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Warning! Food related postJust received....one package from Australia....air mailed to Buffalo, NY. Contents of said package? [pink]Musk Sticks and Musk flavored Life Savers[/pink]! Carefully opening package...gotta try a Musk Stick first. Looks just like the package in the link we had in the earlier thread. http://wordsmith.org/board/showflat.pl?Cat=&Board=announcements&Number=51999&page=2&view=collapsed&sb=5 Hmmmmmm....smells musky. Oh, yeah, they are musk. About 5 inches long and pink. The consistency of a circus peanut. A bit soft, not hard. Sweet, but not a flavor I can describe. I can see why they say they are an acquired taste! The Life Savers are not clear like a cherry Life Saver, but like a cloudy pink Life Saver. Both leave a very strange after taste, but seem to get sweeter the longer you suck on them. Anyway, wanted you all to experience them as close to first hand as you could! Sorry, they will be gone by Wordapalooza! The longer I taste them, the more I like them! And I don't think the open package will last for another three months. And if you have any notion to try to get them from an Aussie friend...they were postmarked on March 26 and I got them today. They came airmail. One package musk sticks and four rolls of Life Savers in a padded bag and cost $11.50 Australian to mail to me. And no, they did not come from a member of AWAD.
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OmiGod....you got a FOOD PACKAGE from AUSTRALIA! You are sooooo lucky.....But wade a minnit.....It didn't include Tim Tams. How remiss of your friends! Ask them to put a package in the next time they feel charitable and will send you a care package. The best choccie biccies in the WORLD!
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Tim Tam won the Kentucky Derby in 1958.
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Stalesy! You did it! You dirty dog you!
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From my oiriginal post: And no, they did not come from a member of AWAD.W O'N says: Stalesy! You did it!He got our tastes whet for them...he didn't send them tho! Now, mod god says: It didn't include Tim Tams...The best choccie biccies in the WORLD!Chocolate? Do tell! And can you mail me some? Pretty please? I never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like!
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Ah yes. The renowned Tim Tam Slam, aka the Chocolate Orgasm.
Bite off opposing corners of biscuit; dip in tea (or hot beverage of choice - some lushes prefer port but I could not make this work to my satisfaction!) and suck until you feel the tea coming through. Lob whole thing in mouth and feel it dissolve there. Aaaahhhhhhhhhh.....
The first time I learned about this was from a tour guide in Far North Queensland, who demonstrated the trick for our group. Others looked dubious but I boldly stepped forward to be the first to try it. When I did, the look on my face made everyone else on the tour lunge for the Tim Tam packet....
Angel, if you are a chocolate lover ("if?"!!), you MUST get some! For some reason best known to the makers of Tim Tams (and Life Savers, who do the same ridiculous thing), they come in packets of....11. So hoard them, or share them with 10 of your closest friends. (Why don't they - and Life Savers - make packets of 12? divisible by 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, and 12? so much fairer and more equitable and peace-keeping and all them thar things that make the world a better place!)
Alas, I do not have any, nor do I know of where in Canada one might buy them - apart from somewhere in Vancouver. I couldn't resist popping in to the Thorn Tree on the Lonely Planet site last night, and there was a discussion going on about how/where to get Tim Tams in Canada. Someone found them in Van. I asked her where; if she has posted the info there I'll put it here, should anyone else be innerested....
Ah, sweet Tim Tams, ambrosial biccies/straws.....Mmmmm.
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Ah yes. The renowned Tim Tam Slam, aka the Chocolate Orgasm....Angel, if you are a chocolate lover ("if?"!!), you MUST get some! ....nor do I know of where in Canada one might buy them ...
OMG!!!!!!!!!!!! If? Yes! In Canada? I have connections! Will let you know! [Angel's in heaven-e]
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TimTams are very good, but not unique. In England they have 'Penguins' which are in essence the same thing. Australia is the Mecca for junk food, though: Strawberries 'n' Creams, Bananas, Pineapples, Ruffles/Samboy Chips, Kool Mints, Redskins, Chocos, Choc Milk, the list goes on!
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...packets of 11... Why don't they - and Life Savers - make packets of 12?
Class Cynic checking in here.
I suspect they _did_ once upon a time, and then the downsize-the-product-to-save-money process picked up speed. There was only so much they could make the objects smaller without inciting consumer revolt, and eventually the number-in-a-package had to be reduced too, and here we are.
Anyone seen a one-pound can of coffee lately? Or maybe a one-pound jar of peanut butter? LOL. I stopped counting at 15, er, 14, no, make that 13, no, 12 ounces. Or is it eleven or ten by now? I know, I know, and my father used to relate how milk used to cost eight cents a quart, and I would roll my eyes...Lessons of History again, I guess
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