BS: What are Tim Tams?

Subject: RE: BS: What are Tim Tams?
From: GUEST,tam the bam frae saltcoats scotland
Date: 05 Jan 03 - 04:16 AM

Tim Tams Guest, are biscuits, they look like the biscuit Penguins.

As for Condoms I tried one last night, by God it tasted rotten, however I found out that they make great balloons.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: GUEST
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 06:36 AM

Tim Tams?? are u sure that you havn't misread someones handwriting and the words are actualy 'Jim Jams' which would of course, translate to pyjamas.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: GUEST,COCO
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 06:02 AM

I'LL write about 'TIM TAM'S later australia's favourite chocolate biscuit...                           
          John Gray/Australia...You'll be careful not to do your 'LOLLY' "That's okay 'SWEETIE'" I'll keep quiet about the ))))))condoms((((((....... I'd rather have them than 'TIM TAM'S' they may not taste as good,but last longer and are more fun 2 share. I did say I'd keep quiet about condoms,>>>>>>>just can't help myself<<<<<<<                COCO

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: GUEST,tam the bam frae Saltcoats Scotland
Date: 04 Jan 03 - 05:02 AM

Thanks for that, Mate.

I'm on holiday from Scotland and I'm staying in Australia and maybe they think that I'm strange.

So G'day to one and all

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Bob Bolton
Date: 03 Jan 03 - 09:54 PM

G'day Tam the bam frae Saltcoats Scotland ... and Sandra,

I have come back slowly from Gulgong - I have friends living at a comfortable altitude in the Blue Mountains ... and no intentions of re-immersing myself in Sydney's heat any sooner than necessary!

Despite cheese being a minimal part of my diet, these days, I recall, the wrapper on the Dairy Farmers Co.'s Coon Cheese saying that Edward William Coon patented a unique cheesemaking process in 1926 ... so his cheese still bears his name.

I have never bothered with "Nobby's" beer nuts ... and presume it passed for a flash of brilliance at the ad agency.

Regards,

Bob Bolton

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Mary in Kentucky
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 09:52 AM

LEJ, I'm glad to see that you knew who Tim Tam was (even though your wife didn't!) I've managed to live on Venetian Way and Gallant Fox Run, and my best friend lived on Venetian Way in another city.

Alice, I know all about Dr. Pepper, 10, 2 and 4. I still prefer it to Coca Cola.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Dave Bryant
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 07:14 AM

BTW Alistair, I don't think anyone's mentioned:

Youngs (and it's Winter Warmer time!), Shepherd Neame, Harveys, Adnams,
or some of my lesser known favourites like McMullen's (Hertford) and Ridleys's (Chelmsford), Charles Wells (Bedford), and Larkins (Chiddingstone, Kent).

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 02 Jan 03 - 06:44 AM

Maybe we can contact the Coon company?

sandra

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Helen
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 08:23 PM

I heard that Coon was the surname of the man who made the cheese.

Helen

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 07:10 AM

If my memory serves me, Coon cheese derives it's name from the town where it is made/was originally made. It might be Coonabaraban, if it's in dairy country & not way outback. I don't have an Australian atlas, only a tiny little primary school version of a world atlas so I can't check it out.

I'll send this thread to Bob Bolton who must be back from Gulgong Folk Festival by now.

I've really enjoyed this thread - even tho I'm not a sweet tooth (& hate the smell & taste of coffee)

sandra (who never studied geography at school)

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: BusbitterfraeScotland
Date: 01 Jan 03 - 06:47 AM

If Tim Tams are biscuts then why do the Aussies call a certain cheese COON and they also like to eat NOBBY'S NUTS.

A very strange place is Australia.

And not very PC at all.

Tam

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Helen
Date: 31 Dec 02 - 07:52 PM

refresh

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: JennieG
Date: 10 Oct 00 - 01:44 AM

I like the dark chocolate Tim Tams best.......ooooooh the other day while at a shopping centre (mall to all youse outside Oz!) I saw a chocolate fountain - that's right; it was warm melting runny chocolate continuously cascading down over the sides of a tall bowl. I want one!!!!
Cheers
JennieG

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Bugsy
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 08:19 PM

Just like Penguin Biscuits in the UK.

Cheers

Bugsy

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From:
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 07:47 AM

Tim Tams are wonderful. They are a kind of chocolate biscuit sold in Australia.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: GUEST,John Gray/Australia
Date: 09 Oct 00 - 03:49 AM

Crikey, I made a rather innocuous comment about Tim Tams in the previous thread on condoms ( on having tried neither )and it elicited 90 responses. I'll have to be careful not to do my lolly

JG / FME

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: WyoWoman
Date: 06 Oct 00 - 08:16 PM

Thanks, Shamb ...

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: The Shambles
Date: 06 Oct 00 - 08:09 PM

Because someone asked................

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: alison
Date: 31 Mar 99 - 08:54 PM

LOL

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: AlistairUK
Date: 31 Mar 99 - 01:53 PM

I've heard about you northerners...your bloody hard and cruel. Well I have some chocolate hobnobs on the way and I shall post a really long posting describing each and evry moment of the whole packet. BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: alison
Date: 31 Mar 99 - 06:40 AM

Awwwwww Alastair,

of course I like you.... I just wanted to share a special moment with you...... I wasn't trying to rub it in ......

**grin**

you believe me don't you??????

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: AlistairUK
Date: 31 Mar 99 - 05:49 AM

Alison *sob* why are you doing this to me? *sob*. I thought you liked me *gulp* *whinge*

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: alison
Date: 31 Mar 99 - 12:56 AM

Had enough torture yet alastair?

Because I'm sitting here in Oz.. happily munching on a packet of Maltesers... well when I say munching I'm nibbling off the chocolate then letting the honeycomb just melt slowly...............mmmmmmmmmmmmmm hahahahahahahaha

That'll teach you to mention chocolate hob nobs.......

Slainte

alison

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: AlistairUK
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 10:51 AM

Bert, even though I'm not actually reading this thread anymore after the torture and abuse I have suffered at the hands of my fellow Catters, I will say this. At the time that the local currency (the real) was in good nick, you could buy all sorts of imported goodies. One of them for a while was beer in cans, and the canned stuff was ten times better than the local stuff...Newcastle Brown...i spent a fortune stocking up on it. *sigh*

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Bert
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 10:14 AM

AlistairUK,

There is a vast difference between the stuff brewed locally and the muck that you get in bottles.

Generally speaking it is always better to go with a locally brewed beer. Even when I was in Iran, the local brew called 'Etehadiah' was better than the imported stuff. Beer just doesn't travel well.

Bert.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: AlistairUK
Date: 30 Mar 99 - 06:20 AM

I refuse to read this thread anymore unless you all stop this childish torture...Oh and by the way I would move to another planet to avoid any beer with Whitbread on the label :op~

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Kathleen Morgain
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 07:39 PM

Hall and Woodhouse:

Badger!

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Lonesome EJ
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 06:52 PM

or Gold Label,Ringwood, Strong Country,Burtonwood Dark,Royal Oak, Hardy,Adnams Broadside,Old Bailey,Riding Dark Mild,Castlemaine,Badger Best,Tinner's Ale,Hicks, Duchy,Marstons' Pedigree....I'll have a pint of each!

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Bert
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 05:31 PM

Whitbread Trophy

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: AlistairUK
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 03:58 PM

Pete: You die You Die you bastard aaaaarrgggggggggH!!!!

sob sob sob sob sob sob sob Banks and Taylor, Fullers, Ind Coop sob sob sob sob

Alistair in a pathetic, wet little heap at the foot of his computer console.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Pete M
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 03:36 PM

Alistair,

Theakstons, John Smiths, Boddingtons, Tetleys, Speckled Hen, Oooooh I have no shame.

Pete M

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Bert
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 10:18 AM

Cuilionn,

There is an English shop in Downtown Colorado Springs where they stock a varying selection of Cadbury's bars and also Fry's Turkish Delight amongst other goodies.

They also serve afternoon tea with clotted cream.

Bert.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: AlistairUK
Date: 29 Mar 99 - 08:09 AM

The Shambles

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! You Toerag, how dare you, how dare you go on about tasteful, wonderful delicious ale. Oh you fiend you Torquemada, you'll be going on about Guiness next. How can you do this to an ex-pat?
*SOB*

Alistair (softly crying into his extremely watery and about as much tatse as a limp rag brazilian lager type drink)

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: bseed(charleskratz)
Date: 28 Mar 99 - 04:42 PM

Involved in other threads, I passed over this one for a few days before checking it out today: In my ignorance I supposed a Tim Tam was sort of a fey bodhran, with spangles and ribbons...and Catspaw, your bit of information has given new meaning to the phrase "shaped charge." And how did they determine who got the job of filtering out the explosive, whoever grumbled about the taste? --seed

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Kathleen Morgain
Date: 28 Mar 99 - 12:54 PM

OK, I'm stretching it a bit with the rhyme there, but I do like to bake - crullers are a norwegian kind of doughnut, deep fried sweet egg batter, with all the guilty pleasures and calories of the grits so extolled here, but with the additional quality of actual flavor. (This is really a dig at my husband, who insists that grits are wonderful, but only obtainable in parts of the South with long memories)

Forgive me a short Fullers story. When the verbal sparring between my Mother and Dad used to get intense, the subject would turn to English/Irish relations, My Mother taking up the side of the Brits. My father lost no opportunity to make pointed remarks about English people.

A couple of years ago, I got my Dad to go on a trip to Ireland. I deliberately had us fly into London, to stay for a day before we went on. I found a pub that serves 'Pride on the handpump, and even old Dad was forced to admit that the English have their good points.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: The Shambles
Date: 28 Mar 99 - 12:12 PM

It is strange and believe me I am not going out of my way to upset people, but I went out last night and had three pints of Fullers London Pride, for this first time in about 20 years. It was a nice mellow moment.

It used to be my usual tipple in my youth in West London. Fuller, Smith and Turner was the full name of the brewery, but it was known locally as Fuller, SHIT and Turner.

Kathleen

What are crullers?

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Kathleen Morgain
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 10:06 PM

Marmite, you can keep

with your bubble and squeak

but I'd make you some crullers

for a pint of your Fullers

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Helen
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 07:34 PM

The Shambles,

I'm with you. My sister could keep one Easter egg for a week when we were kids. I could eat mine in one minute flat.

Helen

P.S. You must be on the seafood diet, See Food and Eat It.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 08:32 AM

On the subject of things being sent through the post;

One of the first things I noticed when first visiting Shetland homes, after moving there in the 70s, was a wizened, dried-up piece of dead sheep (usually a leg), hanging up over the range or fireplace. This unappetising object was a salted and dried piece of meat called 'Reesit' Mutton. It was usually made into a salty 'tattie' soup and served halfway during a dance to re-establish any thirst that had been lost and to enable proceedings to go on until complete exhaustion set in, usually the very early hours of the next morning.

This was such a delicacy, that their was a great demand from Shetland exiles (of which there are many throughout the world). Some friends of ours decided that they would expand their business to try and satisfy this demand and set up a mail order business.

They had an initial problem when sending one of their first consignments through the post. The parcel, having received some rough treatment had broken open and they received a note from the Royal Mail. The writer not being aware of the natural appearance of 'Reesit' Mutton, went on to say that: "We sorry to report that your parcel was damaged in transit and that the contents had 'gone off' and had to be destroyed".

Which was a shame but it does say a lot about the natural appearance of this acquired taste.

RECIPE SUGGESTION: Serve with 'grits'?

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: The Shambles
Date: 27 Mar 99 - 07:51 AM

Too late I'm afraid............. The substance does not have a long life in my household, I see it I eat it. "He who hesitates etc", "strike while the iron is hot", and so on.

I can't stand those people who hoard it and make a bar last forever, eating a square a day and I don't think it's stealing if I eat it and it's not mine. I think it is my duty to step in and put the bar out of it's misery.

Love from The Shambles, who is fairly generous with everything except chocolate.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: alison
Date: 26 Mar 99 - 11:27 PM

well in that case.....

have you any Galaxy left Shambles?

slainte

alison

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: AlistairUK
Date: 26 Mar 99 - 12:40 PM

whatabout bedfordshire clanger...clutey pudding. And I have never had a dorset knob...*fnarr fnarr*

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From:
Date: 26 Mar 99 - 05:25 AM

Alison, I don't think customs will interfere with the sending of chocolates--but my father-in-law once sent me something he was sure I couldn't get in Australia (peanut brittle). The packet didn't fit in the mailbox so the postman left it on the ground. It was summer and the ants were rife....

Murray

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Cuilionn
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 09:23 PM

Blastit! NAE thanks tae ye, ma lang-simmerin' desires hae been awakenit. Here I sit, in th' middle o' th' God-forsaken Amurrican West, wi' a passionate desire for a Cadbury's Wunderbar an' some splenditly dreadfu' rose-flavour Turkish Delicht. I jalouse there's nae a single source for either o' these items in th' entire state o' Colorado...

Aff tae ransack th' meagre stores o' ma grad schuil kitchen for some puir substitute,

--Cuilionn

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: The Shambles
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 06:40 PM

Anybody like Dorset Knobs?

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Penny
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 05:38 PM

With all those sheep? And I challenge anyone to top the cholesterol content of SPP, suet and butter both.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Pete M
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 05:36 PM

What about spotted dick, and suet pudding with treacle? Should keep even you cholesterol freaks quiet for a bit.

Just can't get proper suet here.

Pete M

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Penny
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 04:04 PM

It's got a bit in common with that stick.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Bert
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 03:36 PM

Gawd, I don't remember that one.

Had an Aunt once who used to make Figgy Obbin.

Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
From: Penny
Date: 25 Mar 99 - 03:34 PM

How about Sussex Pond Pudding, then?