PSA: the timtams in Carrefour are contaminated. Just opened a pack and there’s bugs inside. Took them back and they said it’s the second pack they’ve seen in recent days with said bugs. 
For sure these have been sitting in a warehouse somewhere because clearly these bugs are hatched from eggs. Still a mystery how the eggs get inside the packaging.
I told them if they’re still there tomorrow I’m calling Apple Daily.
Send them to Taidong! It’s what they usually do.
I might call Arnott’s in Australia and let them know. Someone’s fucked up somewhere.
Oh no. One of my most frequent purchases!
I guess it can help motivate my current efforts to eat fewer snacks.
But you might need more protein.
Dem bugs is high protein
Sometimes, life in Taiwan is hard. Like when you try to buy a head replacement for a mop, but Taiwan wants you to buy the whole thing.
They are threaded for a reason.
Try harder!
Buying a mop online is the kind of thing I’d rather avoid to do. Call me old school 
PX Mart had individual replacement heads, at least last time I bought the same kind before LNY.
Though I’d vote for Momo too for convenience and price.
What a disappointment. I noticed they were on discount, so bought a pack out of curiosity (hmm I wonder what kind of bugs? “Biscuit weevils”?). But no weevils to be found. Now I’ll have to eat the whole pack to justify my purchase.
PS. For lostinasia: This is not a recomendation to try your own “experimental purchase”. With the two that the bear mentioned, there is still a 2/3 anecdotal chance you’ll get weevils. They must have been on discount for a reason… And evil weevils can infest your whole pantry… your big bag of rice, your pastas… Not worth it, fella.
They only removed the dark mint flavor. I’ve checked all the others but they seem ok.
There were little caterpillars inside so I’m guessing some kind of biscuit moth.
Thanks for the diligent work and sacrifice, protecting all of us!
Sadly, due to your warnings, I didn’t buy any when they were on special a couple of weeks ago. But the Danshui Carrefour hasn’t had any white chocolate flavour lately anyway, and that’s the one I prefer.
As an aside, looks like the carrefour credit card with E Sun bank is being discontinued if I read the chinese on the email correctly.
To be fair those caterpillars are a good source of protein. I’ve eaten worse.
If I’m eating a TimTam, I’m not doing it for the protein.
Yep. Scuttlebutt is that it is being replaced by Chinatrust but that has yet to be confirmed.
If I also read it right it looks like they will swap the card for a different one.
The Hsinchu (Zhubei) branch is going to close down by the end of October. It is so very sad. It’s my one stop shopping for all my groceries for so long.
I used to remember being excited to go to a carrefour hypermarket but it really lost their charm. The hypermarkets just look sad now and most the time they don’t even stock what I needed, so I end up buying it on shopee.
