It's funny how you get addicted to your favorite brands of chocolate. (Favourite... for the Aussies.) Before I moved to Oz mine were Nestle's Crunch Bar, Oreo Cookies, Junior Mints and last but definitely not least Reece's Peanut Butter Cups. Which, by the way is Hershey's number one selling chocolate product, who knew? I have traveled to many places in the world and of course it's a must to try all of the chocolate that the different countries offer. Now that I have indulged in the Aussie chocolates I have to report that it is the best that I have ever tasted.
"It is the chocolate pot of gold at the end of the sugar rainbow here "Down Under."
Okay, so here's the run-down of what to look for online if you live in the U.S.A... Cadbury Dairy Milk, Crunchies, Time-Out, Cherry Ripe, Picnic, Violet Crumble, Rocky Road, even chocolate covered black licorice which sounds weird but is sheer heaven! It might be kind of "exy" (expensive) to buy online but this stuff beats Belgian or Godiva chocolate hands down. Now, my American chocolate seems "bodgy" (of inferior quality to me.) If you know my Dad then you know that he is a chocoholic too. One time on a trip home he took no joke... 80 kilos of Cadbury chocolate back with him. (That's about 320 bars.) Good Onya Dad! (Well done.) He had to bribe a couple of the ticket agents with the chocolate to let him through because he was so overweight, the chocolate I mean, not Dad!
It was hard to give up Oreo's until I discovered Arnott's Tim Tams, the most indulgent biscuit in the world! What is a Tim Tam? A Tim Tam is a chocolate "bikkie" (cookie) It is made of two layers of chocolate malt biscuit, separated by a light chocolate cream filling and coated in a sinful layer of textured chocolate. There are many varieties but we love the Double Coat Tim Tam which is more stable and won't collapse. This is "good oil" (useful information) for an yummy activity at the end of my blog. A 7-ounce package of Tim Tams contains 11 biscuits which is the only major flaw with Tim Tams because it's not an even number and you have to fight for the last one! Remind me to write to Arnott's about that...
Coincidentally, my Aussie mates, did you know that Tim Tams were named after a horse that won the Kentucky Derby in 1958? Ross Arnott attended the derby that day and thought, "What a ripper! The perfect name for my new biscuit!" According to Arnott's, 1 in every 2 households contains "a packet" of Tim Tams. One packet? Who are they kidding? We buy them by the case for our house... Around 35 million packs are sold each year - that's nearly 400 million biscuits!
Americans, drop those Oreos now!
Your milk dunking days have ended!
Introducing The Tim Tam Slam: the practice of drinking a hot beverage, e.g. tea, coffee, hot chocolate, Milo, chai, whatever, through a Tim Tam biscuit. It's that beautiful little bikkie right below where I'm typing... ahhh, dark chocolate... Don't you wish you could just grab it right off of the screen?
Bite off opposite corners of your favorite Tim Tam flavor. (One on the top left corner and one on the top right corner.) Remember, I told you that the Double Coated Tim Tams are more stable but if you are a risk taker - then choose the "Ridgy Didge" (original) flavor. Next, submerge one bitten off corner into your drink of choice and suck through the biscuit. The crispy biscuit inside will soften and the outer chocolate layer will begin to melt. It's best if the inside of the biscuit stays in tact long enough for you to drink your beverage. You can refrigerate them which hardens the outside coating and makes them last longer. I can never wait that long. Besides, I like to live dangerously.
On Australia Day in 2004, 200 people in a pub in England and about 30,000 people throughout the United Kingdom attempted to set a world record using Tim Tams for tea-sucking. Tea? Yuck, hot chocky is the best... but the Brit's do love their tea!
Now that I have drooled all over my Mom's keyboard... I feel the need for a Tim Tam Slam... Hoo-Roo! (See you later)
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