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Judi Oct 20, 2005

http://rds.yahoo.com/S=96062883/K=choco … 1129902205
Here's a chocolate bear on a stick to stir into your coffee...mmmmmmm

You can all come to my house and help us milk cows???

Daphne Oct 20, 2005

Lamingtons sound YUMMMMMMMY!!! Love coconut!

Shelli Retired Help Advisor, Banner SponsorOct 20, 2005

I would LOVE to milk a cow.  But also... ewww! 

I will show up at your doorstep someday, Judi, milk bucket in hand, mohair tucked under my arm... just you wait and see...

Daphne Oct 20, 2005

Melissa, come visit in 2007!!! 

SueAnn Help Advisor, Banner SponsorOct 20, 2005

Do you Aussies have any recipes without coconut???  Not my favorite thing . . . especially the canned stuff!  The texture is just absolutely hairy and it's tooooooo sweet!!!

newbearland Oct 21, 2005

So who invented ANZAC biscuits and lamingtons anyway...the Aussies or the kiwis???? it is that old Pavlova debate all over again!!......although on saying that I think lamingtons are Aussie  :doh:

Daphne I'm friends with Melissa can I come too???? 

Mel

Daphne Oct 21, 2005

But of course Melanie! (As long as you bring some of your bears! I want to meet them face to face!) The more bear-a-holics the better! I'll kick my hubby out for a few days (as long as he takes the dogs!) and we can have a blast!  :dance: Anyone else?

newbearland Oct 21, 2005

Awww you are sweet  - now I just have to stop spending money and save that airfare 

I Love Teddies Oct 21, 2005

This question is for the Aussies:
Have you heard of chocolate biscuits called Tim Tams?  We received some as a present from an Australian and said they were good.  They are great!  I just wondered if you had heard of them and if they were popular there.  I wonder if we can get them anywhere here in the US.  Yum!  Yet another reason I want to go to Australia!

Densteds Oct 21, 2005

YUMMMOO!!! Sarah...I can feel the weight going on just thinking about them...I love anzac bickies... lamingtons too!!!!

Chrissie....I had a tim tam last night...another yummo!!! you can get them with double chocolate inside & out, also with thicky chewy caramel inside....hang on..need a tissue I'm salivating...and heading for the biscuit tin...

Just did a google and found this site in US that sells them..notice some are out of stock
http://www.simplyoz.com/products/aussie … s/tim_tams

:hug: Denise.

melissa Oct 21, 2005

Chrissie

Tim Tams are the best!  You can buy them in the States here  http://www.simplyoz.com/products/aussie_food/candy  There's also an NZ shop in the states that has them but I can't find it.  I assume that price is heinously expensive for biscuits in the States though!! 

of course biscuits being cookies and not scones!

Do try the chewy caramel - my absolute favourite - especially if they've chilled in the fridge for a while.  They haven't got all the flavours we have in New Zealand - I don't know if they have them in aussie - dark chilli chocolate an dark choc with a white choc centre.

If you have tim tams you have to do a tim tam slam....and of course we'll need photos as proof!

They also have cadbury's chocolate on that site which is way different to the US brand of cadburys but again they don't have my favourite as flavours vary between different countries (even aus and nz!)

I Love Teddies Oct 23, 2005

Denise and Melissa,
We already ate them (they went pretty fast in the house) and I think we had the original flavor.  I didn't know there were different flavors.  When I go to Australia one day, I think I'm going to have to send a huge (and I do mean huge  ) box of them home.  I bookmarked that site.  Yummy!

matilda Oct 23, 2005

I don't care where we go as long as Matilda brings that caramel chocolate fudge cake she was talking about a while ago.

by crikey you have a good memory Deb!!!!
I'll write out the recipe tommorrow, Hopefully, maybe, I'll try anyway.

Now for TIMTAMs well they are just the best bickie in the whole entire world. It is a know fact that it was only for the TIMTAM secret that the Americans bought out the Arnotts company.

and until I'm blue in the face will defend the humble old original first flavour TimTAm. Don't care for the rest, the original is the best.

Watcha do is bite the end off the bickie and then dip it into your coffee .And then if you time it right you pull it out and plop into your mouth before it collapses.
AND I can eat a whole packet in one sitting all by myself!!!!!  I dont share timtams I hide them cause they're mine all mine I say all mine .......... :twisted: :twisted: :twisted:

rufnut Oct 24, 2005

Ohhhhh yeah you gotta love those Tim Tams, yummy.   What out hips.   

Must admit a Baileys Irish cream after that coffee tooo...... Even some Schnappps....  hick hick hick  :dance:

Deb Oct 24, 2005

I'll write out the recipe tommorrow, Hopefully, maybe, I'll try anyway.

Thank you!  Whenever you get to it, could you email it to me?

Now for TIMTAMs well they are just the best bickie in the whole entire world.

What's a bickie?  I need to know these things in order to keep up with the topic!

rufnut Oct 24, 2005

Deb, Bickie is short for biscuit, or Cookie.  Aussies shorten everything 

Deb Oct 24, 2005

Ahhhh ... that may help me figure out a few on my own!  Thank you!  :hug:

Jellybelly Bears Oct 27, 2005

Deb, Bickie is short for biscuit, or Cookie.  Aussies shorten everything  :lol:

Sad I missed following this topic.  Tim Tams!! Yummo!!  We were just having the same discussion on the aussie bear board lol.  I think some members are doing swaps with food there hehe

and I didn't realise how much we do shorten words until I spoke to a few American friends with the mic... breakie, pressie even mozzie are unheard of lol.  I thought that was so funny.  We are the inventors of slack speach  hehe
Hugs Sarah

Daphne Oct 27, 2005

Breakie....??? Pressie????? Mozzie?????     
Huh, Sarah!?!?!?!?!  :doh: You must share the definitions with us Americans now!!!

Delartful Bears Oct 27, 2005

LOL
Breakkie = Breakfast
Pressie = Pressie
Mozzie = Mosquito
and a few more that came to mind
Chrissie = Christmas
din dins = Dinner
uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuh my mind has gone blank-- but you get the idea LOL

Danni

jazzyrags Oct 27, 2005

Danni what about bangers and mash  :lol:toodal loo is that how you spell it 

Jellybelly Bears Oct 27, 2005

I hope this works coz it was in table form.  Its fun tho...I didn't realise we 'had' so many words that were ours lol
hehe
hugs sarah  :rose:

Ankle biter    Small Child
Arvo    Afternoon, "I'll be there this arvo."
Agro    Aggrivated, angry
Away with the pixies    Daydreaming
Aussie (pronounced Ozzie)    Australian
Back of beyond    Way away from civilisation
Barrack    Root for, cheer, "I barrack for the Magpies."
Bathers    Swim trunks
Billabong    Watering hole
Billy    A metal can to boil tea over a fire
Biscuits    Cookies
Bitumen    Asphalt road
Bloke    Man
Blowies    Blow flies
Bum    The part of you that sits on a chair, your bottom.
Bush    Land outside the city
Bush telegraph    The town gossip
Car park    Parking lot
Chips    French fries
Chook    Chicken
Chrissie    Christmas
Cockie    Farmer
Cocky    Cockatoo
Cuppa    Cup of tea or coffee
Dag    Amusingly uncoordinated, "he's such a dag"
Daks    Underpants
Dinki-di    Something good from Australia
Dilly bag    Small food bag or carry bag
Digger    Australian soldier
Didgeridoo    Aboriginal wind instrument
Dob (in)    Snitch (most Australians won't)
Engaged (phone)    busy, "the phone is engaged."
Fair dinkum    Someone or something genuine
Fairy Floss    Cotton candy
Footy    Australian Rules Football
Fred Nerk    Someone imaginary, "I suppose Fred Nerk did it?"
G'day    Australian for hello
Good on ya    Good job, good for you
Great Australian wave    Swatting flies away from your face
Grog    Alcohol
Give way (traffic sign)    Yield
Happy as Larry    Very happy
Icy pole    Popsicle
jelly    jell-o
Joe Bloggs    Mr average citizen, John Doe
Journo    Journalist
Jumper    Sweater
Kit    A pack with your belongings
Lollies    Candy
Lift    Elevator
Mackers    McDonald's
Mate    Friend
Matilda    Sleeping bag or roll
Milk bar    Convenience store
Mozzie    Mosquito
Mum and dad    Mother and father
Nappy    Diaper
No worries    No problem at all
Nong    Idiot, "you nong!"
Ooroo    Goodbye
Oy!    Hey!
Oz    Australia
Panel beater    Auto body shop
Petrol    Gasoline
Prezzies    Presents
Push bike    Bicycle
Rellies    Relatives
Rubber    Pencil eraser
Sacked    Fired from your job
Scones (short O)    Biscuits
My shout    I'll pay this time
Singlet    Undershirt or tank top
Stickybeak    Nosy person
Snag    Sausage
Shonky    A questionable deal
Swag    Canvas bag for your belongings
Ta    Thanks
Tea    Dinner
Tucker    Food
Tuckshop    School cafeteria or snack shop
Ute    Utility vehicle, pickup truck
Whinge    Complain all the time, "what's he whinging about now?"
Woop Woop    A long way from civilisation
Yobbo    Redneck
You Right?    May I help you?  Do you need anything?

Deb Oct 27, 2005

Wow!  Well ... we'll just try to keep up, best we can.  :thumbsup:

I know one time I overheard my niece say to my daughter "I have to check with rents."  I asked her what in the world she was talking about.  "PARENTS Aunt Deb; get it ... rents?"  Cracked me up.

Daphne Oct 27, 2005

LOL..... Ta Sarah! no promises we'll be able to talk the talk but at least we'll understand what you Aussies are trying to say! Now if we can remember this dictionary is on the coffee time topic we'll be all set!

Now I need to go get my stickybeak puppy out of the trash can and have a cuppa!
(There, how'd I do???)  :D

Ooroo!
Daphne

Gatehouse Bears Oct 27, 2005

Stone the flamin' crows, you mob are getting good at this. Crickey!!

Glenys