![]() ![]() The procedure is simple: Bite the ends off your bikkie, stick it into the hot beverage of your choice-typically coffee, hot chocolate or (sweet, white) tea-and use it to suck up the liquid like a straw. How are they best enjoyed? The eat-them-all-straight-from-the-pack approach has its fans, but for a true-blue Aussie experience, try a Tim Tam slam. ![]() “Try getting through with 300 packages of Tim Tams.” “You think it's hard getting through customs with nail scissors?” he said on the show. The Tim Tams sold in the US WERE imported from Oz. Just when you thought the J-bomb couldn’t be more appealing to the women of Middle America, he presents every member of the Oprah audience with a package of chocolate cookies. Funny its 2 a packet on sale at Target stores in the US How they make a profit, including shipping. This may or may not have had something to do with Hugh Jackman whipping them out when he appeared on Oprah with Nicole Kidman, while promoting Australia. ![]() They’ve sold like hot cakes since they arrived in November, so much so that even Arnott’s, their parent company, has been taken aback by the scale of their success. Now that they’re available in the United States at Target stores across the country, you can try them, too. In other words, it makes quite an impression.Īustralians have been eating them since the early 1960s (they’re named, curiously enough, for the horse that won the 1958 Kentucky Derby, a race attended by their creator, Australian Ross Arnott), and we continue to eat around 400 million of them a year, which situates them in our national self-image somewhere between beer and kangaroos. It is to regular chocolate cookies what Molotov is to the cocktail. Sold Out Arnotts Tim Tam Chocolate Biscuits (Made in Australia) (Choc Pineapple) 12.95 Arnotts Tim Tam Chocolate Biscuits (Made in Australia) - Pack of Two 15.49 27.99 Arnotts Tim Tam Classics (3 Pack) Original 330gm, White and Caramel 32.98 Arnotts Tim Tam Classics (4 Pack) Original, Double Coat, Caramel and Classic Dark 29.95 14. A finger of chocolate biscuit layered with chocolate crème and enrobed in another layer of chocolate-it’s almost like the love child of a cookie and a chocolate bar. Browse through Gourmet’s Favorite Cookies: 1941-2008. ![]()
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