Created in 1964, Arnott's
The classic snack brand "crunched" the numbers to find the top-selling biscuit in each Australian state. While one might think the ultimate Aussie biscuit is the beloved Tim Tam, but it was the humble Jatz that took out this year's top spot. Click through to see them all.
In 1865 he opened his first factory in Newcastle and now Arnott's sells more than 350 million packets of biscuits a year, and there are more than 200 varieties. The bestsellers are Jatz - 16 million boxes a year - Barbecue Shapes and Tim Tams.
Belvita is the most popular breakfast biscuit in the world, while the Oreo is the number one cookie. First sold 1912, the Oreo has become the world's top selling sandwich biscuit.
History. Tim Tams first appeared on the market in 1964 – the same year, in fact, that McVitie's acquired the Penguin brand. However, Penguins had already been produced since 1932 by William McDonald, a biscuit manufacturer in Glasgow.
The Cherry Ripe Bar is Australia's oldest chocolate bar, first devised way back in 1924 Australian company MacRobertson's Steam Confectionery Works.
Pepperidge Farm, a sister company of Arnott's, began importing the Tim Tam to the United States in 2008. Tim Tams are still "Made in Australia" and packaging in the US bears the slogan "Australia's Favorite Cookie" ("cookie" being the American word for biscuit).
Data shows McVities' Milk Chocolate Digestives are by far the country's most favourably viewed biscuit, with eight in ten (82%) feeling positively about them. In a near tie for second place are Cadbury Milk Chocolate Digestives and Cadbury Fingers (79% and 77% respectively).
Digestives, malted milks and Maryland cookies are among the least favoured biscuits. There's a resounding theme emerging here, and it's that these biscuits are plain AF, which is probably why they didn't hit it off with our impassioned biscuit munchers – all gaining just one vote each.
The earliest surviving example of a biscuit is from 1784, and it is a ship's biscuit. They were renowned for their inedibility, and were so indestructible that some sailors used them as postcards.
Scotch Finger is also one of Arnott's oldest biscuits. It was introduced in 1906, as 'Kiel Finger', the German word for a ships keel. This referred to Arnott's early business of providing long-life dry biscuits for ships sailing from Newcastle.
Arnott's has confirmed Honey Jumbles are gone for good, citing low sales and consumer demand. The demise of the soft-baked gingerbread fingers topped with pink and white icing comes weeks after Arnott's also scrapped its iconic 'Classic Assorted' biscuit pack due to low sales.
ANZAC Biscuits (with Almonds)
This is the national biscuit of Australia. Thin, crunchy, and full of coconut and oats, these became the national treasure they are during World War I!
The Anzac biscuit is a sweet biscuit, popular in Australia and New Zealand, made using rolled oats, flour, sugar, butter (or margarine), golden syrup, baking soda, boiling water, and (optionally) desiccated coconut.
Parle-G, the glucose biscuit brand from Parle Products, has consolidated its position as the world's largest selling biscuit brand, says a report by Nielsen.
He put the sweet snack in a Kodak photographic envelope complete with the original note, which stated ''Pilot biscuit from Titanic lifeboat April 1912''. ''It is the world's most valuable biscuit,'' auctioneer Andrew Aldridge said.
Finally, the most popular chocolate candy in the U.S. is none other than Snickers. In 1930 the very first Snickers was created and it wasn't named after a giggle, but a horse.
A nation of sweet tooths, Britons are among the highest consumers of chocolate on the planet and Cadbury has been the nation's favourite chocolate brand for decades now.
An iconic Aussie treat, Arnott's Tim Tam Original is a mouth-watering combination of crunchy biscuit, luscious cream centre, wrapped in a smooth milk chocolate coating . It's easy to see why Tim Tam is Australia's most-loved chocolate biscuit.
McVitie's Penguin Original v Arnott's Tim Tam Original
The chocolate-covered, cream-filled biscuits are identical except for the Penguin being longer by more than a centimetre. The British biscuit is crunchier too, but an overload of sugar makes the treat cloying and one-dimensional.
Pepperidge Farm, a sister company of Arnott's, began importing the Tim Tam to the United States in 2008. The Tim Tams are still “Made in Australia” and packaging in the US bears the slogan “Australia's Favorite Cookie.” (“Cookie” being the American word for a biscuit.)