I have discovered the most amazing teaching resource ever!! It’s called Teaching Film, Television and Media, and consists of 12 modules, each with pages and pages of information, summaries, resources, links to papers and articles based in theory, loads of practical examples / lesson plan ideas, and traversing the field REALLY well!! I discovered it accidentally by googling myself and finding myself referenced (and quoted!) under the module about methods for conducting media ethnographies. I am so impressed with this site, its going in my unit outlines next year!
So yesterday Jackie and I were talking about expats and what they ask their friends to send them from home, and I told her I was constantly sending my friends overseas packets of Tim Tams. Tim Tams are the most DIVINE Australian chocolate biscuit!
They come with various types of fillings and various types of chocolate coating.
My favourite is double coat because I am a chocoholic.
I also tried to explain to Jackie about the cultural phenomenon of the tim tam slam. I am convinced she thought I was making the entire story up but here is proof from wikipedia!!!
The Tim Tam Slam is the practice of drinking a beverage by sucking it through a Tim Tam, an Australian chocolate-covered biscuit. The practice is done by sucking through a Tim Tam with both ends bitten off. According to the Toxic Custard guide to Australia, this procedure is done as follows:
1. Prepare a cup of tea (or other hot or cold drink)
2. Remove the Tim Tam from the packet
3. Bite a small section off two diagonally opposite corners
4. Dip one corner into the drink
5. Suck on the other corner, which will mix the drink with little pieces of the biscuit
6. When the Tim Tam begins to fall apart in your hand, eat the whole biscuit
7. Obtain another Tim Tam from the packet and return to step 3
Now, just in case you still don’t believe me, here are some images of people engaged in the practice:
Now, the other food item I often have to send to friends is Milo, a chocolate flavoured drink:
It’s delicious! You can drink it cold, or you can drink it as a hot drink, and some people (like my sister Fiona) use it to make MILO TIM TAM SLAMS! *grin*
