The Australian Zeitgeist Tracking Thread

The bars were originally made by Mackintosh's at their Halifax factory but in recent years are now made in a factory in Castleford in West Yorkshire. Toffee Crisp was due to move to Rowntree's Fawdon factory in Newcastle. However, because of a fire at the Fawdon factory (the week before the final production run at Halifax), this did not happen. The staff at Castleford hurriedly reformulated the bar (unofficially because it wasn't intending to make the bar on the extruded plant in Castleford) and the old-style bar which was made in metal moulds, changed into an extruded bar which allowed it to be made without the investment in a moulding plant

The idea for Toffee Crisp bars originated after an idea from John Henderson, the great-nephew of John Mackintosh – his wife Edith used to make Rice Crispie and chocolate cakes for their two children – he took some of these to the factory, and work began on developing a new product in the early 1960s. When the chocolate coated crispy bar was submitted to the Board they felt it needed something more, so after a lot of work from the experimental department, a soft toffee was added along the top, and Toffee Crisp was born.

The bars are sold in a bright orange wrapper with the words "Toffee Crisp" written with rounded lettering, bright yellow in colour with brown shadowing taking up most of the front. The texture of the bar is varied with the chocolate coating and the filling. A typical Toffee Crisp bar contains 12.2 g of fat, 8.0 g of which is saturated and 229 calories (11% of an adult's Recommended Daily Amount). Prices can range from 45p–65p.

for some reason i was imagining crisps in the chips sense

and thought that sounded revolting

all of the above otm except for the crisp bit

the bit about the crisp bit sounding revolting otm tho

Nestle so I wouldn't anyway but

this

toffee crips

I dont eat sweets :/

VInes singer beats up his parents, paper feels the need to inform us "btw he has Aspbergers".

(and as someone w/several friends with that illness that peeves me unutterably)

aspie brute

sigh

I'm no doctor but there is a difference between "Aspergers" and "Dickhead".

Here's a heartwarming family story: http://www.couriermail.com.au/news/emilie-and-sonya-welch-plead-guilty-to-sharing-same-sexual-health-certificate-while-working-in-brothels/story-e6freon6-1226497319716

"hi we have regular lives now so heres a story with our photos in it saying we were prossies - nothin suss!"
wtf

"I'm a heavy believer in Christianity; it was just a down period for me."

HOOKERS FOR CHRIST

congrats anthony mundine on alienating both trendy lefties and nutbag bigots

http://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/restaurants-and-bars/blogs/table-talk/how-eating-in-sydney-makes-you-fat-20120817-24cci.html

i want that sundae.

"wah Im a food writer and have to eat all this delicious grossness all the time and omg my WAISTLINE but hey its ok cos Fairfax pay me to be a pig and use the word "jumble" constantly in my tapas reviews"

...Im sorry I just have a rampant hatred of Larissa Dubecki's reviews.

i want taquitos

i had enchiladas.

As long as it doesn't mean I have to eat out of jam jars I'm happy

Drink, rather

Just take a look at what has happened to our menus over the past five or six years. No longer is carpaccio of hiramasa kingfish the default dish on every Sydney menu.

oh sure, I remember not being able to move for harajuku stonefield back in '07

then again I've eaten at about a third of the places he goes on to big up so ;_;

and

They’ve even made gross-out desserts cool by giving them drug-fuelled connotations as in Ms G’s "Stoner’s Delight" - the question being who needs drugs when you can get a sugar hit this big from a platter of doughnut ice cream, peanut butter, salted potato-chip praline, mars bar slice and banana fritter.

hey guys

would prob require some uppers after that lot

ed, I went for a drink later that week, guess what my scotch was served in??

Srsly food writers all need to be locked in a bad Hungry Jacks for a week and force fed.

And I mean. I love food, cooking, cooking shows, reading Epicure but ffs.

hey jam jars are a good way to serve less beer at the same price fun to drink out of!!

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/wdyll/bloodybraz.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/kitbrash/wdyll/bloodybraz_can.jpg

start canning on, son

ACTIVATED ALMONDSSSSSSS

on one hand i feel bad about jumping on the 'this guy is a wanker' train, on the other hand this pseudo-scentific wheatgrass-a-like bullshit under the banner of "healthy eating" winds me up something fierce and he can get fucked

GUESS WHAT LOSER YOU DIE LIKE THE REST OF US HAHAHAHA

Meanwhile Evans' Wikipedia page was altered, describing him as "an Australian chef, author, television personality and proud owner of activated almonds.".

i misread his 3pm snack regime as one containing 'cacao nips'

ooh

activated what whats now?

brb off to go play some activated biscuit

feeling a little hoarse

theres laws against that u kno

24 horses 1 cup

omg

HAYDEN D:

it's the video post that had to be made

it's the post that u had to be pipped at

wow

Meet 'bronies' -- grown men who are fans of My Little Pony