SC - The Tim Tam Suck!

[Sue Clemenger]

OH, man, does that sound good! I've never seen anything like that in the
U.S., although, god knows, my quiet little corner of Montana isn't
exactly the food market capital of the world....Hmmm...are they an
Aussie thing, or could I maybe whine at Canadian friends? Maybe some of
you'd be willing to trade some dark chocolate ones for oh, say grains of
paradise? <g>
- --Maire, who also likes to dunk biscotti in coffee or good sherry

"Craig Jones." wrote:
> 
> >Sue Clemenger wrote:
> >>
> >> Uh, what's a "tim tam?" And why would I drool in envy? And could it be
> >> butter instead of marg.? I loathe margarine!
> >> --Maire
> >
> >I seem to recall a Tim Tam being a small, flat, round sponge-cake
> >thingy, topped first with jam and then with chocolate. Am I even
> >remotely close?
> 
> Not even remotely close.  A tim-tam is 2 flat chocolate biscuits separated by a
> layer of chocolate icing and then the whole biscuit is coated with milk
> chocolate.  About 2 in long, 1 in wide and high.  You can never stop at just 1.
> They also come in a packet of 11 which makes sharing kinda hard....
> 
> I also like to do the 'Tim Tam suck' where you bite the very end off both ends
> of the tim tam, suck coffee up through the biscuit for 5-10secs (like a straw)
> and then loop the sodden mess of biscuit into your mouth.  This is
> undescribeably decedant and makes a horrible mess of the coffee if you suck too
> long and the tim tam falls part into the coffee.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Drake.
> 
> ps. Adamantius, what did you think of my post on the chinese menu plan.  Is she
> do-able?
> 
> >
> >Adamantius, who can buy Tim Tams, Smartees, and all that stuff at the
> >corner deli, in spite of being a US member
> >
> >> Glenda Robinson wrote:
> >> ><snippage>
> >> >> As Gwynydd said - fairy bread must be done on plain white bread with
> >> > margarine, though I've also had success with the whipped butter/oil
> spreads.
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > Now I have a 'hankering' for some fairy bread! And I've just had a Tim Tam
> >> > <insert US member's jealous drooling here> for morning tea.
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