and English culinary use grew once affordable sugar made the sharpness easier to live with. Custard had been around in English kitchens for centuries, with custard tarts already appearing in medieval cooking, and Bird’s Custard powder arriving from Alfred Bird in Birmingham in 1837. Put the two together and the logic is not complicated: rhubarb brings the bite, custard calms it down.

Yorkshire took rhubarb very seriously

Rhubarb is not just a pudding ingredient with a sour expression. Yorkshire built a whole reputation around it. The Rhubarb Triangle, the 9-square-mile area marked by Wakefield, Morley, and Rothwell, became famous for early forced rhubarb, and Yorkshire Forced Rhubarb gained Protected Designation of Origin status in 2010. Before 1939, production was serious enough that up to 200 tons of rhubarb were carried daily by rail to London and other markets. That is a lot of people deciding the country needed something pink and sharp.

Why boiled sweets look so certain of themselves

A boiled sweet is hard candy made from sugar-based syrup heated to about 160°C, with colouring and flavouring added after it comes off the heat. Rhubarb and custard sweets make especially good use of that method because the two flavours can be shown as well as tasted. The pink or red rhubarb part and yellow custard centre are not decorative fuss. They are the product explaining itself in sugar form, which is often the best sort of explanation.

A sweetshop flavour with no patience for ambiguity

Rhubarb and custard has travelled well through British confectionery culture because it is so easy to recognise. It turns up beyond boiled sweets too, including rhubarb and custard custard cream variants, and even had its own sideways wink in British popular culture through the BBC children’s series Roobarb and Custard, first broadcast in 1974. The spelling may have gone odd for television, but the flavour pairing was already doing the hard work.

No need to improve the obvious

This is one of those sweets where making it clever would probably make it worse. The Great British Shop keeps Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard in the range because the colours, the flavour, and the old sweetshop logic all still know exactly what they are doing.