Tim Tam Slam
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The Tim Tam Slam is the practice of drinking a cold beverage ie; milk, through a Tim Tam (a commercial biscuit). The creator of the Tim Tam Slam is Andrew Barrow.
Process
Opposite corners of the Tim Tam are bitten off, one end is submerged in the drink, and the drink sucked through the biscuit. The crisp inside biscuit is softened and the outer chocolate coating begins to melt.
Ideally, the inside of the biscuit should collapse but the outside should remain intact long enough for the liquid to reach the mouth. Refrigerating them helps to preserve the outside coating while allowing the inside of the biscuit to melt. The thicker chocolate coating on the Double Coat Tim Tam offers a more stable structure to prevent a premature collapse. The caramel centre of the Chewy Caramel variety helps to hold the biscuit together for a slightly longer time.
The Arnott's company used the name Tim Tam Suck in a 2002 advertising campaign.[1][2]
Similar biscuit practices
Equivalent practices are possible with other biscuits. In an article in the The Oberlin Review, Cat Richert reports attempting the practice in the United States using Oreo cookies after returning from a trip to Tasmania, but without success. Other chocolate coated biscuits can be used, with the MintSlice biscuit also being a firm favourite in Australia.[3]
World Record Attempt
On Australia Day in 2004, 200 people in a pub in Croydon, England, and reportedly 30,000 people throughout the United Kingdom as a whole, attempted to set a record for tea-sucking, using Tim Tams.[4]
Popular culture
A Tim Tam Slam was performed by Natalie Imbruglia and host Graham Norton on the So Graham Norton television series in the United Kingdom. American actress Jennifer Love Hewitt also performed one live on Rove McManus's Australian talk show Rove Live after professing her love for the biscuit.
Other People to have done this are David Beckham, Robbie Williams, and the Minouge sisters
References
- ^ Arnott's Tim Tam Official Website (Internet Archive cache 6 Jun 2002) Accessed 14 Jan 2008.
- ^ Australian Business Intelligence site search results Accessed 14 Jan 2008.
- ^ Cat Richert (2002-04-19). "Adventures From a Land Under the Land Down Under". Oberlin Review.
- ^ "Tea-sucking record attempt". Croydon Guardian. 2004-01-30.