Candy digression January 09

[Anthony Darby]

( edit by M) This thread arose from conversations sparked in the Narcissus 2009 thread     

Re: Narcissus 2009 - maggiepieThanks for the advice John, my problem is I am finding this forum to be too much like a lolly shop, and I fear I will over indulge.

Well with -30^oC you'd be able to keep your lollies outside without them melting.

[maggiepie]

I try to avoid lollies, especially in winter.
Fortunately for me my favourite ones are not available in Canada, at least  from what I can find out.
When my daughters take pity on me and send me a care package, they don't last long enough to melt .

[fermi de Sousa]

I try to avoid lollies, especially in winter.
Fortunately for me my favourite ones are not available in Canada, at least  from what I can find out.
When my daughters take pity on me and send me a care package, they don't last long enough to melt .

Violet Crumble? Crunchies?Tim Tams?

[maggiepie]

Chocolate  coated aniseed rings!!!

[Paul T]

Helen,

You're welcome to those, but if Fermi is offering I'll take him up on his list. 

[maggiepie]

Paul, I've never been a Tim Tam person, the biscuits I miss most are Saos and Vita Wheats.
Love both with vegemite.

[maggiepie]

Paul T:  Mmmmmm .... Tim Tams!  Well no wonder you left Aus, if you didn't like Tim Tams.  Maybe you were really railroaded out of the country and you aren't telling us?   

Paul, not keen on malt cept in whisky!!!

[mark smyth]

Is a Tim Tam the same as a P P P P P Penguin?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Tam Looks like a copy

[Maggi Young]

I suppose you  all realise I have been wasting time researching the finer points of Australian sweetmeats.....I'm now quite an expert in such matters.... apart from knowing what they actually TASTE like, of course 
Crunchies? Well, these are  available almost world wide! Made by Cadbury.
Violet Crumble? An Aussie version of a Crunchie, but with Nestle chocolate and a slogan “It’s the Way It Shatters That Matters”
..... Tim Tams? These have been on the market since 1964 and were named to commemorate the winner of the Kentucky Derby, after the Australian biscuit factory owner visted that famous race in the U.S.  Tom Tams are basically just chocolate covered choc cream biscuits, not the exotic fare I somehow imagined from the name...though the notion of th"Tim Tam Slam", is fun.... the chocolate is specially formulated to facilitate the dunking, you know..

Chocolate  coated aniseed rings are extraordinary :  aniseed flavoured jelly rings.... how flaming wierd is THAT?     http://www.confectioneryhouse.com.au/choc_aniseed_rings.htm


These Australians are not as other folk, and that's a fact!! 

[maggiepie]

Maggi, you can get crunchy type things here too, but the chocolate is awful, Australian chocolate is swiss type, not sure what they do here but it tastes totally different.
Chocolate coated aniseed rings are the ultimate in taste experience.
Not always milk chocolate either, some brands use the dark chocolate so then you can get your fix and say you're being healthy!!
 
Btw, a violet crumble bar is much better than a crunchy.

[Lesley Cox]

TTs are very popular here too, in all their flavour variations. Trouble is, not enough in a packet.

My own particular favourite is the Bounty Bar, thick chocolate (I prefer the dark version) over a bar of chewy coconut stuff.

Then there's the Eskimo Pie, just made a reappearance after many years absent from the local freezers, and one of my childhood favourites so quite old. Simply a small block of vanilla ice-cream covered with a layer of chocolate. Declicious.

All this nostalgia must be because there's not a crocus nor a narcissus in sight at present, on the earth's nether regions.

[Anthony Darby]

All this from ice lollies!?

[Maggi Young]

All this from ice lollies!?

Brits may remember the advert for Knorr Stock Cubes with the tag line " Pea and Ham? Frae a Chicken?"


Wonderful where a digression will take us on one of life's rich pathways, is it not?

[Anthony Darby]

Which takes us back to Barbarah Mullen advertising Campbell's soup: "the difference is in the thickness".

[Paul T]

There was an advert here a few years ago for some type of thin chips (i.e not crinkle cut... and for the brits I am talking "crisps").... the byline was "They're not as thick as some."