JasoNsider
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Eh, it's awful stuff in my opinion. No foolin, McDonald's is better coffee and even pastries now. The donuts went way downhill years back when they were bought out.
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Tim Hortons coming to the UK
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King Gilga
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Once near central london I walked past a place with a tim hortons sign but it was closed and decrepit looking.
Anyways when I lived in Canada I liked timmies enough, the icecaps, super sweet hot chocolate, timbits and (iirc) cheap donuts were all okay.
But yeah they'll get slaughted here.
Dunkin donuts gave it a go on my high street, but they only lasted a couple months.
Anyways when I lived in Canada I liked timmies enough, the icecaps, super sweet hot chocolate, timbits and (iirc) cheap donuts were all okay.
But yeah they'll get slaughted here.
Dunkin donuts gave it a go on my high street, but they only lasted a couple months.
Yeah, now that I actually think on it - London is dominated by the independent coffee shop.
As someone who grew up in Vancouver, Tim's was non existent until recently. I was never exposed to it until last year when I lived in the great north for a year. Tim's is the only thing in so much Canadian towns it is shocking. Every small town has an A and W and a Tim Horton's. Iced caps are good because they are cheap to other comparable blended coffee drinks from other shops. That's what makes them drinkable. Doughnuts are passable and I actually didn't mind their chili on some cold nights looking for shelter off the highway.
But we didn't avoid the plague
gutter_trash
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UK is surrounded by countries with good coffee... Imports Canada's fast food brand of coffee
Tim Hortons coffee isn't even good
Tim Hortons coffee isn't even good
privitsan02
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Tim Hortons is terrible and this is coming from a Canadian. McDonald's have better coffee and breakfast as well. I'm not trying to be hipster or anything but they used to be good at some point. I have no idea what happened but everything just tastes like water now unless you overload it with milk or sugar. The iced cap also tastes nowhere near as good anymore.
This is going to flop hard and personally i hope it does. Improve it in Canada first.
Best wishes.
This is going to flop hard and personally i hope it does. Improve it in Canada first.
Best wishes.
gutter_trash
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The worst part of Tim Hortons is their marketing team's brainwashing Canadians into believing that it is some sort of symbol of Canadian identity.
Heck. They didn't even exist in most parts of Canada until the mid 1990s
Emperor Bohe
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Yep. Believe it or not but here in Canada McDonalds had been been beating Tim Hortons at their own game with McCafe.
Honestly any praise given to Timmy's should at least be to their cheese croissants.
Everything else is garbage.
There are much better less well known coffee shops in Canada.
McDonald's coffee is the best out of the major chains. I prefer them to Starbucks. Tim Hortons coffee is garbage.
Ice Caps are the goat though
Reverse Imperialism.
I kid, Tims isn't going to take over anything. Unless you enjoy tepid (or sometimes scalding) brown dishwater coupled with horrendously slow service. At least it is consistent.
Tim's used to be alright before they stopped baking doughnuts in house and went to pre-made/frozen everything, but that was around the time they exploded everywhere. I swear when I was a kid growing up in the Metro Vancouver area, there was like, 1 Tim's near where I lived, and it was a solid 15 minute drive to get to.
They also got rid of the chili in a bread bowl. -5
McCafe is far superior to Tims, in that it actually has a flavour to it's coffee and doesn't just taste like burning tongue.
Side note to Tim's: It is spelled doughnuts.
I kid, Tims isn't going to take over anything. Unless you enjoy tepid (or sometimes scalding) brown dishwater coupled with horrendously slow service. At least it is consistent.
Tim's used to be alright before they stopped baking doughnuts in house and went to pre-made/frozen everything, but that was around the time they exploded everywhere. I swear when I was a kid growing up in the Metro Vancouver area, there was like, 1 Tim's near where I lived, and it was a solid 15 minute drive to get to.
They also got rid of the chili in a bread bowl. -5
McCafe is far superior to Tims, in that it actually has a flavour to it's coffee and doesn't just taste like burning tongue.
Side note to Tim's: It is spelled doughnuts.
Charles Brandon
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Now you guys can enjoy my breakfast...
The Iced Capp!
best frappacino in town.
You have that for breakfast? Da fuq? That does not look healthy
This is just patently not true, especially compared to pretty much every other fast food coffee alternative.
The bake goods are mediocre though that is the truth
Prinz Eugn
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I recently went to a Tim Horton's (from the US), and boy howdy, it was severely mediocre. Had the steak sandwich and potato wedges. We should've gone to the McDonald's down the street.
NYR
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McDonalds destroys Tims because McDonalds coffee is OLD Tim Hortons coffee, which was the best.
What happened was Timmys had a blend made for them WAY back in the day, when Timmys coffee was good, and once Timmys became huge and was bought out, they left the old formulation and made their own, cheaper, crappier blend.
Around this time McDonalds Canada was introducting the new "bistro" McDonalds, thats when they started bringing in TVs and big leather couches, they wanted people to loiter in McDonalds longer and spend more money, thats also when they decided to get real coffee, so they contacted the same supplier that made Timmys old blend and said "hook a brother up", but the Timmys blend will always be a secret recipe for Timmys so the supplier tweaked the Timmys blend and made a McDonalds blend.
Fast forward a number of years and Canadians are still slow to realize that McDonalds is selling the good, old time Timmys coffee and Timmys is selling dishwater and telling you its your Canadian duty to buy from them.
i'll echo the sentiment that mccafe coffee is about 5x better and particularly more consistent than tims
this is besides the more heinous crime that tim hortons breakfast sandwiches are about equal in quality to a year old microwave frozen breakfast english muffin with freezer burn, their hashbrown patties are barely warmed in a toaster instead of a deep fryer, mcmuffins and hash browns are gold no matter what mcdicks location you visit
this is besides the more heinous crime that tim hortons breakfast sandwiches are about equal in quality to a year old microwave frozen breakfast english muffin with freezer burn, their hashbrown patties are barely warmed in a toaster instead of a deep fryer, mcmuffins and hash browns are gold no matter what mcdicks location you visit
Morrigan Stark
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Because it's infinitely superior to Dunkin' Donuts, probably. And it's still reasonably cheap.
Didn't care for Tims that much until I was stuck in the US without them, then I started missing them. That said whenever I take road trips into Ontario I do get sick of them sometimes.
That's hilariously preposterous. Dunkin' is vomit-inducing.
Yeah this is true. Going on a summer holiday in Seattle with Starbucks everywhere and paying triple the price for a smaller iced capp (their "frappucino") really made me miss the Timmy's iced cap.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
neither do i.
Technosteve
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Is tims the dunken dounuts of the north?
Tim Hortons is complete garbage. I had a coffee from there once and wanted to throw up after a couple of sips. I can honestly make better coffee myself and I suck at that.
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=krispy+kreme+toronto+locations
There, I just saved the lives of everyone living in Toronto that has no idea what GOOD donuts and decent coffee tastes like.
https://www.google.ca/webhp?sourceid=chrome-instant&ion=1&espv=2&ie=UTF-8#q=krispy+kreme+toronto+locations
There, I just saved the lives of everyone living in Toronto that has no idea what GOOD donuts and decent coffee tastes like.
It's miles better than the black water being served all over the US.
The one in Verdun has style though, sweet sexy 80's style.
That's not a really a high bar at all..
Agreed. But when every place in North America wants to serve you black water it's easy to get excited at the sight of a coffee machine capable of espresso!
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