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Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

icyfroth — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:24:45 GMT

Most 50-year-olds would do well to ease back on the sweets, but this popular Aussie is still going strong despite consuming 20 tonnes of chocolate each day.

Tim Tam, the world's most popular biscuit, turned 50 on Sunday.

To celebrate the biscuit's anniversary, Tim Tam and Qantas flew people to Winton, in central west Queensland, for a reunion with the loved ones they aren't able to see often.

"Aussies have loved and connected over Tim Tam biscuits for 50 years. To celebrate this milestone, in 2014 we're launching a year of togetherness," Arnott's marketing director Susanna Polycarpou.

People from across Australia and as far away as the UK flew to the remote town, which is also the birthplace of Qantas, for a "chocolate-filled birthday extravaganza."

Each day the Arnott's factory uses 20 tonnes of chocolate to pump out 3000 biscuits each minute.

Link To Article And New Video

What's the connection between Winton and Tim Tam Biscuits?

Re: Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

lakeland27 — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 22:49:19 GMT

the brown dirt they use to make the chocolate comes from winton.

Re: Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

icyfroth — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:12:36 GMT

@lakeland27 wrote:
the brown dirt they use to make the chocolate comes from winton.

Erm...no I don't think so Lakes...

I just googled Winton. It's amongst other things, the birthplace of Qantas, the site of 3 dinosaur fossil finds and Banjo Paterson first penned Waltzing Matilda while staying at a local sheep station.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winton,_Queensland

It's more the Australian Heritage thing. Campbell's (the US company that now owns Arnott's) is making a big play on that.

Re: Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

lakeland27 — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:28:19 GMT

it was just a guess

i had friends who worked for Arnotts in Adelaide, one used to bring home 2 kilo blocks of chocolate (they used to fill the machines with the blocks, which were about the same size as a hardcover book) he used to make all kinds of chocolate deserts from them.. to the point everyone was sick of the stuff.

Re: Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

electric*mayhem*band — Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:35:11 GMT

'People from across Australia and as far away as the UK flew to the remote town'

Never heard of them here in the UK, nor have I ever seen them in any outlet, or advertised on TV, magazines, or newspapers. I understand though - after doing a search - that you can get them from certain web sites.

Anyway....

Re: Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

j*oono — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:01:50 GMT

mmmMMMmm... Tim Tams. Full of palm oil goodness.

Re: Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

cherry*135 — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 00:26:08 GMT

I am going to put a mini pack of them in a parcel I am sending my daughter this week who is in Spain for 6mths.
I am not even sure if she likes them though.

Re: Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

lurker17260 — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 01:07:30 GMT

You can all send me packets of TimTams then, because it's my birthday today too 🙂

Re: Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

cherry*135 — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 01:18:54 GMT

Happy birthday lurker. 🙂

Re: Tim Tam Turns 50 Today!

icyfroth — Mon, 17 Feb 2014 01:49:49 GMT

Have an awesome Birthday, Lurks. Many happy Tim Tam returns for the day