"the name of a candy bar-like thing she discovered when she was in Melbourne for a study abroad. It was sort of like one of those long, rectangular "honeycomb"-type wafer cookies and had a chocolate coating."

If you really meant TimTams (the wafer cookies things), they used to just come in just one flavour for years, but now in many different flavours, and now even 'specials' are made - the recently released pink coloured and strawberry flavoured ones for 'Breast Cancer Day', for example. There were even 'multi-dipped' versions.

The 'big rush effect' with the originals was to nibble off just enough of the coating at each end (even just a corner) to reach the biscuit, then dip one end in a cup of coffee, and quickly suck up enough coffee to fill the biscuit, then get it all into your mouth before it fell apart...

They now also come in single packs as a candy type thing - but used to originally come only in a apack of a dozen or more.

They had a big advertising campaign used the old joke about the genie with the three wishes - the first wish is for a pack that never runs out - then the next wishes....


However, I first thought you might have been talking about the old Aussie favourite 'Violet Crumble' - now with several other named imitators (including cheapie 'noname' ones), which is a chocolate covered honeycomb bar - mentioned above.

Another old favourite is Musk flavoured Lifesavers. Musk flavour was a big hit in many sweets when I was a kid - most importantly including the famous 'Musk Sticks'...

Mnay old Aussie favourites have been bought by overseas companies who have killed them off, renamed or rebranded the products - the 'Wonka' brand is an unfortunate example, being unfortunately close to the line of one rude Aussie expression... At least they haven't renamed PC wise 'Redskins' as yet...