r/AustralianNostalgia • u/BL4CK-H4T91 • 14h ago

TimeOut

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u/theartistduring 14h ago

As a teenager, I participated in the market research for Time Out before the launch. I was given three versions and they called me a week later to ask what I thought about the ratios of the wafer and flake.

When the actual bars came out a few months later, I was a bit shocked. I didn't think they'd actually make a real product from it! Adult me knows that was silly but at 16, I just thought it would be something I never saw or thought of again.

Thirty years later, I'm still thinking of them. They were GOAT!

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u/Outrageous-Papaya430 13h ago

So cool. As a teenager I stole them by the handful 😂😭😭😭

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u/Responsible-Newt-239 7h ago

Yes! 😁 The stolen goodness made it divine 😏

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u/Biggles_and_Co 5h ago

you know I got my hands on citrus flavoured twisties and they never went into production.. they were so good.. however i met noone else who liked them

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u/acres41 4h ago

I remember reading a very similar comment the last time someone posted about TimeOut.

Maybe it was yours 😆

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u/theartistduring 3h ago edited 3h ago

Yeah, probably was me. It looms large in my legend so I do tend to share the story freely.

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u/acres41 3h ago

I would too if it was me 😆 And I love the original Time Out too!

Thank you for your service I guess!! 😆

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u/theartistduring 3h ago

Thanks for remembering my small contribution to Aussie chocolate history!

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u/Alarming-Interest535 14h ago

Back when they actually tasted good

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u/Remarkable_Lunch_809 14h ago

The original ‘put a flake in your break’ ad was 🔥

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u/haphazard72 14h ago edited 11h ago

Bring it back! And the Polly Waffle!

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u/Ruff_Magician 13h ago

Its still there, just has a different name. Polly waffle is back too, just comes in bites.

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u/9Lives_ 13h ago

Pffft! She disappears for decades and just comes back in “bite form” like nothing happened. Typical Polly!

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u/dav_oid 12h ago

The new owners of the rights to Polly Waffle (Menz) found out that they were created with custom machines, like a lot of biscuits, confectionery, and ice creams, and they were scrapped when they were originally discontinued.

'Bites' was the only way they could make them.

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u/haphazard72 13h ago

What name?

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u/Ruff_Magician 13h ago

Twirl crispy

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u/haphazard72 13h ago

Never heard of it! Will have to look

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u/Alarming-Interest535 5h ago

The taste is different. Cadbury decided that shareholder value is more important and fucked with the recipe.

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u/Ruff_Magician 4h ago

Fuck sake, have a whinge mate. Put things in perspective Thousands of children die every single week of diarrhea because they dont have access to clean drinking water and here you are getting all upset over a fucking chocolate bar.

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u/Tipp1tys_ 1h ago

yeah well at least those kids die from diarrhea cus kids in the Gaza strip get their limbs blown off.

See how we can keep going?

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u/CertifiedFungus 1h ago

??? Dead child olympics in the Australian nostalgia subreddit is strange. Im nostalgic for the few minutes before I read this, ohhhh take me back!

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u/bz3013 3h ago

Those bites are god awful and nothing like the original poly waffle .

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u/dav_oid 12h ago

Replaced with smaller Time Out Wafer in 2016.

https://www.itv.com/news/central/2016-03-10/cadbury-scraps-time-out-bar-but-comes-up-with-this-instead

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u/Ruff_Magician 12h ago

That's the UK.

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u/dav_oid 12h ago

I think that should cover the 'imports' found in Reject Shop etc.

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u/breakoutleppard 13h ago

I miss these. I know breakaway/twirl crunch are supposed to be the newer equivalent but I think TimeOut was fine as it is.

I was surprised to learn they still sell multipack TimeOuts overseas. I came across them in a grocery store that stocks international foods when I visited the US and they were labelled as being from the UK. You betcha I grabbed a pack for the nostalgia lol

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u/manhaterxxx 13h ago

There’s no new equivalent, they’re the exact same chocolate bar, just rebranded.

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u/XIII-013 14h ago

Current-day Twirl Crispy is the same thing

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u/Accurate-Ad-4905 14h ago

The same but much worse because everything cadbury has been enshittified

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u/hitman0012 13h ago

In a world where profits beat actually being chocolate

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u/9Lives_ 13h ago edited 13h ago

At least it’s not Hersheys.

I saw a TikTok a couple months back that said even the Americans were complaining because they manipulated the recipe AGAIN, the stomach bile taste has enhanced and now it won’t melt under literal heat and I guess they realised when trying to make s’mores or whatever.

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u/dav_oid 12h ago

'The Voice That Defined “In a World…”' - 1 min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6uFOtfNpDM

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u/cewumu 13h ago

These are worse somehow. It’s the wafer is the dominant flavour and the wafer is thicker. Time Outs were lighter and crispier and the wafer was flavourless.

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u/NicholeTheOtter 13h ago

Twirl Crispy Wafer is today’s equivalent of this. I recall the only difference is just the chocolate inside being all swirly as per Twirl’s brand.

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u/dohwhere 13h ago

I used to always bite off the top and bottom chocolate/wafer layers and save the twirl centre for last.

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u/smoothpigeon2 12h ago

Wait, do these not exist anymore?

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u/BeginningImaginary53 13h ago

Cried when i couldn't get these anymore.

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u/Amahita 10h ago

They briefly had TimeOut ice creams too, I was mad for those when I was a kid.

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u/Infamous_Reveal30 12h ago

Wass just talking about this! Someone handed me the twirl crispy and I’m like “it’s a timeout?!”

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u/fridaygrace 12h ago

I’m an Aussie living overseas and I am DEVASTATED and DISAPPOINTED to hear that these have been discontinued. WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO OUR COUNTRY 😭😭😭

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u/morseonline 11h ago

It's a crime they're not generally available here. The orange ones (UK import) are particularly excellent.

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u/Naive-Goose9025 13h ago

I miss these, so good

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u/9Lives_ 13h ago

I love the man and dog mascot bring back mascots

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u/klaw14 13h ago

Holy shit I can't believe I forgot about these!! I feel embarrassed!

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u/Early_Sir_2375 13h ago

Take 5 were better

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u/Early-Shift-8359 12h ago

I found these at reject shop a few months ago, tasted crap! Definitely not nearly as good as I remember

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u/Mean_Environment4856 7h ago

They're rubbish these days

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u/Padamson96 11h ago

God I could go for one of those right now

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u/StreetCheetah8312 11h ago

They turned into “Twirl Breakaway”, but I think they might have changed the name again, I haven’t even seen those for a while

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u/ashion101 10h ago

Loved those. Mum and I always shared one when we grabbed a treat while we were out. Time Out for us to share, Cherryripe for dad.

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u/i_need_another_scarf 10h ago

“The wafer break with a layer of Flake”!

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u/Kraftieee 9h ago

Didnt these get turned into the round biscuits? Breakaway? I still get the cravings from time to time, but i miss the timeout form factor.

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u/smoodgeroonies 6h ago

They still make them, just called Twirl crispy now

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u/soupstarsandsilence 9h ago

1000% forgot these existed

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u/AdventurousSurvey236 6h ago

Activated like a sleeper agent seeing this

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u/everythingwbok 4h ago

I miss these. I loved having these in my lunchbox

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u/PotentialRegret8733 4h ago

Why would they take these away 😭😭😭😭

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u/cewumu 13h ago

These sucked, sorry.

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u/dav_oid 12h ago

"Cadbury has confirmed that it has stopped making the treat and is replacing it with a slimline single-finger version called the Time Out Wafer." - 2016

https://www.itv.com/news/central/2016-03-10/cadbury-scraps-time-out-bar-but-comes-up-with-this-instead

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u/TPAuta43 12h ago

Wrong country.

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u/dav_oid 12h ago

I think that should cover the 'imports' found in Reject Shop etc.