Tim Tams and Fair Dinkum

A few more odds and ends about Australia: I have a new favorite cookie. It is called a Tim Tam. It is a chocolate-coated chocolate sandwich cookie and it is delicious. Although technically, here a cookie is called a biscuit. So I asked my sister-in-law Tricia, what then do you call a Pillsbury biscuit that you pop into the oven, and she said that those are called scones. So then, the next obvious question, what do you call a scone? Well, that's still a scone, so there are different types of scones. A morning coffee break here is called "morning tea", and the term refers to the break, not necessarily the drink, but may include the drink. They have tea specifically called "breakfast tea" here and tea called "afternoon tea", with afternoon tea being the stronger of the two. I have noticed that the tea in Australia is very good; they really know how to do tea here. There is also something called Billy tea, which is tea cooked over a campfire. However, with all this tea, there apparently is no such thing as an iced tea drink, as we have not found any restaurants that serve it. The word Tucker means food, and Bush Tucker means food you get from the bush, like berries, etc. - living off the land. Garbage is called rubbish. Fanny packs are called bum bags. An Australian expression is "Fair Dinkum" which means "I'm not kidding; that's the truth." And Dinki Di means the real thing. If you go into a stationary store to buy paper, you won't find any 8 1/2 by 11 paper. That is not the standard size in Australia. I'm not sure what the standard size is, but it is a little bigger than 8 1/2 by 11. All public school kids in Australia - the whole country - are required to wear uniforms. If you go into an arcade, you will not find any games to play; an arcade is a place to shop. And that's Fair Dinkum!