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Sherbet, toffees, Jelly Babies and a few things your fillings should hear about.
You know how this goes. You add one bag of Wine Gums, spot the Sherbet Fountain, then remember Polos, Jelly Babies and those pear drops you had not thought about in years. Suddenly it is no longer a small order. Completely normal behaviour.
These are the bits people keep in desk drawers, glove boxes and kitchen tins, then quietly replace before anyone notices. A few for yourself, a few to share if you are feeling unusually generous, and maybe one extra bag of toffees or fudge because running out is irritating.
Call them British sweets or British candy; either way, the bag was apparently meant to last longer. Sherbet, fruit gums, boiled sweets and fudge make very different demands on your patience. Choosing the texture is half the business. Leaving the packet alone is the other half.
The range on this page leans nicely into the bits people actually look for: Wine Gums, Fruit Gums, Jelly Babies, Dolly Mix, Sherbet Fountain, rhubarb & custard, strawberry bon bons, mint humbugs, glacier mints and spearmints. There is plenty of chew, fizz, mint, liquorice and buttery toffee in the mix, so whether you like your sweets sharp, soft, boiled or stubbornly stuck to your molars, you are covered.
Some people shop by brand and head straight for Rowntree’s or Maynards Bassetts. Others want a very specific thing and refuse to be distracted until the pear drops, sherbet lemons or Pontefract Cakes are located. This collection works for both. It brings together sweetshop staples, pocket mints, giftable toffee boxes and the sort of retro favourites that rarely stay unopened for long.
Whether you are ordering to Toronto, Halifax, Dartmouth, Ottawa, Calgary, Vancouver, Winnipeg, Bedford, Charlottetown, Saint John or St. John’s, it is easier to get the British sweets you actually want without building a holiday around it. Stock up for film night, keep a few rolls of Polo in the car, or add a bag of fudge and bon bons to a bigger grocery order. The Great British Shop ships across Canada, so the sweetshop run can happen from your sofa instead of a four-ho:contentReference[oaicite:3]{index=3}
There are very few British sweets with a shape as immediately recognisable as the Polo mint. That white ring has been sitting in coat pockets, on n...
View full detailsBuy Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g in Canada Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g is a bag of rhubarb and custard flavour boi...
View full detailsBuy Bonds of London Blackcurrant & Liquorice - 120g in Canada Bonds of London Blackcurrant & Liquorice - 120g is a bag of blackcurrant and ...
View full detailsBuy Barratt Dip Dab - 23g in Canada Barratt Dip Dab - 23g is the classic sherbet-and-lolly setup: lemon flavour sherbet dip with a strawberry flavo...
View full detailsBuy Bonds of London Mint Humbugs - 120g in Canada Bonds of London Mint Humbugs - 120g are mint flavoured boiled sweets with a chewy toffee centre, ...
View full detailsFew British sweets have a stronger claim on childhood memory than the Sherbet Fountain, and if you grew up in the UK, you almost certainly have opi...
View full detailsBuy Bonds of London Butter Mintoes - 120g in Canada Bonds of London Butter Mintoes - 120g are butter and mint flavour hard boiled sweets from Bonds...
View full detailsThere are few British sweets quite as specific as a Polo. Not a mint, exactly, not a sweet, exactly, but that particular white ring with the hole i...
View full detailsBuy Simpkins Barley Sugar - 200g in Canada Simpkins Barley Sugar - 200g are traditional barley sugar drops packed in a classic Simpkins tin. The l...
View full detailsBuy Walker's Nonsuch Assorted Toffees & Chocolate Eclairs - 150g in Canada Walker's Nonsuch Assorted Toffees & Chocolate Eclairs - 150g is ...
View full detailsBuy Walker's Nonsuch English Creamy Toffee - 150g in Canada Walker's Nonsuch English Creamy Toffee - 150g is the sort of British sweet that does n...
View full detailsIf you grew up in Britain, the white ring with the hole in it barely needs an introduction. Polo mints are one of those products that exist in a ve...
View full detailsBuy Simpkins Mandarin & Lime with Ginger - 175g in Canada Simpkins Mandarin & Lime with Ginger - 175g are citrus and ginger hard sweets pa...
View full detailsZesty lemon-flavoured boiled sweets with a fizzy sherbet centre—a timeless, fizzy retro classic perfect for sweet-toothed nostalgia
Clotted cream fudge is one of those British sweets that sounds almost too good to be true until you actually eat a piece and realise it is, in fact...
View full detailsPear 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 w...
View full detailsBonds Mint Imperials a firm, mint-flavoured lozenges—classic, cool, and refreshing
If you grew up in Britain, there is a reasonable chance a tin of Walker's Nonsuch toffee appeared at Christmas, usually accompanied by a small hamm...
View full detailsLiquorice torpedos are one of those British sweets that sit quietly at the back of the penny sweet tray and never need to shout about themselves. B...
View full detailsDairy toffee is one of those British sweets that does not need much introduction, and Bonds Dairy Toffee is exactly the version a lot of people hav...
View full detailsBuy Simpkins Coffee Flavoured Drops - 175g in Canada Simpkins Coffee Flavoured Drops - 175g are coffee-flavoured hard sweets packed in a classic S...
View full detailsThorntons Chewy Toffee is one of those British sweets that turns up every Christmas without anyone questioning it, and yet somehow disappears faste...
View full detailsBuy Simpkins Mulled Wine Travel Sweets - 200g in Canada Simpkins Mulled Wine Travel Sweets - 200g are mulled wine flavour hard sweets packed in a ...
View full detailsThere is a particular kind of mint that does not ease you in gently. Trebor Extra Strong Peppermint Mints are exactly what the name promises, and i...
View full detailsBuy Simpkins Lemon, Honey & Camomile - 175g in Canada Simpkins Lemon, Honey & Camomile - 175g are traditional British hard sweets packed i...
View full detailsBuy Simpkins Hangover Drops - 200g in Canada Simpkins Hangover Drops - 200g are fruit-flavoured hard sweets with ginseng extract, packed in a clas...
View full detailsBuy Barratt Shrimps & Bananas - 150g in Canada Barratt Shrimps & Bananas are one of those British sweets that make no effort to explain th...
View full detailsBarley sugar is one of those British sweets that has been around so long it barely needs to explain itself. Bonds of London Barley Sugar is the cla...
View full detailsWalker's Nonsuch Toffee Twin With Hammer is one of those British Christmas tins that has been turning up under trees and inside hampers for longer ...
View full detailsIf you grew up in Britain, you probably remember Millions from the corner shop, a small tube of tiny chewy sweets that somehow lasted longer than a...
View full detailsThe advantage of being a grown-up is that nobody needs to approve your sweet selection. The disadvantage is that you are now the person explaining why the bag is empty. British sweets remain very good at finding that gap in the arrangements.
We bring boiled sweets, chews, sherbet and old sweetshop favourites to our Halifax shop. Start with the texture you remember, a flavour you have missed, or the one you could never persuade anyone else to swap. There is no need to build the entire pick-and-mix in one go.
Rhubarb & Custard and Blackcurrant & Liquorice offer two very different sweetshop combinations. Mint Humbugs add a minty outside and chewy centre. This is the part of the shelf where choosing a flavour matters.
Buy Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g in Canada Bonds of London Rhubarb & Custard - 130g is a bag of rhubarb and custard flavour boi...
View full detailsBuy Bonds of London Blackcurrant & Liquorice - 120g in Canada Bonds of London Blackcurrant & Liquorice - 120g is a bag of blackcurrant and ...
View full detailsBuy Bonds of London Mint Humbugs - 120g in Canada Bonds of London Mint Humbugs - 120g are mint flavoured boiled sweets with a chewy toffee centre, ...
View full detailsDip Dab gives you a lolly to dip. Sherbet Fountain brings its own familiar ritual. Both are good reminders that a sweet can involve rather more participation than simply opening a bag and taking one out.
Buy Barratt Dip Dab - 23g in Canada Barratt Dip Dab - 23g is the classic sherbet-and-lolly setup: lemon flavour sherbet dip with a strawberry flavo...
View full detailsFew British sweets have a stronger claim on childhood memory than the Sherbet Fountain, and if you grew up in the UK, you almost certainly have opi...
View full detailsWalker’s Nonsuch Creamy Toffee and the assorted toffees with chocolate eclairs look after a different sort of sweet tooth. Choose one familiar flavour or a little variety, depending on how settled your loyalties are.
Buy Walker's Nonsuch English Creamy Toffee - 150g in Canada Walker's Nonsuch English Creamy Toffee - 150g is the sort of British sweet that does n...
View full detailsBuy Walker's Nonsuch Assorted Toffees & Chocolate Eclairs - 150g in Canada Walker's Nonsuch Assorted Toffees & Chocolate Eclairs - 150g is ...
View full detailsWe call them sweets, and we have plenty. Bonds, Barratt, Rowntree’s, Simpkins and Walker’s Nonsuch all come through our Halifax shop and on across Canada, from boiled sweets and sherbet to chews and toffees, so the old corner shop is back within reach.
The Bonds Mint Humbugs listed here are mint-flavoured boiled sweets with a chewy toffee centre. They offer both the hard outer sweet and a softer middle, rather than being plain mints all the way through.
You can, complete with the tube of sharp, fizzy sherbet and the liquorice stick people have argued over for generations. Barratt Dip Dab is there too if you prefer lemon sherbet with a strawberry-flavoured lolly to dip in it.
Walker’s Nonsuch is the name to look for, and we send it from Halifax. English Creamy Toffee is rich, chewy and buttery, the assorted bag adds chocolate eclairs to the mix, and the Treacle Toffees are there for anyone after something darker.
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