Tim Tams are Awesome

I'm not actually sure these are sold anywhere other then Australia, so the picture (in case you were entirely oblivious) is of a packet of Tim Tams... basically, you get two rectangular chocolate biscuits (they're quite thick, about 1cm) and stuff chocolate topping in between them, and coat it all with chocolate. Anyway, we were enjoying a packet of Tim Tams as a study snack the other day and my friends were horrified to learn that i know how many Tim Tams there are in a packet (all flavours except caramel or double coated there's 11, caramel and double coated there's 9). Due to this, i thought i'd publicly air some of the random chocolate/lolly trivia i know.

1) there is 96 individual pieces of chocolate in a family sized cadbury block of chocolate. With the exception of the "breakaway" flavour (there's only 48 pieces in that), the all varieties of Cadbury chocoalte in the family variety consist of 12 rows, each with 4 pieces of chocolate.


2) Natural Confectionery Company, Schweppes, Chuppa Chups and Cadbury are all owned by the same company. Which is possibly not odd, seeing as they're all aimed at different markets, but interesting none the less.

3) Reese's Peanut Butter Cups were first sold in the 1920s. As opposed to Hershey's (which obviously bought Reece out at a later stage) which was founded in the 1890s. Also, Hershey's Park was originally only for employees... because what they really needed was another incentive to go work for the best company in the world (not).

Mum's calling for dinner, so i'll leave you with that small amount of knowledge :)