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Tim Tam Slam
I was on the Spug forum today and there was this post about Tim Tam Slams. I recall vividly that I used to eat my Tim Tams in this fashion when I was in Perth. It brought back fond memories sitting in the pantry of our set and having Tim Tams with hot thick Milo. Here's how it is done.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tam_Slam
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Tim Tam Slam is the practice of drinking a beverage by sucking it through a Tim Tam, an Australian chocolate-covered biscuit. The practice is done by sucking through a Tim Tam with both ends bitten off. According to the Toxic Custard guide to Australia, this procedure is done as follows:
Prepare a cup of tea (or other hot or cold drink)
Remove the Tim Tam from the packet
Bite a small section off two diagonally opposite corners
Dip one corner into the drink
Suck on the other corner, which will mix the drink with little pieces of the biscuit
When the Tim Tam begins to fall apart in your hand, eat the whole biscuit
Obtain another Tim Tam from the packet and return to step 3
Other biscuits and other countries. The Tim Tam Slam has spread from Australia to other countries with mixed success. The practice is hampered by lack of exact equivalents to the Tim Tam, requiring people to perform it with other biscuits. It is, however, carried out in exactly the same fashion in New Zealand, due to the wide-spread availability of the biscuits there.
In an article in the Oberlin Review Cat Richert reports attempting the practice in the United States using oreo cookies after returning from a trip to Tasmania, but without success. (Oreos are not completely enclosed in a chocolate case and thus do not form an enclosed straw.)
In the United Kingdom, one person has reported having found the Penguin "suitable for Slamming", albeit tricky, and with the recommendation to use a shorter length of biscuit and not to use one's hands to hold the biscuit but to simply hold it with one's mouth; the Rocky Bar an "excellent success", with the biscuit being lighter, and with the caramel centre adding "a soft chewy edge that was most agreeable", albeit with the same caveats as for the Penguin; and the Kit Kat "fairly good", with the recommendation to snap the finger in half and use one half at a time for tea-sucking, as it yielded less mess.
On Australia Day in 2004, 200 people in a pub in Croydon, and reportedly 30,000 people throughout the United Kingdom as a whole, attempted to set a record for tea-sucking, using Tim Tams.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tam_Slam
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
The Tim Tam Slam is the practice of drinking a beverage by sucking it through a Tim Tam, an Australian chocolate-covered biscuit. The practice is done by sucking through a Tim Tam with both ends bitten off. According to the Toxic Custard guide to Australia, this procedure is done as follows:
Prepare a cup of tea (or other hot or cold drink)
Remove the Tim Tam from the packet
Bite a small section off two diagonally opposite corners
Dip one corner into the drink
Suck on the other corner, which will mix the drink with little pieces of the biscuit
When the Tim Tam begins to fall apart in your hand, eat the whole biscuit
Obtain another Tim Tam from the packet and return to step 3
Other biscuits and other countries. The Tim Tam Slam has spread from Australia to other countries with mixed success. The practice is hampered by lack of exact equivalents to the Tim Tam, requiring people to perform it with other biscuits. It is, however, carried out in exactly the same fashion in New Zealand, due to the wide-spread availability of the biscuits there.
In an article in the Oberlin Review Cat Richert reports attempting the practice in the United States using oreo cookies after returning from a trip to Tasmania, but without success. (Oreos are not completely enclosed in a chocolate case and thus do not form an enclosed straw.)
In the United Kingdom, one person has reported having found the Penguin "suitable for Slamming", albeit tricky, and with the recommendation to use a shorter length of biscuit and not to use one's hands to hold the biscuit but to simply hold it with one's mouth; the Rocky Bar an "excellent success", with the biscuit being lighter, and with the caramel centre adding "a soft chewy edge that was most agreeable", albeit with the same caveats as for the Penguin; and the Kit Kat "fairly good", with the recommendation to snap the finger in half and use one half at a time for tea-sucking, as it yielded less mess.
On Australia Day in 2004, 200 people in a pub in Croydon, and reportedly 30,000 people throughout the United Kingdom as a whole, attempted to set a record for tea-sucking, using Tim Tams.
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