The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #9783   Message #64614
Posted By: murray@mpce.mq.edu.au
20-Mar-99 - 08:28 PM
Thread Name: BS: What are Tim Tams?
Subject: RE: What are Tim Tams?
Helen, They used to have chocolate granitas; but they might have changed the name. I'll look out for that. Make sure you are not confusing them with Weston's "Chocolate Wheatens" ;-}

Speaking of different terminologies: Although I have been in Australia for 25 years, and lived in England for a few years before that, I still can't get used to the expression "Eat your tea."

The first year we were here, we invited some people over for tea and brewed some for them with some bikkies on the side. Of course they came with their bibs and appetite expecting an evening meal. Whenever I was invited out I was in the habit of saying, "Do you mean tea or tea?

Murray