Tim Tam Slam

Tim Tams are a chocolate biscuit made by Arnott's Biscuits, Australia. 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. According to Arnott's, around 35 million packs are sold each year – nearly 400 million biscuits, an average of approximately 1.7 packs per Australian.


So now that you know what a Tim Tam is, you are probably wondering how one "slams" a Tim Tam. Well you get a cup of hot chocolate, bite off both ends of the cookie, place it in the hot chocolate and suck the hot chocolate until the Tim Tam goes soft and you have to slurp it up into your mouth before it falls into the hot chocolate.

I attended my first Tim Tam Slam last week. My flatmate Emily was the reigning Tim Tam Slam champ. She ate over 26 cookies a the slam last year. Jon was the runner up. Here they are with their game faces on. Sure Emily doesn't look like she can eat a lot but this girl can pack it away when she needs to. She is a pie eating champ in addition to being a Tim Tam champ. I think we may start training for Coney Island's Hot Dog contest.


The rules of the slam changed this year. Everyone had 30 minutes after they put their first dipped their first Tim Tam in the hot chocolate to eat as many Tim Tams as they could. Emily was crowned the Tim Tam champ for the second year in the row. She ate 22 cookies in total. Jon tied for 2nd with Camille, who literally lost her cookies. I calculated the calories that were consumed. There are 190 calories in 2 cookies. That means that Emily pounded 2090 calories in one sitting. I believe that at least 2 packages are produced for Emily each year. Way to go Emily. Better luck next year Jon!