To think this is taking things a bit far?

[ilovecrisps]

OK let me publically state here I am totally in agreement with not taking dodgy foodstuffs into foreign countries, you get my drift honey, dirty boat bottoms etc etc.

However a friend and I have a thing going on about penguins and tim tams.
Ages ago when you transitted though LA you had to get off the plane clear immigration get your stuff and go back through to get your London flight do you still have to?

Anyway she was flying form Oz had the obligatory tim tams came through LA and they got taken off her, I'm really irrationally pissed off with this.

It's a pack of precessed biscuits that was going no further than 20 minutes in the lounge she wasn't even going to eat one!!

Am I wrong? is there a problem with tim tams? I do prefer penguins naturally but it still makes me cross

They have them in New Zealand too.

no, but i lived over there for about 2 years though and they are far more exciting than penguins. i speak as a chocoholic. and as for cherry ripes.....

And presumably the Kiwis like them.

Kiwi being "person from NZ" there rather than the bird.

Timtams are horrible. Like a cheap Bourbon covered in fake chocolate. An Aussie friend gave me some once, as if she was giving me the Holy Grail. Don't get it.

(But will concede that Vegemite is nicer than Marmite.)

Well, I bought some for an Australian friend at work and she's been back in Oz for more than three years now, so it must have been before then that I first bought them.

cherry ripe!!!

ilove - am in the UK now!

btw, please tell us what 'dirty boat bottoms' are a euphemism for - i've googled and can't find anything other than the bottom of a boat that needs cleaning.

Funky you need to get down to tesco clearly

MrsS you say it so well

dirty boat bottom is a euphemism for nothing, you can spread pond life etc etc on a dirty boat bottom, I'm sure I read once about it somewhere.....

Indeed you can. And coffee to make a mocha.

Of course the penguin doesnt work. It cos their shit, innit?

My mind boggles at the suction needed to hoover hot chocolate through a tim tam

Tim Tams are far superior to Penguins

you'd burst an eardrum, surely.

lol

OMG, my Aussie DH would have a fit if he heard you describing Tim Tams as a "fake Australian Penguin"!

yeah but he's biased

cheap Bourbon covered in fake chocolate is so much better

I so want to try a tim tam to do a proper "tim tam slam".

YANBU.

Vegiemite is VILE.
Marmite is manna.

Actually, there are two advantages that Tim Tams have over Penguins. Firstly, you can slurp your tea through them and secondly, they come in a packet like biscuits, not singularly like Penguins, so you don't feel greedy eating more than one.