I think maybe it’s a British candy, but I’m totally guessing… anyone know?
It’s an Aussie Biscuit…
Rectangle in shape…chocolate biscuit with chocolate filling covered in chocolate.
A childhood tradition is to bite off a little of the opposite corners; and use the Tim Tam like a straw whilst drinking milk 
like this, i guess…
and according to google, this is Tam Tim
Good one, Amar! 
I see! Thanks Ray… and you too, Amar, for your graphics presentation. I think I may have to try to get a hold of one of those some day! Well, the Tim Tam, not the Tam Tim-- he may not appreciate being nabbed from his home. 
might depend on who nabs him, no?
I don’t think the Tim Tam has enough chocolate in it. Can they make the wrapper out of chocolate too?
Be aware that the term “biscuit” means something very different in parts of the US. http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://www.houseofcraig.net/images/bizkits3.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.houseofcraig.net/recipes.html&h=330&w=430&sz=27&tbnid=6oK_alzN0soJ:&tbnh=94&tbnw=122&start=4&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbiscuit%2Brecipe%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG
As a matter of interest, the site from which Amar got the above photo was clearly the work of someone who at the very least had lived in SIngapore or Malaysia (more likely Singapore because I’ve seen many Malaysians spell it as “syok”) for some time.
The word “shiok” is used here to describe the wonderful feeling or rush one gets from a great experience. This great experience is often the enjoyment of a good meal or dish, altho it can be used for, say, a great massage one enjoys on aching muscles and limbs, or an exhilarating roller coaster ride.
Nuance-wise, it’s more than just “nice”, there has to be some sort of kick or intense rush, as in the ingesting of a really delicious but super-spicy curry.
Usage in a sentence: “Wow, this curry is shiok!”
I would say that the Tim-Tams-as-drinking-straw experience deserves to be described as “shiok”.
They are the best choc biscuits around.
When I was visiting some Australian relatives, they were horrified that I had no idea what a Tim Tam was. They bought me a whole package of them and tought me how to eat them “properly”–bite off both ends and use it as a straw to suck up milk (as someone mentioned earlier in this thread). The key was to gulp it down before it completely disintegrated. I have to say, not only was it very entertaining (and somewhat challenging), but it tasted great.
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The biting off the ends bit and using it as a straw in tea, milk, vodka, etc. is technically known as a “Tim Tam Slam.”
On a slight sidetrack, we are starting to get Australian products in the UK shops. This weekend I actually found a bathroom cleaning product that works. Called Bath Power in the UK, or Shower Power in Oz, it actully does what it says. One good session of squirting all over the bath, leave for a minute, then rinse away, and it actually did remove the accumulated soap scum and limescale. Nothing else I have ever tried has come close to having this effect.
So…maybe Tim Tams will arrive in the UK shops soon. Not to be confused with Tum Tums.
I had biscuits and gravy in the States, what a dreadful misrepresentation that was. The biscuit was more like a bath sponge than a Bath Oliver.
Yes I fell for that one too, and was mortified 'pon receiving a bowl of wallpaper paste with a sponge floating in it. No-one had heard of Bisto or Oxo at the local Walmart either.
Sponge bobbing in wallpaper paste = pants!
And they think they’re a First World Nation :roll:
Poor misguided children. Sigh.
LOL at the Yanks…I’ve learned to watch what I say when doing seminars over there…
I love them to death, but they had to quickly get used to the “Aussie Sarcasm”…and my un-political correctness
I can always tell when I’ve lost their attention through Aussie terminology…the “glazed eye” look, and just nodding their heads out of politeness is a dead give away…
What the heck is that drink? It looks like chocolate soy milk with ice!
I never quite understand the appeal of bisquits and gravy myself.
looks like coke to me..
As the noisiest Aussie around here I ought to have something to say about these things. In truth, I don’t like them very much and I have never used them as a straw.
I’ve never even bought a packet. Actually, I love chocolate but only dark chocolate. These biscuits are milk chocolate. I might have had about three or four in my life when better biscuits weren’t available.
Wombat, dark chocolate Tim Tams do exist. I’ve had them, sent to the States by some Aussie friends. I can barely stomach milk chocalate myself, but dark chocalate is another story. They were good. Not as good as a dark chocolate bar with 70-90% cocoa solids, of course, but still good.