Tim Tams have finally arrived in Canada..

Alex Blair (RIP) · #1 13-01-06, 14:23

I contactedArnotts In OZ to find out where I could get some Tim Tams and this is what I got back...

Hi Alex,

Thank you for your enquiry regarding the availability of Arnott's
Biscuits
in Canada.

We're delighted to confirm that three varieties of Tim Tam biscuits -
Arnott's Original, Arnott's Chewy Caramel and Arnott's Double Coat -
are
now available across western Canada in Safeway and Overweitea.

Thank you again for your enquiry.

Regards,
Jane
Consumer Contact Representative..

And Ontarioites think the West is backward rednecks???
Seems that the classy part is west of the Ontario border..Time to emmigrate back out west....Tim Tams...oil....no salt on the roads...

Safeways is big in the west..

Stewart Loy · #2 13-01-06, 14:25

Quote:

Originally posted by Alex Blair

Safeways is big in the west..

Alex,

You better be careful, or else you will be BIG around the middle!

hahaha

Stewart

Alex Blair (RIP) · #3 13-01-06, 14:31

Quote:

Originally posted by Stewart Loy
Alex,

You better be careful, or else you will be BIG around the middle!

hahaha

Stewart

Hi Stew..
I see Machine Gun Mary is on the job ...to have you out of bed this early is amazing..!!!
For a Left Marker you have a ways to go your self to gain that enviable "Tall and slim" stature..but your sense of humour is still intact..

David_Hayward (RIP) · #4 13-01-06, 20:36

We only get the first two here...Tesco's sell them and possibly Morrisons who bought out our Safeway supermarket chain.

#5 14-01-06, 17:55

Quote:

Originally posted by Alex Blair
I contactedArnotts In OZ to find out where I could get some Tim Tams and this is what I got back...

... We're delighted to confirm that three varieties of Tim Tam biscuits - Arnott's Original, Arnott's Chewy Caramel and Arnott's Double Coat - are now available across western Canada in Safeway and Overweitea.

Safeways is big in the west..

Hmmmm ... it seems neither of those stores exists in Ontario, let alone Toronto. Guess we'd have to go to the stores in other Provinces, or start a TIM TAMS COURIER EXPRESS!!!

David_Hayward (RIP) · #6 14-01-06, 19:21

http://www.homesick.com.au/cgi-bin/t...ans_in_the_USA

Ponysoldier · #7 16-01-06, 06:17

Gotta run to Safeway real fast like
Patrick

Bruce MacMillan · #8 16-01-06, 14:32

@&$%*##, Who broke the official secrets act? Now that the word is out we're gonna get more easterners coming here.

then again if there is a market back in Canada, with shipping, handling (lots of handling), 400% markup, maybe there's an opportunity.

Ponysoldier · #9 18-01-06, 19:38

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh Im not east, rather South and West.
Patrick

servicepub (RIP) · #10 18-01-06, 19:51

Quote:

Originally posted by Bruce MacMillan
@&$%*##, Who broke the official secrets act? Now that the word is out we're gonna get more easterners coming here.

then again if there is a market back in Canada, with shipping, handling (lots of handling), 400% markup, maybe there's an opportunity.

So, we're back to letting the "eastern bastard starve in the freezing dark" again, are we?
I don't mind the cold or the dark but pleeeease let me have a TimTam!

Bob Potter · #11 19-01-06, 00:02

Like a howling, half-nekked, Yankee barbarian, what on God's green earth are Tim-Tams? Now I like a good biscuit as much as anybody (and yes, even as a H,HN,YB I know the proper meaning of "biscuit.") to dunk in my chai, but these sound really special. Y'all are making huge noise about them.

In the interim before I haul myself to the snowy north, can I get these things in the States?

Thanks a heap.

Bob Potter

David_Hayward (RIP) · #12 19-01-06, 00:10

Tim Tams are very similar in taste and style to what we produce here in the UK as Penguin biscuits [Penguins were originally made by Macdonalds and then McVities and now United Biscuits]. Think chocolate biscuit with filling. Only they come in several varieties, but we only get two in the UK BUT they may sell the whole range in the Australian Shop in London.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A155936
http://australian-food.com/biscuits/tim_tams.html?id=47

Why Tim Tam? After a 1958 Kentucky Derby horse!

As to Penguins:

Quote:

McVitie's most popular chocolate biscuit bar, Penguin, is now over 65 years old. One of the first biscuits to be advertised by name rather than company, its association with the distinctive birds (the packaging featuring a giant Emperor Penguin) is synonymous with the brand's appeal.

and these people export them!
http://www.britsuperstore.com/acatal...s_Penguin.html

Richard Farrant · #13 19-01-06, 00:24

Quote:

Originally posted by Bob Potter
Now I like a good biscuit as much as anybody (and yes, even as a H,HN,YB I know the proper meaning of "biscuit.") to dunk ....

Ahh, you can't beat a Hob Nob for dunking, mmmmmmmm

Richard

David_Hayward (RIP) · #14 19-01-06, 00:28

To use the immortal words of Homer Simpson:

Quote:

Aahhhh! Hob Nobs!

Especially the chocolate-covered ones.

#15 19-01-06, 01:14

TIM TAMS are VERY similar in look and taste to COFFEE CRISP chocolate bars ... TIM TAMS are smaller and better!!!

Chocolate and wafers layers covered in chocolate.

#16 19-01-06, 01:18

Commericial:

"How do you like your coffee?"

"Crisp!"

Ponysoldier · #17 19-01-06, 01:28

I prefer my coffee and tea in the liquid form thank you.
Oh yeah I do drink tea
patrick

David_Hayward (RIP) · #18 19-01-06, 08:43

Looks nice...we just have my old school tuck shop TOFFEE CRISP from Nestle's.

Bob Potter · #19 19-01-06, 22:33

Penguins I know about, but it has been a long time. I know about McVities too, as I have an old friend who worked in their big plant in either Carlisle or Dumfries (she lives midway between those two cities). There is/was a McVities plant in the States some place but their product was a pale facsimile. I liked the digestive biscuit, particularly for dunking.

I'll keep looking.

Thanks a heap.

Bob