# Candy from Australia **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 2, 2012, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597 "2012-05-02T02:14:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/21 "2012-05-02T17:11:26Z")
When we visit the Cost Plus World Market in San Francisco, they often have Violet Crumble bars. There seems to be a Cost Plus in Kansas City. The OP might give that a try if he’s in the area. ---
**Author:** ![kath94](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/67e7ee/32.png) [@kath94](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kath94)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/22 "2012-05-02T17:26:40Z")
Yup, I was going to mention Cost Plus World Market. They occasionally carry Tim Tams, too. Yum! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/23 "2012-05-02T17:35:27Z")
Over the past couple of years, i’ve actually been able to pick up Tim Tams in our regular Vons (Safeway) grocery store. Apparently, the American company Pepperidge Farm has somesort of arrangement with the Australian company Arnott’s for importing Tim Tams to America and selling them under the Pepperidge Farm name. According to the company [website](http://www.pepperidgefarm.com/ProductDetail.aspx?catID=944&prdID=120848), though, they are only available in the US from October through March, so we have another six months to wait before they come back. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@The\_Devil\_s\_Grandmother](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Devil_s_Grandmother)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/24 "2012-05-02T17:38:16Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Does anyone know where to find Jaffas, Violet Crumble, and the Cherry Ripe bar, in the northeast part of Kansas? Failing that, can they be ordered online in packages smaller than those marketed to wholesalers? May or may not help, but if you have any fancy-schmany grocery stores that have a little section of “British” foods, you may be able to find Violet Crumbles there. Around here, CostPlus and Mollie Stones carry them, but I don’t know if those are interstate stores. I see I type too slowly. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/25 "2012-05-02T18:43:49Z")
I want to thank all the people who have replied to my OP. There is a store, Brits, in Lawrence, which is about twenty five miles from Topeka. I’ve seen some candies there, like the licorice All-Sorts, but I don’t remember the ones I mentioned. but now I do remember, although I’ve not been there, that Lawrence has a World Market store. They may have some of these items. On that one Ohio website I noticed a lot of other candies that sound good. Does anyone have recommendations for trying something new? ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2012, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/26 "2012-05-02T19:03:51Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > On that one Ohio website I noticed a lot of other candies that sound good. Does anyone have recommendations for trying something new? Growing up, i was a huge fan of the Chokito bar. My mother still occasionally sends me a package from Australia, and i always ask for a few Chokitos. I also really like the Bounty. In concept, it’s quite similar to a Mounds, but i think that the coconut filling in a Bounty is moister and better flavored than the filling in a Mounds. The Mint Pattie is another favorite of mine. Similar in some ways to a York Peppermint Pattie, the filling is softer and slightly sweeter, and overall it’s bigger and thicker than a York. One that i really love, that doesn’t seen to be available on that site, is the Polly Waffle. It’s a sort of waffle tube, filled with stiff marshmallow, and the covered in chocolate. Actually, looking up the [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Waffle) entry, i see that they discontinued it a couple of years back, after 62 years of production, due to poor sales. That’s a tragedy! ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/27 "2012-05-03T00:05:47Z")
I am sure I have seen polly waffles around recently, let me check on my next visit to the milk bar. ---
**Author:** ![sisu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@sisu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sisu)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/28 "2012-05-03T00:07:21Z")
> [@Imasquare](#): > > If you tell me what you want I will buy it and post it to you. You can pay for it through my PayPal account. > > Of course you will need to have a bit of blind trust - _I_ know I’m honest but you don’t. > > I know an interesting and slightly disgusting bit of trivia about Cherry Ripe bars: In the 1970s my step dad worked in the factory where they were made. He said that if glazed cherries were in short supply they would use colored turnip instead. Yep my brother worked at cadburys in Ringwood whilst at Uni and this is correct. He was also allowed to eat as much chocolate as he was allowed. The theory was that people would get sick of eating but they hadn’t met my little bro! ---
**Author:** ![mhendo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mhendo/32/3159_2.png) [@mhendo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mhendo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/29 "2012-05-03T00:29:47Z")
> [@sisu](#): > > I am sure I have seen polly waffles around recently, let me check on my next visit to the milk bar. I would be very happy if they’re still available. I’ll have to ask my mother to send me some, if she can get her hands on them. ---
**Author:** ![lisiate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f05b48/32.png) [@lisiate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lisiate)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 6:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/30 "2012-05-03T06:51:21Z")
> [@sisu](#): > > Yep my brother worked at cadburys in Ringwood whilst at Uni and this is correct. **He was also allowed to eat as much chocolate as he was allowed.** The theory was that people would get sick of eating but they hadn’t met my little bro! That’s an awesomely self-referential rule. Who knew Joseph Heller was a Cadbury’s factory manager? ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 9:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/31 "2012-05-03T09:53:02Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > On the Dope, several years ago, we did a “candy exchange” and I got some candy from an Australian poster. > > I really loved all three items, and I’ve only found them one place here in the States, although they’re probably elsewhere, and I haven’t seen them. Hi **Baker** - that was me and I’d be happy to send you some more. I’ve never seen the Cadbury Creme eggs with orange fondant but, if I did, I’d be sure to try some. I’m partial to the Strawberry Cadbury Creme eggs but they run out very quickly. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2012, 9:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/32 "2012-05-03T09:58:57Z")
> [@sisu](#): > > Yep my brother worked at cadburys in Ringwood whilst at Uni and this is correct. He was also allowed to eat as much chocolate as he was allowed. The theory was that people would get sick of eating but they hadn’t met my little bro! My mother worked at the Nestle factory in Abbotsford (the Sydney one, not the Melbourne one) and the same rule applied. They could take home a certain amount of chocolate per week and eat as much as they could manage while they were on the production line. Unfortunately for me, this was all before I was born. Mum was working there when Coconut Rough was first made and she ate so much of it she made herself sick and could never eat it again. Even thirty years late, the very idea of Coconut Rough made her heave. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 10:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/33 "2012-05-04T10:45:30Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > Although not JAFAs, it must be said! 😉 This is true, but we musn’t confuse those wayward colonials with our antipodean in-references now! 😛 And I think I’m probably one of the few people in Australia who doesn’t adore Tim Tams. I don’t _mind_ Tim Tams and I’ll certainly have one if the packet’s open and I’m having a coffee with someone, but they’re definitely not my biscuit of choice. ---
**Author:** ![KinkiNipponTourist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e9bcb4/32.png) [@KinkiNipponTourist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KinkiNipponTourist)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/34 "2012-05-04T11:08:44Z")
Man, we are SWIMMING in Tim Tams here, in many different flavors. Alas, I don’t like them. The biscuit bit is too soft and mushy. Nast. VIOLET CRUMBLE! I haven’t found a place that delivers to Japan, and I’d be very interested in paying large amounts of cash/sending lavish Japanese gifties to anyone who would like to hook a brother (err, sister) up with some of the good shit. While I’m here, I’ll also mention how much I’d love to get my hands on DARK CHOCOLATE COVERED PEEPS. When did the best two flavors in the universe decide to hook up? Right then. If anyone would like some tasty KitKats (we have them here in everything from green tea to wasabi to cherry-blossom flavor), or the latest incarnation of Hello Kitty (pretty much anything you can imagine is now available in a Hello Kitty version), or say, some nice WWII-era maps of Japan/1960’s celebrity gossip mags, etc. please let me know. ---
**Author:** ![Dinaroozie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e9c0ed/32.png) [@Dinaroozie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dinaroozie)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/35 "2012-05-04T11:15:38Z")
Any of you guys into Pods? I just spent a year in the US and I don’t think I missed any food more than pods (except maybe flake (as in shark meat, not the chocolate bar)). Got myself a big bag of snickers pods when I got home last week. It was good. I’ll miss junior mints though. ---
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 11:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/36 "2012-05-04T11:46:57Z")
> [@Dinaroozie](#): > > Any of you guys into Pods? I just spent a year in the US and I don’t think I missed any food more than pods (except maybe flake (as in shark meat, not the chocolate bar)). Got myself a big bag of snickers pods when I got home last week. It was good. The only thing wrong with Pods is that they’re not available in a convenient 44 Gallon Drum pack. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Hallucinex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba9def/32.png) [@Hallucinex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hallucinex)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 12:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/37 "2012-05-04T12:02:31Z")
> [@sandra\_nz](#): > > This won’t help any US dopers (including the OP, sorry!), but if you are in the UK, there is a site that sells stuff from South Africa, Australia and New Zealand: > > [http://www.sanza.co.uk/](http://www.sanza.co.uk/) If this hadn’t been posted, reading the rest of this thread would have been very frustrating. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 12:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/38 "2012-05-04T12:46:00Z")
> [@mhendo](#): > > Over the past couple of years, i’ve actually been able to pick up Tim Tams in our regular Vons (Safeway) grocery store. > > Apparently, the American company Pepperidge Farm has somesort of arrangement with the Australian company Arnott’s for importing Tim Tams to America and selling them under the Pepperidge Farm name. > > According to the company [website](http://www.pepperidgefarm.com/ProductDetail.aspx?catID=944&prdID=120848), though, they are only available in the US from October through March, so we have another six months to wait before they come back. Well sure, that’s when the Tim Tam trees are in season. It’s our summer you know. ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 12:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/39 "2012-05-04T12:49:54Z")
> [@KinkiNipponTourist](#): > > Man, we are SWIMMING in Tim Tams here, in many different flavors. Alas, I don’t like them. The biscuit bit is too soft and mushy. Nast. > > VIOLET CRUMBLE! I haven’t found a place that delivers to Japan, and I’d be very interested in paying large amounts of cash/sending lavish Japanese gifties to anyone who would like to hook a brother (err, sister) up with some of the good shit. > > While I’m here, I’ll also mention how much I’d love to get my hands on DARK CHOCOLATE COVERED PEEPS. When did the best two flavors in the universe decide to hook up? > > Right then. If anyone would like some tasty KitKats (we have them here in everything from green tea to wasabi to cherry-blossom flavor), or the latest incarnation of Hello Kitty (pretty much anything you can imagine is now available in a Hello Kitty version), or say, some nice WWII-era maps of Japan/1960’s celebrity gossip mags, etc. please ilet me know. Ive got a Paypal acvount too, so more than happy to help, just PM me. I’m also in NZ in 2 weeks if there are any Kiwi treats anyone’s missing. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2012, 1:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597/40 "2012-05-04T13:05:08Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > And I think I’m probably one of the few people in Australia who doesn’t adore Tim Tams. I only like the dark chocolate ones. The rest I don’t like at all. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/candy-from-australia/620597.md?page=3)