#tim tams

[iggika]

Crikeycore

[frickityfrackityfuckingshit]

Listen, if you don’t have Tim tams.

How do you ignore your problems. With normal chocolate?

Because Tim tams are like chocolate x100

[copperbadge]

Tim Tams have come to America, in the guise of “Aussie Style” cookies at Trader Joe’s. 

[ID: Two boxes of cookies from Trader Joe’s, showing a suspiciously Tim Tam looking cookie on the front. The title on the box is “Trader Joe’s Aussie-style Chocolate Creme Sandwich Cookies Coated in Chocolate.”]

[highladyofterrasen7]

As an Australian…

Please stop calling tamlin tim tam. Tim tams are one of the greatest things his country has ever done and are delicious and a national treasure and should not ever be compared to that piece of shit

[gravity-falls-fanatic89]

I have rediscovered the feeling of happiness, and I'm very confused as I drink my food coffee, eat my gifted Tim Tams, and look at old men online.

I'm very confused. I don't remember the last time genuine happiness was in me.

[scotianostra]

William Arnott  founder of the Arnott’s Biscuits company was born on December 6th 1827 in Pathhead.

One for our Antipodean branch of the Scottish diaspora, or at least the Australian branch.

As happens quite often there are differing details with William Arnott, namely his place of birth, one version gives it as Pathhead, Midlothian, which I know fairly well, another tells me it was Pathhead near Kirkcaldy in Fife, which had me googling away like mad as, not being a Fifer I had was not aware of the latter, all I could find was Pathhead Sands though, but I am not discounting him being born there.

There’s nothing about his formative years, his parents David and Isabella migrated with his younger siblings in the 1840s, possibly as part of an assisted migration scheme. we pick up the story of William Arnott  in October 1847 he and his brother David set out for Sydney, Australia on board the assisted-immigrants' ship Sir Edward Parry; they reached Sydney some 135 days later, on 17th February 1848.

Having apprenticed as baker quickly got a job with his brother at a Maitland bakery. William left in 1851, to work the goldfields.

In 1853 he returned to Maitland to start his own bakery after failing as a gold miner. He was successful as a baker until affected by a succession of floods in 1856, 1857 and 1861. Having gotten into debt from the flood damage, he moved to Newcastle in 1865. In the next few years, he became known for his biscuits.  By the time he retired 1899, he employed over 800 people in his Newcastle and Sydney factories. His company soon became a well-known, home-grown Australian brand.

The reputation of his biscuits reached further afield and from 1882 he began sending boatloads to Sydney. Arnott paid off all the debts incurred in the 1860s and in 1883, his creditors held a luncheon in his honour — and integrity — presenting him with a gold medal.

In 1888 Arnott created a biscuit using arrowroot flour, something he had learned was a staple for sailors. The Milk Arrowroot biscuit became a favourite with the public and was marketed as a way of introducing babies to solid foods.

After a trip to Scotland in 1870, Arnott was gifted a Macaw by the ship’s captain. The bird developed a taste for Arnott’s biscuits, and became a cherished pe the pet still features as the company logot. Arnott made a visit to Scotland in 1893 and when he returned in 1894 he bought a factory at Forest Lodge in Sydney, and made his sons partners in the business.

As the demand for his products grew, Arnott planned to move the company headquarters to Homebush. When he retired in 1899 Arnotts employed over 800 people in his Newcastle and Sydney factories.William Arnott died aged 73 in 1901 before the plans could be realised. However, his 7 sons took over where their father left off.

In 1906 work began on what would become the largest biscuit factory in the southern hemisphere at Homebush, which, at the time, lived up to its name being surrounded by bush. Detractors thought it was too far out of Sydney to be practical, but in 1908 Arnott’s dream factory opened and the town of Homebush grew up around it.

Arnotts are most famous for their biscuit, the Tim Tam  the story behind it is in 1958, Ian Norris, head of Food Technology at Arnott’s went on a worldwide fact finding trip, looking for new product ideas for the company.

While in the UK he came across the ‘Penguin’, a brand I am sure all us at home know.  Norris said in an interview that 

‘I thought it was not a bad idea for a biscuit: so, we’ll make a better one. There is nothing wrong with coming up with a similar product.’

Norris brought the idea of the Penguin back to Australia, and set to work, experimenting with different biscuit textures, and cream flavours. But getting the mix right proved elusive. The new Australian version would be five years in development. Named after an American racehorse that one of the Arnott brothers sw winning the Kentucky Derby, they launched the Tim Tam and it was an immediate hit. It soon established itself as Arnott’s best-selling product, and has remained so through the subsequent decades.

The company now sells about 30 million packets of Tim Tams a year.

In 1997 the company became a subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company, but Arnott’s still manufactures its biscuits in Australia.

[jackbatchelor3]

Or as we call them in Britain, Penguins.

🍫🐧

[you-need-not-apply]

Australian news reporter giving Tom cruise a packet of Tim tams for his birthday is the most Aussie thing I’ve seen today

[aceoffangirls]

Not including the deluxe range

[legolonia]

Norm Alguy.

Me and my good friends, Tim and Tam.

#legophotography #greyscale #blackandwhite #fun #livingwithfibromyalgia #chronicfatigue #normalguy #legolonia #awesome #minifig #playwell #staywell #leica #sony #canon #justanormalguylivinganormallife #olympus #desktopphotography #lifeisgood #friends #timtams

[nintendont2502]

How does it feel to be Australian

It's been over 35 Celsius for the past week + there was so many flies at work yesterday we were having a fly killing competition but. Apart from that yeah pretty decent!

[deannaistyping]

What Americans are missing out on.

[nicepodbud]

Stuff we talked about in episode #23

Stupid Tim Tam stuff

Samurai Pizza Cats!

[nimuetheseawitch]

Reading a story set in Australia and as soon as the narrator mentioned "rectangular, chocolate-covered biscuits," my brain lit up and screamed, "Tim Tams!"

[sincerelywithheart]

Finally tried TimTams after hearing about it from Daniel Ricciardo and Aussie content creators and....

I like it! It's a good biscuit and I like the chocolate! Now I understand why it's favorite