Bobby - you'd better not be knocking the Tim Tam Slam, my friend!
I'm just going to add a bit of an explanation to Amy's picture. You bite off the diagonal corners of the biscuit, stick one corner in a cup of hot chocolate, and suck the liquid up it. The biscuit melts pretty soon afterwards, so before this happens, you shove the whole thing in your mouth where it collapses in on itself in a big, gooey, chocolatey mess.
Btw, for those of you in the UK - Tim Tams are very similar to the Penguin biscuit, but the Tim Tams are far superior IMHO. You can't get a Penguin to melt in quite the same way as a Tim Tam, and it doesn't have the same porosity to allow the hot chocolate to be sucked up through it as easily. Trust me, when I lived in Scotland I was momentarily excited by the prospect of a similar experience, and was then somewhat disappointed. Even so, they're not a bad stand in.
Amy - my parents send me Australian food in 'care packages' every couple of months. They often include
Tim Tams,
Vegemite (although they sell it in Canada too if you look in the right places - health food stores, would you believe!),
Burger Rings,
Milo (I'm nearly out right now!!),
Musk flavoured Life Savers (they don't know this flavour here, it's weird),
REAL Cadbury's Chocolate (it tastes different in North America, thicker and less milky
), amongst other things. It's a shame they can't send ice cream through the mail, because the selection of ice creams on a stick here (ie: like Peters or Streets) is fairly small.
Other things I miss include: chinese dim sims and meat pies readily available (pie warmers - ooooh!) and cheddar cheese - it tastes kinda rubbery here, I find.
I enjoy reading about it, even if I can't partake.
