# Tim Tams suck **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 8, 2009, 10:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264 "2009-09-08T10:53:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**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:** [September 10, 2009, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/21 "2009-09-10T09:23:27Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > Wow! Have you tried Girl Guide Biscuits, Cameo Cremes, and Squiggles? 1. Not that great, IMHO. 2. Yuck. 3. Blech. ---
**Author:** ![Cugel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cugel/32/1199_2.png) [@Cugel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cugel)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/22 "2009-09-11T05:07:08Z")
Gaietys are better than Tim Tams, if they’re still around. ---
**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:** [September 11, 2009, 6:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/23 "2009-09-11T06:48:58Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > 1. Cookie Time In a past job I did some filming at the Cookie Time factory, and I got to eat a Cookie Time straight out of their ovens… Quite possibly the world’s perfect food. And now I want one. I found a shop near me in Melbourne that sold them - I might have to go past on the way home - after all, it’s not for me, it’s for the baby… ---
**Author:** ![TWDuke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e495f1/32.png) [@TWDuke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TWDuke)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/24 "2009-09-11T08:03:55Z")
> [@Girl\_From\_Mars](#): > > But while you have them there, why not try a [Tim Tam Slam](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tam_Slam)? > > ETA Oops, didn’t see your reference to the slam in your OP. Carry on! But your link isn’t an annoying YouTube video, so: bonus points! Also, your link explains that the company that makes Tim Tams pushed for the “Tim Tam Slam” to be called the “Tim Tam Suck,” which is worth knowing. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 3:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/25 "2009-09-11T15:28:44Z")
> [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](#): > > Attention Shoppers: Penguins are Britain’s [third most dangerous biscuit](http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6153518/Crumbs-half-of-Britons-injured-by-their-biscuits-on-coffee-break-survey-reveals.html). Thanks for that link. I used it for my monthly safety presentation at work this morning! ---
**Author:** ![BrotherCadfael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@BrotherCadfael](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrotherCadfael)\ **Post date:** [September 11, 2009, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/26 "2009-09-11T17:19:12Z")
But, do River Tams suck? ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2009, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/27 "2009-09-13T22:18:36Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > I have to say I’m not a huge fan of Australian chocolate. It’s OK, but the NZ stuff is better IMHO. There was a considerable period of dismay and depression in my house when Cadbury moved the last of its NZ choc manufacturing to Oz. It’s just not the same. Probably good for me in the long run, but my wife had a long-term Caramello addiction. Sadness ensued. ☹ ---
**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:** [September 13, 2009, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/28 "2009-09-13T23:54:46Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > There was a considerable period of dismay and depression in my house when Cadbury moved the last of its NZ choc manufacturing to Oz. It’s just not the same. Probably good for me in the long run, but my wife had a long-term Caramello addiction. Sadness ensued. ☹ Have you got a news story on that, by any chance? I’ve heard a couple of people say that Cadbury have shut down their NZ chocolate production, but the only source I can find is Cadbury mentioning a massive overhaul of their Dunedin factory and saying they’re going to produce even more chocolate there, mostly for export. ---
**Author:** ![Apollyon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/apollyon/32/4238_2.png) [@Apollyon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apollyon)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2009, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/29 "2009-09-14T01:55:33Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > Have you got a news story on that, by any chance? I’ve heard a couple of people say that Cadbury have shut down their NZ chocolate production, but the only source I can find is Cadbury mentioning a massive overhaul of their Dunedin factory and saying they’re going to produce even more chocolate there, mostly for export. Well now that is interesting. I wonder if the Oz choc is temporary. > [@Cadbury web site](#): > > It will see Dunedin become a specialist centre for the manufacture of boxed chocolate assortments such as Roses, Continental and Milk Tray as well as bars such as Buzz Bar, Chocolate Fish, Pinky and sugar panned products such as Jaffas and Pebbles. > > This is in addition to a NZ$20 million investment at Dunedin to create a specialist centre for chocolate crumb – the base ingredient in Cadbury Dairy Milk milk chocolate that is used in New Zealand and Australian chocolate and is also being exported to South East Asia. Hmm… no mention of blocks. A few months back the packaging on all the blocks changed here (from foil and paper to a foil and card box - [example pic](http://www.cadbury.co.nz/Products/Blocks-of-Chocolate/Dairy-Milk.aspx)), and this seems to coincide with all the blocks coming from Australia. They also changed the chocolate recipe (here’s one [irate consumer](http://ozsoapbox.com/personal/new-220g-cadbury-chocolate-blocks-are-absolute-rubbish/)’s take on it) by adding vegetable oil. _bleh_ 🙂 Interestingly Cadbury may have listened, according to [this press release](http://www.cadbury.co.nz/About-Cadbury/News.aspx?newsID=47) on their site they’re going back to cocoa butter only. ---
**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:** [September 14, 2009, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264/30 "2009-09-14T02:07:48Z")
> [@Apollyon](#): > > They also changed the chocolate recipe … by adding vegetable oil. Doggone. That explains a lot. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-tams-suck/509264.md?page=1)