Sure, name a plagiarized cookie after a racehorse, why not? That same year the winner of the 1958 Kentucky Derby was a horse named Tim Tam, and for some reason it was decided that Tim Tam would also be an excellent name for Arnott’s new line of biscuits. While in Britain in 1958 he came across the Penguin Biscuit, and decided to “make a better one”. Tim Tams were conceived by a man named Ian Norris while he traveled the world in search of new ideas on behalf of the Arnott’s Biscuits company. eating a lot of chocolate-covered cookies) I learned some history I was not previously aware of, and now I have an urge to pass it onto you: Their availability was such a boon that even the NY Times reported on their US launch.Ī yarn (story) for you, because in “researching” this article (i.e. Now, however, they are available on Amazon and at Walmart, and select grocery stores around the US - I tend to find that most World Market’s I walk into can be trusted to have a supply. Where to buy Tim Tams in the USįor years, Australians living abroad had to smuggle Tim Tams out of the country in suitcases and ration their precious supply of the cookie like gold.
They’re such a big deal that Hugh Jackman gave them out to Oprah’s audience (not exactly a car, but who can really complain about 2008-era Hugh Jackman handing out anything?) and are a proven staple on his Diet Cheat Days. They’re delicious and iconic - one in every two Australian households purchase the biscuits, contributing to the 45 millions packets of TimTams eaten each year.īasically, Americans have Oreos, Australians have Tim Tams. (The closest equivalent to a biscuit in Australia would be what we call a plain scone).Ī classic Tim Tam consists of a silky chocolate filling sandwiched between two crunchy chocolate malted wafers, covered in a layer of chocolate.
And oh right, I suppose it’s important for you to know that in Australia, when we say “biscuit”, we don’t mean the fluffy flaky bread that goes so well with gravy - we’re talking about a cookie. You can’t just knock off Australia’s favourite biscuit? Stock the real thing or rack off, mole.Īustralia is great at selling treats from America and the UK.Got it? No? Oh, perhaps I should explain that a “choccy biccy” is what Aussies say when we mean “chocolate biscuit”. Look, I’ll be honest, to say its worse than when the US made their own version of Kath & Kim was harsh. Closer to that than any US mass market chocolate.” “Oddly they make me think of European chocolate wafers? Like the Germans made a Tim Tam. “They may be a little crispier and I think the chocolate is darker and less sweet than a standard Tim Tam – they’re on the continuum between those and dark chocolate Tim Tams,” Wilson said. PEDESTRIAN.TV spoke to Wilson about what he thought of the home brand version of Tim Tams, and surprisingly thought they tasted “European”. Trader Joe, you madman, you did Tim Tams /ZbTuEysXyi “Trader Joe, you madman, you did Tim Tams,” he wrote. The discovery was made by Australian journalist Jason Wilson, who now resides in Portland. What the actual fuck? It’s almost as bad as when Coles decided to call samosas ‘Indian-style triangles’. Well it looks like megastore Trader Joe’s in the US has capitalised on that anguish and have decided to create its own knock off version of the beloved Arnott’s biscuit - Aussie-style Chocolate Creme Sandwich Cookies.
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