Im drinking my second XL Tim's of the day so you know where Im standing.Also you may marvel at the new Tim Horton's BAGET SANDWICHES!!! And at their plans to open 300 stores in New England and Upstate New York over the next few years.
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:50 (twenty-one years ago) link
Is this a misspelling of bagel or baguette?
― Jody Beth Rosen, Thursday, 17 October 2002 17:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Chris V. (Chris V), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:00 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Andy K (Andy K), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
As to the question at hand: Timmy's, of course! Starbucks doesn't have a drive-through.
― ragnfild (ragnfild), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:11 (twenty-one years ago) link
― luna.c (luna.c), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:15 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Bryan (Bryan), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:41 (twenty-one years ago) link
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:47 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:56 (twenty-one years ago) link
― j.lu (j.lu), Thursday, 17 October 2002 18:58 (twenty-one years ago) link
i couldn't think of a more uncomfortable place to sit for hours than tim horton's though ...
i like starbucks because attractive people go there. you can sit for hours in a starbucks and look at pretty girls {or boys} ... often starbucks goes so far as to actually _employ_ these attractive people, for further eye-grazing. yum. intellectual meat market.
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
Anyhow, some days call for Tim's (e.g. out with mom, driving to go pick your own apples or something) and some days call for Second Cup (post movie or shopping trip).
― elisabeth k, Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:07 (twenty-one years ago) link
second cup: nice muffins.
― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:16 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 17 October 2002 19:33 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g (graysonlane), Thursday, 17 October 2002 20:01 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Thursday, 17 October 2002 20:03 (twenty-one years ago) link
ahem... I'm addicted though. I openly celebrated when I saw yesterday that they're opening a new one under Metro Hall. I'm so sick of the Java Joe's I'm currently stuck with. Now if they could just build another one a block south and a block west...
― Kim (Kim), Thursday, 17 October 2002 22:36 (twenty-one years ago) link
― keith (keithmcl), Friday, 18 October 2002 02:42 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 October 2002 02:55 (twenty-one years ago) link
― dave q, Friday, 18 October 2002 04:49 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Tag, Friday, 18 October 2002 07:44 (twenty-one years ago) link
But Swiss Chalet, hey it's almost 'festive special' time.
― Kim (Kim), Friday, 18 October 2002 10:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Also, Starbucks coffee tastes horrible. Untied airlines are all excited about the fact that they serve it - this is a BAD thing.
I wonder what coffee Northwest airlines serves?
― Mark C (Mark C), Friday, 18 October 2002 10:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
Incidentally, can someone explain the appeal of poutine to me, please?
― Tag, Friday, 18 October 2002 10:38 (twenty-one years ago) link
Horrific Jayne Mansfield stylee car crash. I know this from watching the Tim Horton biography on CBC -- I saw it only partly because of my love for english toffee cappucino, and partly for general hockey obsessiveness.
And I couldn't agree more with Mark C about Starbucks coffee, it tastes like battery acid.
― Nicole (Nicole), Friday, 18 October 2002 11:12 (twenty-one years ago) link
That would be me, I also make the same accusation of Vaughan and its Coffee Time craze. But Im coming from a town of 5000 that supports two Tim Hortons and have Moncton which has about 25 of them all busy.
I heart Saint Huberts. Driving or training through Quebec all the time I've learnt to love the chicken. (Dan to thread?)
― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 18 October 2002 12:23 (twenty-one years ago) link
Yugh indeed. Well, RIP I guess.
partly for general hockey obsessiveness
Much about your secret passion for Don Cherry is revealed.
One time a friend from Seattle was visiting and needed his coffee badly, but a Starbucks was all that was available. However, he went for it anyway, doubtless cursing to hjmself the whole time.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 18 October 2002 14:09 (twenty-one years ago) link
― g (graysonlane), Friday, 18 October 2002 15:29 (twenty-one years ago) link
― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 18:57 (twenty years ago) link
― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 22:03 (twenty years ago) link
There was a KFC close by that closed down two years ago, remained empty, and has just reopened as a Tim Horton's. That makes seven within a kilometre-and-a-half of where I live (five sit-downs, one drive-thru, one inside a gas station). I'd say that's insane, but I make regular/occasional use of all the other six.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 5 August 2015 00:20 (eight years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-39559323
― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Monday, 22 May 2017 11:46 (six years ago) link
Drink every time you hear "Tim Horton's" in Somebody Knows Something, season 2.
― rip van wanko, Monday, 22 May 2017 12:15 (six years ago) link
the creeping canadianisation of the uk continues apace - before we know it all our long-held cultural traditions will be swept aside in favour of hockey, degrassi and celine dion
― ilx liberal moron team UNITE (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 May 2017 12:18 (six years ago) link
tim hortons is not canadian
― i n f i n i t y (β), Monday, 22 May 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
oh christ here comes some hortonsplaining
― π΅ it's grey pubic now, stoner blue π΅ (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 May 2017 15:52 (six years ago) link
I agree with that in the sense of refusing to affirm a fucking donut chain as emblematic of Canadianness.
― jmm, Monday, 22 May 2017 16:04 (six years ago) link
I mean, it's a publicly traded multinational with I think Brazilian majority ownership at this point, but it was founded in Canada, its headquarters are in Canada, and has the most branches in Canada. xps Jmm OTM though.
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Monday, 22 May 2017 16:07 (six years ago) link
don't have the patience to explain to people all those details
tim hortons used to be ok over a decade ago
burger king owns them now
but put it this way, the nhl, an essentially american org, is more "canadian" than timmy's
― i n f i n i t y (β), Monday, 22 May 2017 16:56 (six years ago) link
However you want to look at it, the Canadian national treasure angle is nothing but marketing. I don't know anyone who is a Tim Horton's customer. No-one seems to think about it or notice it. For shitty but cheap coffee 7-11 is where it's at. Or MacDonalds. Can't see them competing with eg. Greggs in Glasgow since the food is pretty horrible in comparison.
― everything, Monday, 22 May 2017 17:16 (six years ago) link
otm
― i n f i n i t y (β), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:17 (six years ago) link
Maybe BC is different? Tim Horton's is definitely a big deal in Ontario. (Also, my understanding is that, when BK and Tim Horton's merged, they set up their headquarters in Ontario?)
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:31 (six years ago) link
phew i'm glad my v serious post about the canadianisation of the uk is getting the forensic attention it deserves
― π΅ it's grey pubic now, stoner blue π΅ (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:34 (six years ago) link
P sure we'd be shooting the shit about Tim Horton's regardless. Also the top of the thread suggests that this might be the case:
Maybe BC is different?
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:38 (six years ago) link
that's very possible
but then again each province might as well be its own country right?
― i n f i n i t y (β), Monday, 22 May 2017 18:04 (six years ago) link
I have at least two Tim Hortons coffees a day--one on the way to work, one on the way home. Someone will often bring one in during the day. Don't know when or why they decided to forgo the possessive in their name. The original store was just Tim Horton.
http://www.where.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Unusual-Getaways-from-Toronto-First-Tim-Hortons.jpg
― clemenza, Monday, 22 May 2017 18:18 (six years ago) link
They dropped the possessive apostrophe as a result of Quebec language laws. I don't know whether we're still supposed to read it as possessive.
― jmm, Monday, 22 May 2017 18:27 (six years ago) link
Interesting! I just assumed it was because nobody cared about such stuff--there's actual history behind it.
― clemenza, Monday, 22 May 2017 18:51 (six years ago) link
Tims, partly because I'm using their WiFi right now
― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga VΓΆn Bontee), Monday, 22 May 2017 18:55 (six years ago) link
(The answer to the question is easily Tims btw, mainly bc Starbucks is undrinkable horseshit and Tims makes a perfectly acceptable ultra-light roast, probably better than most other fast food places. For food, I don't think Tims is as good as they used to be but, again, you should still be able to get a decent ham sandwich and soup while everything at Starbucks seems like a bizarro perversion.)
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:03 (six years ago) link
Timmy big deal in Quebec as well. It's one of those institutions I keep criticising but when one of my european friends uses the same arguments than I do, I'll lose my shit and defend it to death.
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 22 May 2017 19:04 (six years ago) link
i mean why would you get coffee at any of these establishments anyway
tonnes of nice coffee shops in vancouver at least
even smaller chains
― i n f i n i t y (β), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:15 (six years ago) link
Road trips
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:19 (six years ago) link
lol
is this a frequent thing for u
― i n f i n i t y (β), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:23 (six years ago) link
Long drives? Yes.
― Tomorrow Begat Tomorrow (Sund4r), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:24 (six years ago) link
that's fair
― i n f i n i t y (β), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:26 (six years ago) link
i drove from vancouver to banff and i don't remember how many tims we passed by but i will say probably not many
we did stop at a white spot and white spot effing rules and i miss it so much
― i n f i n i t y (β), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:27 (six years ago) link
oh god I want to go to banff so so bad
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:28 (six years ago) link
it was p cool
lots of people will tell you it's gotten too commercial/touristy but lots of beautiful hikes, parks, and drives in the surrounding areas
― i n f i n i t y (β), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:41 (six years ago) link
Yeah nothing wrong with White Spot whatsoever but that's another thread. Think there's probably more A&Ws than Tim Hortons in Vancouver and there's not even a glut of those.
― everything, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 03:30 (six years ago) link
Starbucks doesn't have a buffalo-sauce latte: http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/10/tim-hortons-introduces-buffalo-sauce-latte.html
― Beret McKesson (jaymc), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 17:58 (six years ago) link
Destroy both. IF they were the only two options I'd probably take starbucks just because I of strength/caffeine content.
― IF (Terrorist) Yes, Explain (man alive), Tuesday, 17 October 2017 18:02 (six years ago) link
. it's very difficult for me to conduct business in tim hortons and not be overwhelmed with sadness
they opened one of these here (not canada), i went in when it was pretty new still i think, but overall yeah, pathetically sad place, and crazy expensive, i do not want to go there any more
― j., Wednesday, 18 October 2017 00:50 (six years ago) link
Tim Hortons > the band Poison > 7-11 > literal poison > Starbucks (probably > the Buffalo latte)
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 02:46 (six years ago) link
Tbf, though, I had coffee from an American Tims on the way back after Thanksgiving/Columbus Day and it tasted completely wrong, more like 7-11 material, so that might affect rankings (especially if they're selling Buffalo lattes).
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Wednesday, 18 October 2017 02:49 (six years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/9jz587/what_is_going_on_with_tim_hortons_why_are_their/
a great metaphor for a country in disarray
― F# A# (β), Sunday, 30 September 2018 17:53 (five years ago) link
When I was 10 or 11, 7-Up had these promotional cans in Canada where the bottom was a picture of Lighthouse or Edward Bear or Crowbar (maybe the Guess Who, too), with their name above the photo. I can't find any online evidence, but my memory is not faulty here--I was talking about them with a friend one day.
The last couple of days (and into the foreseeable future), my paper coffee cup has an illustration of Shawn Mendes on there.
http://i.dam-img.rfdcontent.com/cms/006/061/029/1000x400_crop-north-force.jpg
This is not progress. I want to go back.
― clemenza, Thursday, 5 September 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link