the brown dirt they use to make the chocolate comes from winton. 
@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.
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.
'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....
Have an awesome Birthday, Lurks. Many happy Tim Tam returns for the day 
