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Arnott's Tim Tam Mango Flavour 165g Packets 99c, Twisted Faves Shortbread Cream 250g Mango & Cream $1 @ The Reject Shop

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No easy way of checking exists, so I assume statewide or possibly national availability. I bought 1 pack and left at least 160 on the shelving. They have a moderate whiff of mango but no discernible mango flavour. Nor do Kit Kat bars, for which these are a sensible alternative at 11c per biscuit. They are 36% milk chocolate and dated 04/05/2017. Made in Australia.


Arnott's Twisted Faves Shortbread Cream 250g Packets - Mango & Cream - $1 @ The Reject Shop

Although confectioners will name almost any concoction cream, I consider the phrase "Mango & Cream" misleading after perusing the ingredients.

Ingredients: Wheat Flour, Sugar, Vegetable Oil, Salt, Eggs, Baking Powder, Mangoes (0.02%) [honestly!], Emulsifier (Soy Lecithin), Food Acid (Citric Acid), Flavour (Natural), Antioxidant (E307b from Soy), Food Colour (Annatto). CONTAINS EGG, GLUTEN CONTAINING CEREALS AND SOY. MAY CONTAIN TRACES OF MILK, PEANUT, SESAME, TREE NUT AND SPIDER.

One packet end declares THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR QUALITY® unlike the ™ adorning both at https://www.ozbargain.com.au/node/297790 and there is no Health Star rating.

These are acceptable biscuits and quite fresh, but I would not have guessed the mango flavour, and the entire packet contains 0.05g mangoes, which I would have difficulty seeing.

Best Before 11/04/2017. Made in Australia. About 180 packets remained when I left.


Within her sumptuous executive suite at Camden, New Jersey USA, Denise Morrison conducts a semi-formal chat with Wilbur from North Strathfield NSW.

D: So Wilbur, you joined Campbell Soup Company USA upon attaining your Marketing degree and headed Arnott's TimTam division for 5 years?

W: Just after you took the helm of this amazing corporation, Ma'am.

D: Why is the new mango flavour available at Ye Olde Reject Shoppe in Cessnock? Isn't that rather downmarket?

W: No way Ma'am! I infiltrated Australia's foremost bargains website and learnt that store expects a Royal Warrant from that Prince Charles of theirs.

D; Excellent! Welcome to the Board as Vice-President, Wilbur!

We cannot see the value Wilbur, you cretin. The packet contains only 9 flipping biscuits and weighs a meagre 165g. It promises "A delicious combination of crunchy biscuits and mango flavoured cream covered in milk chocolate" and "0.5 Health Star rating". Both ends declare THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE FOR QUALITY™.

Ingredients: sugar, wheat flour, vegetable oil (contains soy), milk solids, cocoa butter, cocoa mass, emulsifiers (soy lecithin, E476), salt, natural food colours (caramel I, annatto), baking powder, mangoes (at last!), food acid (citric acid), flavour. That last word can cover a multitude of sins.

"Hey Fred! Did you get that spider?"

"Um, well, that bastard was fast and … it might now be in Vat 3C. What's the calculator for?"

"Mango flavoured cream? It weighs far less than 0.008% of contents, which we're not legally compelled to specify in the ingredients as anything more than flavour. So keep on pumping out those cookies Roy!"

"Biscuits. Fred. Enjoy your flight, Wilbur."

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  • +1

    No, 208th in line to the throne. Thanks again for OzBargain sponsoring this Royal Warrant campaign, scotty. Your introduction to HRH is certain as we became great chums when I inherited Leicestershire. What happened to our previous comments here? A technical glitch, I suppose.

  • +1

    Jolly good show chap. These peasant offerings were also displayed in the shire of Redlands, South East Queensland. Alas, the Shire is no longer a Shire and has been declared a city.

  • +5

    I try not to go out of my way to hate on things anymore to encourage some personal growth, but these are straight up disgusting.

  • +3

    Never mind that…

    To get Mango Flavoured Cream you have got cows eating Mangos?

    Please explain… lol

    • +2

      Mango flavoured grass actually

      • +2

        eating or smoking? lol

        • +1

          Either way I'm sure the cows enjoy it. Good work Arnott's, putting the cows' happiness first for once.

          …At least I think that's what they were going for, cause surely they knew from product testing that this flavour was going to bomb.

  • +2

    How long until you're the CEO of Reject Shop, PJC?

  • TLDR please

  • +1

    I bought a pack of these the other day. I won't say they taste bad, but definitely unusual and not what you'd expect coming from any type of biscuit. Won't buy them again though.

  • +1

    Saw these at Woolworths (or was it Coles?) when they were on sale. Not worth the risk. At 99c, bought a pack.

    Not as horrible as I thought they'd be. If someone were giving them away for free, I'd pick up a few packs.

  • +1

    Same price at NQR last weekend. I'm sure they would still be available.

  • +1

    They have been adulterating Tim Tams for sometime but Mango Cream is a step way too far.

    • +1

      True, and they can name the shortbread creams Mango & Cream because the 250g pack contains that 0.05gm speck of mangoes. The Tim Tams involve zero mangoes and so are named Mango Flavour. I've just eaten 3 and I would not have guessed the flavour, but as chocolate biscuits, these are an acceptable cheaper alternative to Kit Kat bars.

      • +1

        yeah, but normal Tim Tams are fine the way they are. Not sure where this whole range of different flavour types comes from.

        • +1

          Blame Wilbur. And Fred.

  • +1

    I bought 1 pack and left at least 160 on the shelving.

    What sort of Ozbargainer does that?

  • +2

    This is excellent news! Thanks heaps PJC!

    • +1

      Last Wednesday my wife and I were parked outside Ye Olde Reject Shoppe at Cessnock, between a Bugatti Chiron and a Lamborghini Huracán, opposite a Koenigsegg Regera stationed between a Mercedes-Maybach S600 Pullman and a Pagani Zonda 760 X with a tasteful heliotrope hue. She inquired if Savas felt it was worthwhile visiting the nearby Woolworths that week. I didn't know.

      • +2

        Hahahahaha, thank you! Sounds like you live a rich neighbourhood.

  • +1

    Thanks OP, mum found some today. Looking forward to eating them

    • +2

      Well, a microscopic speck of spider may not kill you. The shortbread creams are nicer than the Tim-Tams, which have a quite disappointing flavour.

      • +1

        Thanks OP, I am going to get just one packet, so shortbread creams it is. Besides, I have tried the twisted faves choc slice in the past, and that was pretty good.

        • +2

          Good choice. At least there is a proper 250g in the packet. $4 per kg is reasonable.

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