Simple solution: don't go to Tim's. It's been shit for like 20 years already anyway.
I tried Tim Hortons for the first time about 7 years ago. Everyone told me that they were so excited for me because they could never relive that first time again. They told me that they had it so often that it lost its luster. I'd heard so much about Tim Hortons that I could hardly contain my excitement.
I tried it and politely told everyone it was fine. I tried it 7 times from 5 different stores. At the end of my trip, I was able to tell everyone that they hadn't become more jaded but that Tim Hortons just sucked.
Updoot for the name alone. But yeah, once upon a time it was pretty good but it was still just sandwiches, soup, coffee and donuts. Not that big a deal. Now it's straight up bad.
Peoples' brand worship is insane.
Exactly. The last time anything there was good was when they were still baking everything in house. So, like, 2003.
honestly if you want shitty mud coffee just get it at McDonalds. you'll get slightly more mud for like 30 to 40 cents less.
McDonald's (last I checked) got the contract that Tim's coffee used to have. So it actually is Tim's coffee pre-2010s.
Buy from your local coffee shop though eff these jokers.
Also, burn it down.
I don't understand how something so bad is so popular in Canada. I guess just people just don't know that there are better options?
popular in Canada.
It's largely momentum and nostalgia for a time when it was actually decent.
Anywhere makes better donuts. Don't drink coffee but people complain about it all the time but still go there.
Coffee isn’t great, but for fast food the price/quality is one of the better ones.
History. Nostalgia. Convenience. Also branding.
I don’t understand how something so bad is so popular in Canada.
It's only popular with middle aged white people who dilute their shit coffee with milk and sugar. Double-double is fucking disgusting.
How can the canonical Canadian donut shop have such a shit maple glaze?
It was sold to Burger King
It's still worth talking about why the simple solution is important
I still love Timbits.
Fuck Tims for supporting this genocidal psychopath. Boycott Tims, I hope they learn a lesson (they won't)
And by genocide I mean genocide. Don't think for a second it's staying contained, the UK is on track to join the US thanks to this waste of atoms
I hope you guys don't buy any. I get being a fan but the bitch is a monster and she's trying to hurt people all over the world. She thinks a dead kid is better than a trans kid and she's actively spending money to make that happen. Remind your friends that donut gives money for more dead trans kids.
Why always british or american culture to sell canadian shit? What about Wayne and Shuster or Rene Simard!
Beaver tails use Canadian culture to market themselves.
*doughnut, not do nut.
I mean it is a promotion and there is a new series coming out. Don't go to Tim's don't watch the series. Nobody asks for any of this promotional shit companies do but we all end up paying for it.
that was my thought. no ones asks for any of the stupid marketing they do.
Yes wonder why fast food is as expensive as going to a restaurant now. How many celebrities do they get to do commercials now? You think those are cheap? Corporate has to pay for it somehow.
It could also be the fact that beef has more than doubled over the last few (4-5 I think) years, or that minimum wage has more than doubled over the last 10 years. Would make sense then that fast food is about twice as expensive as 10 years ago lol
Sure but they also do lots of commercials with celebrities now and those are not cheap. Somebody has to pay for it. Also minimum wage depends where you live mine hasn't changed.
Sure but why can I go to a sit down restaurant and purchase a burger that is not so much more expensive then a fast food Burger. If its beef price it would effect both places.
Also minimum wage depends where you live mine hasn’t changed.
Here it is raised every year.
Sure but why can I go to a sit down restaurant and purchase a burger that is not so much more expensive then a fast food Burger. If its beef price it would effect both places.
Idk, sit down restaurant burgers are even more expensive here. Sit down restaurants have comparable pricing to fast food places if you get like a pasta or something else that doesn't need a lot of meat and has cheap meat in the first place. Sometimes they'll even be cheaper than fast food then. Think 13€ for a McDonald's meal (big tasty for example), 10-12€ for a pasta at a sit down restaurant, 15€ for a burger with fries at a sit down restaurant and then 3-4€ extra for a drink.
And you used to be able to get that pasta for 6€ at the sit down restaurant, or the burger for about 8, back when that mcdonald's meal cost 6-7. And somehow, the restaurant selling 7-8€ burgers went under, despite having plenty of demand.
In other news, the superb chicken wrap that used to cost me €4.70 a little under a decade ago is now over €8. Actually, it was €8 2 years ago, it could be around €10 now. Also at a sit down restaurant, but I'd usually order it via Wolt.
This is why I didn't eat at Tim Horton's last time I was out
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