Pepperidge Farm, eh? I'll be damned!

But, just for accuracy's sake, I should mention that they crossed the equator quite some time back: they've been available as imports here in Japan for awhile now!

If you visited other sites occasionally, you'd have known this over 2 weeks ago (because I posted it there).

And they were available in the U.S. before this, but only at import stores like World Market and about a buck-and-a-half more expensive.

We have a big pack of Tim Tams in the office, brought back by one of my trainees from a visit to her family in Melbourne.

They're similar to Penguins, but oh so much better - lighter and more chocolatey.

I saw Tim Tams at a Target store in Fayetteville, GA a few weeks ago. I'd say that qualifies their global domination as COMPLETE.

I can only imagine that all the "w00t!" posts are missing from the thread because everyone is busy eating Tim Tams.

Yeah, I have seen them in a few supermarkets here and there. Pepperidge Farm though, blah. I just wait for my southern hemisphere peeps to re-up me every so often.

I have a ginormous bag of candy and cookies from NZ and England -real Cadburys, yay - right now. it's staring at me. I hate it. Hate it and love it.

I'm suspicious. I'll need an ingredient-by-ingredient comparison and a whole lotta taste-testing before I'll be convinced.

Gaspode, is *real* Cadbury's NZ or UK?

I swung by the cookie aisle of Target a couple of weeks back, expecting to be disappointed. (They were available for a limited time last year, but disappeared for a while.) Imagine my surprise when I saw that not only were they oin stock, but they had added a dark chocolate flavor too! Om nom nom. (Slurp slurp slurp?)

A more personally affecting issue is the enormous difficulty I had finding a Terry's chocolate orange this year.

GeckoDundee, IMO it's English, although the NZ Cadbury's (for I have that as well - there is a Cadbury's factory in my home town... complete with chocolate waterfall) tastes a lot closer to the English chocolate than does the USA crap.

The P.Farms TimTams are Made in Australia, and, at least for this year's TimTam Season (thru March), Dark Chocolate is a 'Target Exclusive'... And they are thoroughly TimTam Slam Capable.

This is great news! I need to go buy a million packages before PF changes their minds or something.

I always love it when something small goes big, and they try to keep it looking like it's made in someone's kitchen, but then inevitably high fructose corn syrup appears very high on the ingredient list, and I am almost sure that no one ever uses that in their kitchen.

I saw these at the store a few weeks ago and snagged a package. They are, I'm afraid, not as good as the originals. Must be all the crack the Aussie MeCha bunnies inject into the cookies before mailing them.

I saw Tim Tams at a Target store in Fayetteville, GA a few weeks ago. I'd say that qualifies their global domination as COMPLETE.

Whoa, slow down there, cowboy. I have yet to see them in Canada; so hold on to your horses.

Pepperidge Farm makes good cookies - Mint Milano's are oh-so-yummy! Looking forward to trying Tim Tam's (I have no Aussie friends to send them to me *sob*).

Wolfdog, lots of Terry's chocolate oranges to be found here in BC (both dark and regular chocolate). I grabbed a couple for our xmas stockings.

Oh well I'll just pop up and snag a few then.

I recently found some Timtams in my local grocery store, deborah. Ontario, sure, but Canada. After consulting with some knowledgeable Aussies, I discovered that I had a "caramel" version which was not the original. Still...I tried the slam. The caramel got weird, but in all, I can see the charm!

I'm suspicious. The American Terry's Chocolate Orange I tried last month said "Made in Great Britain" but was awful. Really awful. Nasty, even. I suspect they left the rest of the sentence out, but secretly meant "Made in Great Britain to fool our American cousins into thinking that Terry's Chocolate Oranges are fit only for making candles and paving driveways." I had to get my dad to send me one from Canada to prove to bitteroldpunk that I wasn't overstating the superiority of my country's version for the sake of national pride. The ever-generous jonathanstrange sent us some TimTams all the way from Oz and we are now addicted (sssshhhhh, don't tell BOP but I've hidden the last three), but I am so very afraid that the Pepperidge Farm version for US consumption will be waxy and unpleasant and a terrible disappointment, too.

Yeah, the caramel lingers after the rest of the cookie disappears when you slam them, which is a bit weird, but kind of tasty too.

And I second that the Dark Chocolate ones are slammable.

Man, between this and visions of Italian cookies...

I had heard the phrase before, but had to search for a definition of Tim Tam Slam. I'm glad I did, because it was through this that I learned that the official term is Tim Tam Suck, which is less than exciting.

Elizarde: someone in Scotland that I follow on Twitter was complaining just a few days ago that Terry's Chocolate Orange now tastes awful, which made me fear they've done something to the recipe. People of Great Britain, please report in on the current state of Terry's Chocolate Oranges!