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Chocolate digestives, custard creams and zero interest in crumb-free self-control.
Biscuits are rarely bought with complete honesty. People come for one pack of digestives, then remember Hobnobs, shortbread, custard creams and whatever Fox’s creams have been coming up with lately.
These are the packets that get opened with tea, with guests, in the car, or five minutes after saying they are being saved. Worth keeping a few in, especially the classics, because the urge for a chocolate digestive is remarkably unhelpful when the tin is down to crumbs and false confidence.
British biscuits and cookies have a useful way of making an ordinary cup of tea feel like an occasion. Rich Tea, Hobnobs, chocolate digestives and sandwich creams all have their own following. Holding a committee meeting about which packet to open is optional, though surprisingly common.
This collection covers the biscuit shelf people actually go looking for, not a vague version of it. You will find McVitie’s favourites like Digestives, Hobnobs and Rich Tea, Fox's creams, Cadbury biscuit bars, Jacob’s crackers, Walkers shortbread and the sort of sweet-and-salty extras that usually end up in the basket once the browsing starts. Whether you are ordering chocolate digestives to Halifax, filling a care package for Toronto, or adding a few packs of shortbread to a box headed for Vancouver, this page keeps the familiar names in one place.
The core of the range is what most people search for first: milk chocolate digestives, dark chocolate digestives, Hobnobs, custard creams, bourbons, malted milk, shortbread fingers, rich tea and the biscuit bars that somehow disappear faster than the supposedly exciting stuff. Cadbury, McVitie’s, Fox's and Border do most of the heavy lifting here, covering both the everyday packet and the one that never survives the first evening.
This collection is not only about sweet biscuits. Jacob’s crackers, cream crackers and Mini Cheddars give it a savoury side too, which is helpful when the order starts with chocolate Hobnobs and then suddenly develops opinions about cheese boards. It makes the range more useful, and a lot closer to the biscuit aisle people actually remember.
For anyone searching for British biscuits in Canada without settling for substitutes that miss the point, this is a sensible place to start. Orders ship from Canada, so it is easier to stock up whether you are in Ottawa, Calgary, Edmonton or Montréal, or sending a biscuit rescue to Victoria, Saint John, Kitchener, Dartmouth, Charlottetown or St. John’s. It is a practical page for keeping the favourites on hand, and for quietly adding the pack you were trying not to think about.
Marks and Spencer biscuits have a particular reputation in British households, and the M&S Milk Chocolate Oat Crunch earns its place in that co...
View full detailsCrunchy biscuits with a distinctive malt flavour, perfect for dunking in tea or coffee.
M&S Milk Chocolate Digestives are one of those British biscuits that people do not really need to explain to each other. If you grew up in the ...
View full detailsNobody 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 detailsM&S biscuits have a particular reputation in British households, and the All Butter Pistachio Almond Biscuits sit firmly in the category of thi...
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 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 detailsShortbread in a tin is a very specific kind of British confidence, and M&S All Butter Shortbread in its Sentry tin is exactly the sort of thing...
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 detailsThere is something quietly satisfying about a shortbread tin that looks exactly like a shortbread tin should. The M&S All Butter Chocolate Chip...
View full detailsM&S All Butter Fruity Flapjack Cookies sit in that satisfying middle ground between a proper flapjack and a biscuit, which is exactly the sort ...
View full detailsA chocolate biscuit selection from M&S is exactly the kind of thing that disappears faster than anyone planned for. The M&S Outrageously Ch...
View full detailsWhite chocolate biscuits from M&S are the sort of thing that disappear from the tin faster than anyone is willing to admit. The M&S Outrage...
View full detailsDark chocolate biscuits from M&S are the sort of thing that disappear from the tin before anyone admits to eating them, and the Outrageously Ch...
View full detailsThere is a particular kind of British biscuit that does not bother pretending to be anything other than what it is. M&S Outrageously Chocolatey...
View full detailsChocolate orange biscuits occupy a very specific corner of the British biscuit world, and M&S has always taken that corner rather seriously. Th...
View full detailsA 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 biscuit that does not try very hard to impress you, and that is precisely why it works. M&S Shorties Shor...
View full detailsM&S Sicilian Lemon and White Chocolate Cookies sit in that particular corner of the biscuit world where proper ingredients meet the kind of fla...
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 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 detailsThere is a particular kind of British biscuit that sits somewhere between a biscuit and a cookie and refuses to apologise for it. M&S All Butte...
View full detailsA cup of tea without a biscuit feels like a meeting that could have been an email. There is something missing, and everybody knows it. Our British biscuit range brings together the oaty crunch of Hobnobs, the cream-filled regulars and the packets that get opened before the kettle has finished.
We send orders from our Halifax shop across Canada. Start with the sort of biscuit you actually want: something for dunking, something with a filling, or a chocolate-coated excuse to stop what you are doing.
Original Hobnobs for the oat fans, Ginger Nuts for a little more bite. Both are familiar tea break company. How long either spends in the mug is a matter for your own household rules.
Buy McVities Hobnobs Original - 255g in Canada McVities Hobnobs Original - 255g is the sort of biscuit packet that rarely stays full for very long....
View full detailsBuy McVitie's Ginger Nuts - 250g in Canada McVitie's Ginger Nuts - 250g are not here for a quiet little biscuit experience. They are crunchy, prop...
View full detailsCustard Creams and Bourbons have been dividing biscuit tins for years. Jammie Dodgers bring raspberry to the argument. Pick the filling you like rather than hoping the assorted packet has enough of your favourite.
Everyone has a method. Some dunk, some twist the top off and scrape the middle out with their teeth, and some just eat it whole and get quietly jud...
View full detailsIf you grew up in Britain, Jammie Dodgers need no introduction. That distinctive round shortcake biscuit with the jam-filled heart cut-out is the s...
View full detailsMilk Chocolate Hobnobs and Mint Penguins turn an ordinary biscuit break into something a little more deliberate. Find a plate if you like. We will understand if the packet does not get that far.
Buy McVitie's Milk Chocolate Hobnobs 262g in Canada McVitie's Milk Chocolate Hobnobs 262g are not especially subtle, which is part of the point. O...
View full detailsBuy McVitie's Penguin Mint 172.2g in Canada McVitie's Penguin Mint 172.2g is the sort of biscuit bar that rarely lasts as long as people claim it ...
View full detailsThe range includes McVitie’s Hobnobs, Ginger Nuts, Custard Creams and Bourbons, plus Jammie Dodgers and chocolate biscuit bars. They all go out from our Halifax shop, ready to restock the biscuit tin and keep the kettle busy.
Custard Creams have a vanilla-flavoured biscuit and custard-style cream centre. Bourbons are chocolate sandwich biscuits with a cocoa cream filling. That usually settles the question, unless you are the person who buys both.
A shortcake biscuit filled with sweet raspberry jam, and a British favourite from the first school lunchbox onwards. It sits very nicely next to a cup of tea and a person who claims to be having just the one.
What most Canadians would call cookies, only built for dunking in tea. Think oaty Hobnobs, crunchy Ginger Nuts, cream-filled Custard Creams and Bourbons, and Penguins in their milk chocolate flavour coat, all going out from our Halifax shop to kettles across the country.
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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.
