Talk:Tim Tam

message: *Do not merge One is a biscuit... the other, a cultural icon! Garrie 23:13, 29 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge with Tim Tam slam 

message: The site was changed from .com.au  to just .com ()
- Please make this noted in the external links and references  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 210.49.132.195 (talk) 14:32, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Arnotts Australia website domain 

message: This picture is not representative, as the colour balance is wrong.  A real Tim Tam looks like light milk chocolate, and this image is almost black.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by AlastairIrvine (talk • contribs) 13:39, 10 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I imagine it's a dark chocolate one. --McGeddon (talk) 17:03, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture Image:Tim_tam.jpg 

message: Just bought a packet of Tim Tams in Safeways, Calgary, Alberta. Delicious, and very different from the British Penguin on which it is supposed to be based. The packet says "Made in Australia". The store was selling Original and Caramel. (Next week, I will try the Caramel.) I couldn't see how to incorporate this information into the article; perhaps somebody else can. HairyWombat (talk) 02:24, 5 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tim Tams in Canada 

message: This bit is incorrect. They did not "suddenly drop all mention of Tim Tams" in "Spring 2010". I've been buying my Tim Tams from Cost Plus World Market since 2006 and they have NEVER had "Tim Tams" on the label. They have always appeared as they do in the link as "Arnott's Originals" etc. This is not a recent change that "suddenly happened in Spring 2010". For instance, you can see on this blog - http://wanderingchopsticks.blogspot.com/2007/08/tim-tams.html  - about someone being mailed Tim Tams from Australia there's a picture of some Australian Tim Tams and the seventh comment talks about being able to get them from Cost Plus where they are labeled simply as "Arnott's Originals" (this is from 2007) - I know this isn't a suitable source for the encyclopaedia, but I think it's a backup for my argument that the lack of "Tim Tams" on the label is not a new development at Cost Plus.Mandurahmike (talk) 00:35, 6 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incorrect info about Cost Plus Tim Tams. 

message: This delicious biscuits are also popular among university students at the University of British Columbia, Simon Fraser University, and Trinity Western University.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.80.181.242 (talk) 03:21, 12 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ctrl+F this 

message: You can do it with oreos, provided they are either the fudge or white fudge covered ones.  But the oreo wafer is very light and airy in comparison to the tim tam's.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.33.12.15 (talk) 03:10, 31 December 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Oreos 

message: User:WWGB has added a photo of Jimbo Wales to the Tim Tim Slam section of the article, with edit summaries explaining that there is "room for two" photos to illustrate this small section, and that using a picture of Wikipedia's co-founder "adds Wikipedia-related content".
I'm not aware of any policy that encourages Wikipedia-referencing illustrations (if anything, WP:SELFREF discourages it). But WP:PERTINENCE specifically advises against "multiple images with very similar content" and specifically encourages "a reasonable level of variety in the age, gender, and race of any people depicted": the two images suggested are almost identical, being middle-aged, balding white men enjoying a Tim Tam with a small cup of coffee. Which image better illustrates the concept of the Tim Tam Slam? --McGeddon (talk) 10:28, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: ... noting that the first photo was added by said subject of that photo. Self-promotion, anyone? WWGB (talk) 11:49, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: If it's a good picture, it's not actively promoting anything and it wasn't put there in place of a better photo, I don't see a problem. Which of the two pictures do you think best illustrates the subject? --McGeddon (talk) 12:38, 31 March 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I think there is room for both photos in the article. Perhaps the Tim Tam-in-mouth better represents the technique, but a photo of Jimbo attempting a local challenge also adds a quirky edge to the article. It's not like this article is pulling in thousands of readers. It's just a fringe/backwater piece where two images create absolutely no harm or conflict. A classic case of WP:IAR. WWGB (talk) 11:14, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: If the Tim Tam Slam section were bigger, there would be room for two photos, but it's just six sentences. WP:LAYIM suggests that if a section's images are spilling into the next one, either the section should be expanded or the pictures reduced. You can argue that it might be better to have a "quirky" photo than an illustrative one, here, but there are two strong MOS reasons for not illustrating a short section with two similar images of white men eating biscuits. --McGeddon (talk) 11:28, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: All of which is just making a biscuit in a teacup into a storm in a teacup. WWGB (talk) 11:41, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: If you think the photo is important enough to add to the article, but not important enough to discuss, I'll wait for a third opinion. --McGeddon (talk) 14:58, 8 April 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Jimbo Wales picture 

message: Substituted at 08:49, 30 April 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Assessment comment

message: From the article: "When Coles refused the cost increase, Arnott's refused to supply the chain for two weeks."
So what? What happened after that? TooManyFingers (talk) 15:08, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Pricing 

message: According to the article, "largely within Australia".
OK ... where outside of Australia are they also made? TooManyFingers (talk) 15:14, 22 August 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Production 

message: :As of 2021, a counterpart is sold in the Netherlands in Jumbo supermarkets under the name "Dip&Nip Cookies".
Are these actually tim tams or just some other biscuit in the same style? I can't read Dutch but as far as I can tell, the source doesn't seem to state any relation. https://www.jumbo.com/jumbo-dipnip-cookies-melkchocolade-11-stuks-200g/386709DS/
If not it's kind of irrelevant.
86.184.42.181 (talk) 12:16, 17 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dutch "counterpart"