Very Important Question

Hitch-Hiker

What are the main ingredients of a tiffin?

If you think you know please don't google it, just answer. This is a life or death situation. I need to know!

AmentsChick

tiff???????

Hitch-Hiker

Maybe they have a different name stateside. Hang on, I'll go and check.

Hitch-Hiker

Nope, no different name, maybe they just aren't sold over there. They're a type of chocolate bar if that helps.

AmentsChick

Hitch-Hiker wrote:

Nope, no different name, maybe they just aren't sold over there. They're a type of chocolate bar if that helps.

Nope, sorry. I got nothing.

Drop The Leash 10

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Hitch-Hiker

Ok then, I'll explain and expand the question. This was prompted by the caveman Vs Astronauts thread, as it is possibly the dumbest, yet most time consuming debate me and my friends have ever had.

There is a snack bar available over here called tiffin. A few different companies make them. It's a chocolate bar with raisins and bits of biscuit throughout. Every recipe we've looked up on t'internet confirms these to be the main ingredients. Anyway, there is one brand sold on my campus shop that doesn't have raisins, yet it's still called a tiffin on the wrapper. My friends and i have been arguing at length over whether it can still be called a tiffin even though it doesn't have the constituent ingredients. A couple of the guys think that it's just this particular brand has a slightly different recipe for Tiffin. Myself and another couple of guys are of the opinion that as soon as you remove one of the main ingredients, it ceases to be a tiffin and is now just a chocolate and biscuit bar, and they shouldn't call the bar a tiffin because by definition it's not.

What say you oh wise members of the pit?

Oh drop the leash, if only that were true

GraySaturday

hardly life or death ::scoff:: I thought maybe you ate it, and had an allergy

Hitch-Hiker

GraySaturday wrote:

hardly life or death ::scoff:: I thought maybe you ate it, and had an allergy

You have no idea how long this debate has been raging

And if I can get enough people on my side it'll show 'em all

RolandTD20Kdrummer

Actually I know several, but I'm not sharing...fingers are too tired to share...

GraySaturday

well it sounds like crunch bars for example, regular ones are rice crispy and chocolate, but my husband likes the ones with caramel too. But they are still called crunch bars, just one with caramel. So maybe this is the same thing, Tiffin minus raisins. And if Tiffin is a type of candy bar, there is no reason they can't offer a variety of different versions of Tiffin?

Make any sense?

Hitch-Hiker

GraySaturday wrote:

well it sounds like crunch bars for example, regular ones are rice crispy and chocolate, but my husband likes the ones with caramel too. But they are still called crunch bars, just one with caramel. So maybe this is the same thing, Tiffin minus raisins. And if Tiffin is a type of candy bar, there is no reason they can't offer a variety of different versions of Tiffin?

Make any sense?

It's not a brand name though like Crunch bars, it's a recipe name. Take Cadburys. Their Tiffin bar has raisins and biscuit, but hey have another bar just with biscuit. They don't call it biscuit tiffin though, the call it dairy milk crunch (or something along those lines). Now if the name Tiffin was just the name of a particular bar, and then they brought out a variation of it (such as crunch/caramel crunch or moro/moro peanut) that would be ok, but because it's a recipe used by multiple brands, shouldn't each bar have common ingredients?

GraySaturday

oh oh! I understand now.. then yeah, doesn't seem like it would be a tiffin bar. I agree with you then!

Hitch-Hiker

GraySaturday wrote:

oh oh! I understand now.. then yeah, doesn't seem like it would be a tiffin bar. I agree with you then!

Woo! One more to the cause

Heineken Helen

sorry hitch... I hate raisins but I LOVE tiffins that answer your question?

Jennytree

I've never eaten a tiffin with raisins, cos I hate raisins and I never would have known there's meant to be raisins in one... am I broken?

surfanddestroy

I have never had a tiffin bar but tiffin just means snack/light lunch. Therefore it is just a snack bar so can contain anything.