Tim Tamilicious

I've done a quick review just to survey previous posts for Tim Tams. There were none, so it's fair game. As cliche as it may be, I haven't done a post yet about the things Aussie that I have come to enjoy. People often ask about what is different from the US of A to Australia, and my response is often: the food. Try finding canned pumpkin or canned black beans here. You'll search til your blue in the face with no joy. Mexican ingredients are hard to come by; given the distance we are from Mexico, it shouldn't be a surprise. You can find the packaged taco ingredients, but fresh tomatillos? Forget it. Any Goya products? Only online. Ancho chilis in adobo sauce? If you're lucky, and buy in bulk. Because when you come back, they probably won't have them.

On the up side, we get oysters and seafood aplenty. I'm hoping the amigos are up for trying this place. OVER FORTY different kinds of oysters. And that's fair dinkum (i.e., no lie).  There's kangaroo at the ready and the sweets and snacks are pretty tasty too.

In a quest at the grocery store yesterday to find all-things-Aussie for some friends arriving tomorrow, I discovered the many varieties of Tim Tams. White chocolate, dark chocolate with mint, chocolate with caramel, double coated, just to mention a few. Tim Tams are delciouslly Australian. Eating one correctly is known as the 'Tim Tam Slam,' as demonstrated here. Apparently this amounts to biting off the ends, dipping it in a cup of tea and then eating the whole 'biscuit' before it melts. So we've got a few for the amigos to try out.

And whoever came up with the concept of 'Tasty Cheese' as a type...like edam or cheddar. 

There is of course the infamed 'roo that most visitors have wanted to try. It comes as a surprise too that it's sold in the grocery store. There are roughly 22 million kangaroos in Australia, compared with almost 23 million people. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, there is one birth every 1 minute and 46 seconds, one death every 3 minutes and 35 seconds, and one international migration every 2 minutes and 20 seconds. All this meaning there is an overall total population increase of one person every 1 minute and 24 seconds.

 My favourite. Chicken flavoured crackers, crisps or pretty much any snack item. Chicken people. It's meat. I get cheese flavoured, because you could make cheese crackers if you so desired. But how would you get the chicken into the cracker. It's just wrong. But chicken salt on the other hand: devine. Nothing ever made more sense that an insanely tasty salt made with chicken flavouring and MSG. Don't knock it til you tried it.

I could go on, but I think I'll stop here for now. The rain has paused for what I hope is a good soild few hours and there's work to be done in the garden.

So to any questions, I say, no worries, mate, I'll catch ya next time round.

Cheers.