Bonds of London Garden Fruits - 120g

Garden Fruits live at the old-fashioned end of the British sweet aisle, in the bags you'd spot by the till at a corner shop or newsagent. Not a chocolate bar, not a novelty, just a bag of fruit sweets quietly doing its job.

People in Canada go looking for them because a particular sweet tends to belong to a particular person. A grandparent, a long car journey, a church hall on a Saturday. You can't get the memory back without the bag.

The 120g bag is a pocketable size: easy to share, or easy to pretend you're sharing. Keep it sealed in a cool, dry cupboard and it keeps happily until someone finds it. They earn their place in desk drawers, coat pockets and the bottom of a handbag.

Bonds makes a run of traditional British sweets in bags, and Garden Fruits sit well in a basket alongside other old-school favourites: a box of proper tea, a packet of biscuits, and something for the person who insists they don't eat sweets but will have just the one.