Tim Tam Slam
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[Don't ever do this!!!!] The Tim Tam Slam or Tim Tam Orgasm[citation needed] is the practice of drinking a hot beverage (mostly coffee) through a Tim Tam (a commercial biscuit). Penguin biscuits available in the United Kingdom may also be used.
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. When the biscuit collapses it is pushed into the mouth.
The Arnott's company used the name Tim Tam Suck in a 2002 advertising campaign.[1][2]
Equivalent practices are possible with other biscuits, such as the Penguin and Breakway biscuits, available in the United Kingdom, and the Twix, available in the United States. In an article in 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] The addition of Bailey's or another dessert liquor to the hot beverage of choice is an additional option for adult participants.
World record attempt
On Australia Day in 2004, 200 people in a pub in Croydon, England, and reportedly 30,000 people in Walkabout pubs throughout the United Kingdom as a whole, attempted to set a record for tea-sucking, using Tim Tams.[4]
See also
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. [dead link]
- ^ 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.