Why did Australians hide these from the rest of the world?

[Nominal Animal]

I prefer to spend my days alone on a shooting range or doing extreme sports.

Ah, an adrenaline junkie, then.

[coppice]

I don't socialize so it's not a problem for me. I prefer to spend my days alone on a shooting range or doing extreme sports.

Which extreme is this? The hard extreme or the easy extreme?

[bsfeechannel]

Tim Tams are overrated (and overpriced around here).

I indulged myself with a chocolate-covered marshmallow cokie.



With the subsequent teardown.



Cookie, caramel, marshmallow and chocolate.

[Circlotron]

Tim Tams are overrated (and overpriced around here).

I indulged myself with a chocolate-covered marshmallow cokie.

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iPhones have a poop emoji that looks dangerously like those.
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[Psi]

Speaking of being overpriced. What does a box cost you guys in Canada/US/UK?  (Convert to USD so we can compare easily)

There is a "reduced to clear" store 5min walk from me that often has specials on TimTams.
NZ$3 (US$2) for 3 boxes  (The store gets all the factory seconds or old stock getting close to expiration)

NZ$1 (US$0.63) a box is just too cheap to resist.
So my only option is not going to that store very often

Normally they're NZ$3 (US$2) for one box in the supermarket here.

[tautech]

Can you remember when Tim Tams were released here Psi ?
I'm thinking back in the '80's, maybe earlier. 

[james_s]

Oh and cigarettes are only harmful because of all of the tar and nasty chemicals present in the smoke. Pure nicotine cause a similar level of harm as caffeine, so not good, but it doesn't cause cancer. Don't listen to all the BS propaganda about ecigs pushed by the tobacco companies.

I'm not so sure about that. I know a lot of people who smoke cigarettes or vape and nicotine is powerfully addictive, most of them have been "trying to quit" for years but the number of people I've known who succeeded I could count on one hand. My grandmother quit smoking before I was born but told me she still had cravings 20+ years later. Deprive a smoker of nicotine for just a few hours and they start getting antsy and cranky. Caffeine is addictive too although it doesn't seem to be nearly as hard to quit, lots of people cut out caffeine, for a few days they will typically get headaches and feel tired but it's nothing like the withdrawals from more powerful drugs.

Personally I don't really care if someone smokes, drinks, etc as long as they're courteous, don't leave butts all over or smoke  inside or upwind of me and I don't enjoy babysitting drunk people but otherwise it's their life so whatever.

[Psi]

Can you remember when Tim Tams were released here Psi ?
I'm thinking back in the '80's, maybe earlier. 

I remember eating them when i was like 8 years old. So ~30 years ago, in the 80's somewhere

But Wikipedia says "Tim Tam went on to the market in 1964" in Australia
Although i doubt they looked/tasted exactly the same as modern ones.


haha, found 1980's tv ad on youtube

[Halcyon]

If anyone wants some shipped, I'm happy to box some up. They come in these sizes/flavours:

Original Chocolate 200g
Original Chocolate 330g
Chewy Caramel 175g
White Chocolate 165g
Choc Mint 160g
Double Coat Chocolate 200g
Dark Chocolate 200g
Hazelnut & Gooey Caramel 175g
Choc Malt & Sticky Caramel 175g
Vanilla & Chewy Chocolate 175g


All are $3.65 per pack except for the 330g which is $3.60, these prices are just from my local supermarket's online store so can possibly get them cheaper if I go into the store. Woolworths have them as cheap as $2.50 per pack.

UPDATE: I just found the original 200g packs from my local grocer on special for $1.82.

[vk6zgo]

Chocolate is a harmful drug like ethanol, cigarettes or heroine. As a straight edge NS I abhor people who consume it.

This is a heroine:

I can feel the addiction coming on now...

And what does Nova Scotia have to do with this?

[Dave]

One thing I really do miss since my visit in NZ is Whittaker's chocolate. I just can't find a worthy replacement in the local supermarkets.

[Psi]

i could try ship you some, but being chocolate it might melt in the mail.
Also would need to check import restrictions for products containing milk.

Edit: Looks like ya can't import it into Slovenia

Prohibited

• Meat and milk and any items thereof from non-EU countries with the exception of limited amounts from Andorra, Croatia, the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and small amounts of specific products from other countries.

[Richard Crowley]

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=arnotts+tim+tam
Some items are "Thermal Packed"

Added to my latest order from Amazon.

My personal philosophy is:

"Dessert without chocolate is just empty calories."

[Alex Eisenhut]

 It's weird, I went back to the grocery store and could not find any Tim Tams, I couldn't even find the index card on the shelves. There's always Pim's, I guess, but my favorite was pear and they don't have them anymore...

[Mr. Scram]

I don't socialize so it's not a problem for me. I prefer to spend my days alone on a shooting range or doing extreme sports.

It's like people with troll accounts don't even try any more.

[Psi]

Rhett and Link do the Tim Tam Slam

[Ampera]

It isn't an EEVBlog forum post if someone doesn't take a real benign topic, like snack food, and turn it into a debate about how healthy/unhealthy popularly assumed healthy/unhealthy concepts and items are.

[Nominal Animal]

It isn't an EEVBlog forum post if someone doesn't take a real benign topic, like snack food, and turn it into a debate about how healthy/unhealthy popularly assumed healthy/unhealthy concepts and items are.

There, fixed that for you. 

We already have Godwin's law fulfilled (NS), Poe's law, DeMyer's second law, and the law of exclamation, just in this one thread here!!!

[Dave]

i could try ship you some, but being chocolate it might melt in the mail.
Also would need to check import restrictions for products containing milk.

Edit: Looks like ya can't import it into Slovenia

Prohibited

• Meat and milk and any items thereof from non-EU countries with the exception of limited amounts from Andorra, Croatia, the Faeroe Islands, Greenland, Iceland and small amounts of specific products from other countries.

Thanks for the offer!
The prohibition has more to do with fresh meat and dairy products, because they could potentially be host to foreign critters/bacteria/whoknowswhat. Milk derivatives, like chocolate, are perfectly alright.

I have actually searched and found that there is a UK company that imports Whittaker's goodies into Europe, so it wouldn't really make sense to bug you for those. Might have to go on a chocolate shopping spree... 

[bsfeechannel]

It's weird, I went back to the grocery store and could not find any Tim Tams, I couldn't even find the index card on the shelves. There's always Pim's, I guess, but my favorite was pear and they don't have them anymore...

Try the biscuit alley.

[Psi]

Thanks for the offer!
The prohibition has more to do with fresh meat and dairy products, because they could potentially be host to foreign critters/bacteria/whoknowswhat. Milk derivatives, like chocolate, are perfectly alright.

I have actually searched and found that there is a UK company that imports Whittaker's goodies into Europe, so it wouldn't really make sense to bug you for those. Might have to go on a chocolate shopping spree... 

Ok, let me know if they don't have what you want.

[Zero999]

Oh and cigarettes are only harmful because of all of the tar and nasty chemicals present in the smoke. Pure nicotine cause a similar level of harm as caffeine, so not good, but it doesn't cause cancer. Don't listen to all the BS propaganda about ecigs pushed by the tobacco companies.

I'm not so sure about that. I know a lot of people who smoke cigarettes or vape and nicotine is powerfully addictive, most of them have been "trying to quit" for years but the number of people I've known who succeeded I could count on one hand. My grandmother quit smoking before I was born but told me she still had cravings 20+ years later. Deprive a smoker of nicotine for just a few hours and they start getting antsy and cranky. Caffeine is addictive too although it doesn't seem to be nearly as hard to quit, lots of people cut out caffeine, for a few days they will typically get headaches and feel tired but it's nothing like the withdrawals from more powerful drugs.

Yes, nicotine in cigarettes is powerfully addictive, but it's possible the drug in isolation might not be as additive, as it is, when it's mixed with a cocktail of other chemicals found in tobacco.  There is some evidence to suggest vaping isn't as addictive as cigarettes, but more research needs to be done.
https://news.psu.edu/story/337639/2014/12/09/research/e-cigarettes-less-addictive-cigarettes?_ga=1.251108166.1570179940.1430933042

My personal experience backs this up. In the past, I've used nicotine lozenges as a weight loss aid, even though I've never smoked (excepting the odd cigarette at school, due to curiosity and peer pressure). They did reduce my appetite and give me a slight high, once the nausea faded, but I didn't get hooked and quitting was easy.

[GreyWoolfe]

Uh huh. Unless you only buy high-profile very dark chocolate, most of what is contained in "chocolate" is just sugar and fat and very little cocoa...

My chocolate preference is the bittersweet German's chocolate baking bars.

[macboy]

Yes, cocoa is a drug, but there's hardly any of the psychoactive substances in most chocolate confectionery items. To get serious amounts of it, you need really dark, bitter chocolate with >75% cocoa content...

Nonsense, I frequently eat entire 100g bars of 85 to 90% chocolate. Very frequently.

...

Oh.

 

[Richard Crowley]

Some of us savor 100% cocoa, unsweetened chocolate.
In my circle of addicts, anything over 70% is considered "medicinal-grade".