Oh yeah these are the shit, the hint of salt contrasting the caramel and chocolate just nothing else to say 
I think you are right. It is very hard to go past the original chocolate, these other flavours are a bit of a novelty. Doubt they would out sell the originals.
Like you mentioned about your chocolates over there, it is different. I love it. Very creamy, and less sweet. I actually love dark chocolate simply because it is less sweet. The Tim Tam chocolate sits right between dark chocolate and our milk chocolate very happily. It’s like my perfect idea of chocolate.
Same with that Freddo (I think?). We have a similar candy here. But it is a lot sweeter.
I found it very interesting how different in some ways they were. I forgot about the creamy part when I was tasting them the other night. But that would be a major difference on top of the sweetness level.
Not sure I’d be able choose any of the Yank chocolate over the ones I’ve tried so far. Still a few to go.
The Nerds are a different story.
I think I saw this in your box…better than Freddo…
That is what I meant. The caramel bear. Yeah, that was great.
I’d reckon the caramels are different too on top of the chocolate differences.
Why I wonder if that’s why I have trouble with these flavours when mixing. Most of the concentrates would come from the northern hemisphere.
Maybe, but from what I have found, most flavors are slightly lower in sweetness. Still, they may be higher for you.
I ate that other chocolate Tim Tam and I still swear if my eyes were closed, I would think it was a Fudge Stripe cookie. The cookie flavor is almost identical. Just a different texture as the Tim Tam is a lighter wafer, and the Fudge Stripe is a bit denser cookie.
Can’t see the packet ones over here. But saw the recipes but 
Damn your american blogging recipes, can never just give me the fuckin recipe. 
I know. They have to tell you everything from their bra size to the last time they used a sex toy before you get to the damn recipe. But if you look, most of those stupid sites have a button to jump to the recipe. No idea when that blogging shit started, but it’s pretty damn dumb.
Found it that will make things easier and I can stop whinging about your bloggers 
The recipe that I looked at doesn’t appear to be greatly different in sugar than ones you would see here. But that’s homemade
Did they have malt in them? Because I taste that in the Tim Tams, and to be honest, I never paid attention to that in the Fudge Stripes. But I next time I get them I am going to pay more attention. Haven’t had them in awhile, as they aren’t high on my list of snacks.
No malt in the recipe but it’s not that common in home made.
The only time I would make malty biscuits is when I make Milo ones.
Thanks to this thread my Milo consumption has gone through the roof. Had to by the bigger tin.
Mine is freakin half gone! I wonder if Tim Tams puts Milo in their biscuits? 
I wouldn’t think so Arnott’s is a direct competitor to Nestles I think
Do you know who owns Arnotts?
Spoiler alert. US based Campbell Soup Company. Which is really fing strange.
Yeah there was a bit of an uproar when they bought them out back in the 90s.
A lot of Aussie companies sold out during that recession.
Sad. Really freakin sad. But it says they kept manufacturing in Australia. Which explains why it is hard for us to get them.
Man, our compadres are slipping. 24 hrs and no one made any juvenile jokes? 
Ok, ok. I’ll restrain myself But when I was a young lad we had some sugar cane that grew wild and we would sneak a knife out of the house and chop a piece. Better than candy.
My guess is the percentage of moisture 
I recently watched a video about making Cannoli and before that I never really thought about moisture in cheese other than most shredded mozzarella is said to be “low moisture.” Here Laura discusses Ricotta.
Well duh. But never knew cheese had a moisture level I need to be aware of. I have a hard enough time choosing between sharp, extra sharp, and holy fucking hell sharp.
It may be some nutrition information standard in NZ - I don’t know. It just reminded me of the Cannoli video.
Damn, now I want a cannoli.
Lol. After seeing that I went and made me some peanut butter and banana egg rolls