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OakLeaf, my interest is solely intellectual curiosity, too!
Ingredients in the Pepperidge Farm US Chocolate Creme:Quote:
Originally Posted by snapdragen
Sugar, wheat flour, vegetable oils (hydrogenated palm, palm), skim milk powder, cocoa butter, cocoa powder, cocoa liquor, contains 2 per cent or less of: corn flour, sugar syrup, salt, milkfat, butter oil [??], soy lecithin, polyglycerol esters of fatty acids, natural and artificial flavors, sodium bicarbonate, ammonium bicarbonate, sodium metabisulfite, caramel color, yellow 6, red 40, yellow 5 and blue 1.
Not repackaging, licensing the name to sell an inferior product.
Just wrong. Now Tim Tams are going to get a bad name!Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
Further information on the tim tam slam
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHzMf...eature=related
Have to agree that Mint Slice is my weakness over a tim tam from the freezer remind me of summer days after school in Northern South Australia. US Customs accused me of being a commercial importer last time I took a box as carry on!
The one I had were made in Australia, so I would suspect that only the name outside changed (Pepperidge Farm and Arnott's are both owned by Campbell's soup)
The running family conducted a very scientific taste test of sorts.. The "arnotts" from world market are FAR superior to the blather that Pep farms is trying to foist on the american public as a "tim tam".. It's not. Sorry folks, gotta get the real deal arnotts.
I can it now.. Many real packages of tim tams being sent by Aussies to friends n family in the US because they can't find the REAL deal...
*snort*
Sounds very similar to Expat Aussies in the US dying for Vegemite when the US banned it :rolleyes:
Like you, I'm abit lost.Quote:
Originally Posted by OakLeaf
I just eat other decadent stuff. It's just not chocolate often. :o
Tim Tam smuggling, a new cottage industry is born!Quote:
Originally Posted by crazycanuck
The US banned Vegemite? :confused: Why?
WTF?! Why would the US ban vegemite? :confused: It's nectar of the gods!!!! :D
I know non-aussies (and actually, come to think of it, most aussies) will think me strange, but I love eating vegemite straight up. I just scoop it into a spoon and lick away until it's all gone. Does that make me wierd? Actually, don't answer that!
Tim Tams.. is there anything better? A close second is Mint Slices. Actually, Montes are pretty good too! Oh dear, I'm getting a chocolate craving.. gotta go!
Max
Well, I'm not actually sure they did ban vegemite.:confused: I think it was just a really good scare campaign/urban myth that went around just before the last time I went to the continental USA/Canada.Quote:
Originally Posted by Maxxxie
I was of course quite afraid that I would have to make the journey without vegemite (a fate worse than death:eek:) but a serious dig on the USA immigration and customs websites indicated that there was no drama with bringing vegemite. So I did, declared it, and didn't get dragged away in cuffs!:D
Which would seem silly anyways, really, since the previous time I was there I found vegemite in the Safeways on the highway just north of Edmonton! It just had all the details in French on the other side of the jar!:)
It's all ok..twas an urban legend...I read somewhere they wanted to ban it due to it's high folate content....
Another sucker to an urban legend :o
Hmmm...I don't think you're weird at all. I don't personally lick it off a spoon, but my Dad puts a spoon of it to dissolve in hot water and drinks it when he is sick. It's just natural for an Aussie kid to grow up loving the stuff! My personal fave is toast with vegemite and avocado. YUM!!!:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Maxxxie
There is a substitute for mint Tim Tams - Girl Scout Thin Mint cookies. Especially if you live in the right areas, where the cookie inside is chocolate. Or maybe I just haven't have enough cold Tim Tams in my life (thanks CC!). :cool:
I am curious about Tim Tams - though do they really taste like Girl Scout Thin Mints? I love chocolate and mint - but do NOT like the Girl Scout version - they have changed their recipe over the years.
Oooooo - I'm going to have to try that!!Quote:
Originally Posted by pinkbikes
Max
NO! I love Thin Mints. Tim Tams, not so much.Quote:
Originally Posted by Catrin