Found this article and thought some of you might be interested. I've
seen Tim Tams at Jungle Jim's, but haven't tried them yet.


"Canberra (Reuters)
....
Biscuit maker Arnott's release this week of Tia Maria Tim Tams and
Kahlua Slices prompted fears that the chocolate-coated cookies would give
children a taste for alcohol."

http://news.myway.com/odd/article/id/383389|oddlyenough|02-05-2004%3A%3A07%3A47
|reuters.html

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Ariane

Dog3 dognospam@adjfkdla;not wrote in
4:

Ariane Jenkins deliciously posted in
:



Found this article and thought some of you might be interested. I've
seen Tim Tams at Jungle Jim's, but haven't tried them yet.


"Canberra (Reuters)
...
Biscuit maker Arnott's release this week of Tia Maria Tim Tams and
Kahlua Slices prompted fears that the chocolate-coated cookies would
give children a taste for alcohol."

How absurd. It's the parent's responsibility to see the children do
not nibble the cookies. God, any kid can just as easily grab a bottle
of vodka from the folks bar if they were hell bent on doing so. Same
with cookies. If they're afraid the cookies will get junior/ette
hammered, lock up the cookies or stock up on baby aspirin.


The biscuits only have a minute alcohol content - 0.1%. Hard to get drunk
on them! This was a pretty big story here - on all the news programs. The
concern is not so much with the fact that they contain alcohol, but more
to do with the fact that it's associating alcohol with biscuits. The
concern is that it's just further reinforcing the culture of drinking in
Australia. I don't know - as I heard someone say on one of the news
shows, rum and raisin icecream has been around for years and we don't
have a huge rum problem with kids. However, I like Tim Tams as they are -
don't know why the need to lace them with Kahlua or Tia Maria, other than
as a marketing ploy. I did hear that they were aimed at young women (20s
- 30s) who apparently like to eat Tim Tams in the evening while watching
TV (according to their market research).

Rhonda Anderson
Cranebrook, NSW, Australia

Rhonda Anderson

Dog3 wrote:

Ariane Jenkins says:

Found this article and thought some of you might be interested. I've
seen Tim Tams at Jungle Jim's, but haven't tried them yet.


"Canberra (Reuters)
...
Biscuit maker Arnott's release this week of Tia Maria Tim Tams and
Kahlua Slices prompted fears that the chocolate-coated cookies would
give children a taste for alcohol."

How absurd.

The biscuits only have a minute alcohol content - 0.1%. Hard to get drunk
on them!

Yeah, about the same as is contained in fermented *yeast* dough... no more
pizza for yoose rugrats. Friggin' idiots!


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