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Old Feb 28, 2008 | 8:40 am
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Originally Posted by TIMP
Bassetts Jelly Babies and wine gums. Even though we can get them here in Australia, they taste BETTER if bought from the UK. Unique Australian? Tim Tams. Mum was sending me care packages when I lived in the UK made up entirely of Tim Tams and Natural Confectionary jellies - neither of which lasted very long once word got around the expat aussies at college taht I had a stash.
Mmmm - can your mom send me a care package? I tried Tim Tams for the first time when we were in Australia in December, and brought 3 packages home with me to the U.S. They are so good, and I like how I can justify to myself that they are a tea biscuit, and not a candy bar....
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