Sarah Snook has put one of Australia’s most popular sweet treats on the world stage again, after she taught Jimmy Fallon how to do a ‘Tim Tam slam’.
The Golden Globe and Emmy Award-winning actor gave him a step-by-step tutorial on how to eat, sip and divulge a Tim Tam from a cup of tea.
Snook, 37, brought the Australian “biscuits” to Fallon, describing them as “delicious”.
“I’ve never heard of Tim Tams. Is it a chocolate cookie?,” Fallon asked.
Snook replied: “Yeah it’s like a cookie.”
During Snook’s demo, she showed him how to bite off one corner of the Tim Tam filled with chocolate cream before taking another bite diagonally off the opposite end.
“Are we just eating cookies together?” Fallon cheekily asked.
The Adelaide-born actor then told Fallon to use the biscuit “as a straw” as they dipped and sipped tea through the biscuit in front of his TV audience.
“It’s kind of genius”, Fallon remarked.
“Now bite it before it falls apart,” Snook said after he got the hang of it.
“Weird, it’s totally working,” Fallon said.
“It’s totally soft and yummy, oh my gosh! This is great, the Tim Tam slam!”
Fallon called the biscuit “a game changer”.
Fellow Aussie celebrities and sport stars including Patrick Brammall, Yvie Jones and former Collingwood player Mason Cox praised Snook after seeing the moment on social media.
Snook is the latest Aussie star to teach international celebrities how to perfect the art of a Tim Tam slam after Isla Fisher recently showed Kelly Clarkson.
Many Australians and international fans who saw the moment were also divided, with some saying they prefer it in Milo or cold milk instead of tea.
“Wait until you try them like that by a camp fire with a glass of port,” another wrote.
Others confessed they had “never done it in their life”.
Snook was a guest on the US talk show host’s program The Tonight Show, where she was promoting her new TV drama All Her Fault that also airs in Australia on Binge.
The show, which was film at Dockland Studios in Melbourne, sees Snook play the role of a wealthy financier Marissa Irvine from Chicago, whose 5-year old son Milo goes missing after she goes to pick him up from a play date.
Snook was also the executive producer of the show, and it is her first major TV role after playing Shiv in Succession.
“It’s so difficult because Succession was such a big, Zeitgeist, huge moment thing,” Snook told at a press conference.
“[It was] career-changing for me and so incredible, so my plan going forward was always choosing things that are different — but also to never compare. It’s not a thing that I can ever top as an experience and as a world. It meant so much to me, so just finding something different was really important. And I feel like this is that.”
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