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Nestlé Dairy Box - 160g imported British grocery product available in Canada

Nestlé Dairy Box - 160g

Christmas pre-order
$16.99 - $16.99
$16.99
$16.99 - $16.99
$16.99
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Christmas pre-orderExpected to ship late October to early November

Coming home for Christmas

This one is sailing over from the UK right now, packed in with a whole container of British Christmas treats.

Order now and we'll set one aside with your name on it. The moment the container is unloaded in Halifax, we start packing, and the earliest orders go out first.

Got other goodies in your cart? We'll keep the lot together and send it in one parcel, so it all lands on your doorstep at once.

Then watch your inbox: we'll email you the moment it's on its way. That's when Christmas properly starts.
 
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About Nestlé Dairy Box

About Nestlé Dairy Box

Every house has a rule about who gets the last chocolate in the box. Nobody has ever followed it. Nestlé Dairy Box is the box that started those arguments, and it is still starting them.

Lift the lid and there they are, a neat spread of assorted chocolates, each in its own little spot. Everyone has a favourite. Everyone claims not to mind which one they get. Everyone is lying.

It is the box that turned up at your nan's, came out for birthdays and sat on the arm of the sofa through the whole film. One look at it and you are back there, eyeing the one you were saving.

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Frequently asked questions about Nestlé Dairy Box

Q: Is this the UK Dairy Box?

A: It is, the British box you remember, and it ships from within Canada, so it has not had to clear customs on its way to you.

Q: How big is the box?

A: It is the 160g box. Enough to pass round a table once, maybe twice if people are being polite.

Q: Does it make a good gift?

A: Very much so, especially for someone who grew up with it. Hand it over and watch them go straight for their old favourite.

Q: How should I store it?

A: Somewhere cool and dry, out of the sun and away from heat. Lid on, and ideally out of sight of whoever ate the last one.

More about Nestlé Dairy Box

Dairy Box belongs to that very British habit of boxed chocolates as social glue. It is the box you take when you visit, the thank you for the neighbour who fed the cat, the thing that appears after Sunday dinner without anyone asking.

People in Canada go looking for it by name because the name is the memory. It is not just any box of chocolates; it is the one that sat on the sideboard at home, and finding it again feels like bumping into an old friend in the queue.

This is the 160g box: big enough to go round a table, small enough that nobody feels obliged to save it for best. Keep it somewhere cool and dry, away from the radiator and the sunny windowsill, and put the lid back on properly, because a half-open box is an invitation.

Nestlé makes a good chunk of the British sweet aisle, so Dairy Box tends to travel with company: a KitKat or two, an Aero, a bag of Smarties for the car. Add a box of proper tea and you have an afternoon sorted.

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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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The story of Nestlé Dairy Box

By Aaron A.  |  October 13, 2026

One each, and choose carefully

A box of chocolates on the coffee table is a test of character. You get one. You take ages choosing, and then an uncle you barely know leans over and takes the one you had your eye on. Rowntree's launched Dairy Box in the 1930s as a boxed chocolate assortment, and lifting the lid still does the same thing in any front room: the chatter stops, hands hover, and everyone pretends they are not counting.

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A York firm with a sweet tooth

Rowntree's traces its roots to a cocoa and chocolate business that Henry Isaac Rowntree bought in York in 1862. In the 1930s the firm launched Dairy Box, Kit Kat (1935, when it began life as 'Chocolate Crisp', a four-finger wafer bar, and was renamed Kit Kat within a couple of years) and Smarties (1937). Not a bad decade's work. Kit Kat is still produced at Nestlé's factory on Haxby Road in York. Have a break. You know the rest.

Meanwhile, in West Yorkshire

Mackintosh's of Halifax, West Yorkshire, launched Quality Street in 1936 as an assortment of wrapped toffees and chocolates in a tin, and took the name from a J. M. Barrie play. In 1969 Mackintosh's merged with Rowntree's to form Rowntree Mackintosh. Then in 1988 Nestlé bought the lot, bringing Kit Kat, Quality Street, Smarties, Rolo and Aero into its British portfolio. Quite the family to marry into.

The Swiss end of the story

Nestlé itself goes back to Henri Nestlé, a German-born pharmacist who settled in Vevey, Switzerland, and developed a powdered milk-based infant food, Farine Lactée, in 1867. The modern company was formed in 1905, when his firm merged with the Anglo-Swiss Condensed Milk Company. None of which matters much once the box is open and there is exactly one left. Nobody wants to be seen taking it. Everybody wants it.

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