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.
Yup, I was going to mention Cost Plus World Market. They occasionally carry Tim Tams, too. Yum! 
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, though, they are only available in the US from October through March, so we have another six months to wait before they come back.
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.
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?
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 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!
I am sure I have seen polly waffles around recently, let me check on my next visit to the milk bar.
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!
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.
That’s an awesomely self-referential rule. Who knew Joseph Heller was a Cadbury’s factory manager?
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The only thing wrong with Pods is that they’re not available in a convenient 44 Gallon Drum pack. 
If this hadn’t been posted, reading the rest of this thread would have been very frustrating.
Well sure, that’s when the Tim Tam trees are in season. It’s our summer you 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.
I only like the dark chocolate ones. The rest I don’t like at all.