SC - So ya wanna Twinkie :)

[Linda Giddings]

Kiriel & Chris wrote:
> 
> Ok; a general translation of some Australian sweets:
> 
> Smarties; multicoloured iced disks of chocolate
> Flakes; chocolate in a compacted flaky sort of stick -boy that is hard
> to describe
> Skittles; tart round fruit candies
> M&Ms; multicoloured iced disks of sugary chocolate or multicoloured iced
> balls of sugary chocolate with peanuts inside
> Crunchies; honeycomb bar covered in chocolate
> Strawberries and Cream; jelly sweet with a 'milk' oval with a red jelly
> berry on top
> timtam; two rectangular chocolate biscuits (cookies) with chocolate
> icing in the middle and completely coated in chocolate (bite off
> opposite corners and use as a straw for butterscotch schnapps, kahlua,
> even tea; fabulous)
> gingernut; VERY hard biscuit (cookie) flavoured with ginger that is
> fabulous dunked in tea
> Snowballs; balls of marshmallow coated in chocolate and rolled in
> coconut
> Chikos; a jelly type sweet in the shape of a little man, kind of
> chocolate flavoured
> Jubes; hard jelly sweets covered in sugar
> Turkish delight; a slab of chewy turkish delight coated in chocolate
> Minties; (do you have minties?) a very chewy mint in a kind of rough
> cube shape
> Snakes; long snake shaped jellies that you can buy in either small
> (10cm) or large (30cm) sizes
> Maltesers; malt balls covered in chocolate
> Jaffas; large balls of chocolate covered in orange flavoured icing
> (traditionally rolled down the wooden aisles of picture theatres I am
> told)
> 
> the reason that I like Smarties over m&ms is that the chocolate in m&ms
> is much more sugary than that in Smarties.  I don't like hersheys kisses
> (which can be found here but not easily) for the same reason; they are
> over sweet and not chocolatey enough for me.
> 
> There. There are of course thousands more that I haven't listed, but eh,
> who cares?
> 
> Kiriel
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When you eat your smarties do you eat the red ones last?  This was from
an old television commercial that used to play in Cancada.  Does anyone
remember ?
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