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Foods/Drinks/Medicine/Etc. you thought was common outside your country...

IcalasariIcalasari
edited 2012-02-20 02:57:59 in General
No rainbow star
...But isn't?



I just read that smarties (small pieces of candy coated chocolate) and ketchup flavoured chips aren't available in the states D:



Apparently neither is Buckley's (A nasty as hell cold medicine that works remarkably well)



And might as well say Poutine (gravy covered fries) don't seem to be common outside of Canada but I knew that already



Anybody else have stuff in their country they were surprised wasn't widely available in other countries?
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  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    ketchup flavoured chips, what the hell

  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    Tim Tams. 


    Everyone should have Tim Tams. 

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Tim Tams aren't widely available?


    what heathenry is this

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Please describe Tim Tams



    And Cygan don't knock ketchup flavoured chips
  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales

    ketchup flavoured chips, what the hell


  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Shut up you heathens >: |
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    A Tim Tam is composed of two layers of chocolate-malted biscuit, separated by a light chocolate cream filling, and coated in a thin layer of textured chocolate.



  • IcalasariIcalasari
    edited 2012-02-20 03:12:38
    No rainbow star
    Oh, we have something similar to those. Kit Kats



    Although I have a feeling Tim Tams are to Kit Kats as Smarties are to M&M's - Technically the same thing but the flavour differs quite a bit



    Edit: Somehow missed the cream part and chocolate wafer part



    Tim tams are officially superior
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    Kit Kats are chocolate bars, more related to wafers, whereas Tim-Tams are basically biscuits.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    We should do a trade. I send over some ketchup flavoured chips (the taste is different than you might expect) and you send over some tim tams (although it might be more fair to send me something I think I won't like but you think I will)
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    edited 2012-02-20 03:19:49
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    MASTER TECHNIQUE: TIM TAM SLAM


    Requirements: Some kind of hot drink, a Tim Tam. 


    Step 1: Bite a little chunk off one corner of the Tim Tam, then do it again to the opposite corner, so if you were to draw a line between the bites, it would be diagonal through the middle. 


    Step 2: Place one of these corners in your hot drink and suck it through the Tim Tam like a straw, but only for a few seconds. 


    Step 3: Consume your now internally-melted Tim Tam. 

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    I don't think so.


    We had tomato sauce-flavoured chips at one point in Australia. They stopped production because nobody bought them because seriously, tomato sauce flavoured chips.

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    MASTER TECHNIQUE: TIM TAM SLAM



    that is really nice


    but now I want some tim-tams :/

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    ^^ How did they taste? Because it sounds like they did it wrong
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    They tasted like tomato sauce and potato chips.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Then they did it wrong



    Ketchup chips taste sweet with just a hint of the ketchup flavour



    If it tasted like straight tomato sauce then they fucked up
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    I'll be fucked if I remember what they tasted like exactly. That was over a decade ago.

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    If they did it right then maybe Australians just don't know what tastes good
  • MadassAlexMadassAlex
    One foot in front of the other, every day.

    > the country that produced Tim Tams
    > doesn't know what tastes good


    >:| 

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    Bah, you got lucky with tim tams
  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    > canada


    > taste

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    >Saying Canada doesn't have taste

    >Not liking Ketchup flavoured chips



  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    And in the very next post, you prove my point. Thanks!

  • IcalasariIcalasari
    edited 2012-02-20 04:16:41
    No rainbow star
    Bah, even my girlfriend (lives in the states) thinks they sound gross



    I think you're all insane


    The silence is clearly you graciously accepting defeat and is not at all because I killed the thread by defending the honour of chips >.> <.<
  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales

    We had tomato sauce flavoured crisps but not ketchup flavoured chips because people just covered chips with ketchup anyway

  • NovaNova
    If you must eat a phoenix, boil it, do not roast it. This only encourages their mischievous habits.

    And now we move on to a discussion of why Britain is stupid for changing the names of everything then.

  • WhaleWhale
    Champion of the Whales

    We did it to troll the rest of the English speaking world ofc ^^

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    We have tomato and basil flavor chips over here.


    They're not that good.

  • SaigyoujiSaigyouji
    But you never had any to begin with.

    On this note, can someone from the US explain the rationale behind paying £12 for 10 "Krispy Kreme" doughnuts? They've recently appeared over here, and that's damned expensive. :|

  • CrimsonCrimson
    Give us fire! Give us ruin! Give us our glory!

    ^Krispy Kreme shut down most of their stores a couple years ago, I guess they're just selling pre-packaged donuts to stay afloat.

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