Taking Sides: Tim Horton's Vs Starbucks

Is this a misspelling of bagel or baguette?

As to the question at hand: Timmy's, of course! Starbucks doesn't have a drive-through.

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.

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).

second cup: nice muffins.

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...

But Swiss Chalet, hey it's almost 'festive special' time.

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?

Incidentally, can someone explain the appeal of poutine to me, please?

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.

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?)

Yugh indeed. Well, RIP I guess.

partly for general hockey obsessiveness

Much about your secret passion for Don Cherry is revealed.

And I couldn't agree more with Mark C about Starbucks coffee, it tastes like battery acid.

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.

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-39559323

Drink every time you hear "Tim Horton's" in Somebody Knows Something, season 2.

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

tim hortons is not canadian

oh christ here comes some hortonsplaining

I agree with that in the sense of refusing to affirm a fucking donut chain as emblematic of Canadianness.

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.

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

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.

otm

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?)

phew i'm glad my v serious post about the canadianisation of the uk is getting the forensic attention it deserves

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?

that's very possible

but then again each province might as well be its own country right?

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

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.

Interesting! I just assumed it was because nobody cared about such stuff--there's actual history behind it.

Tims, partly because I'm using their WiFi right now

(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.)

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.

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

Road trips

lol

is this a frequent thing for u

Long drives? Yes.

that's fair

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

oh god I want to go to banff so so bad

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

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.

Starbucks doesn't have a buffalo-sauce latte:
http://www.grubstreet.com/2017/10/tim-hortons-introduces-buffalo-sauce-latte.html

Destroy both. IF they were the only two options I'd probably take starbucks just because I of strength/caffeine content.

. 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

Tim Hortons > the band Poison > 7-11 > literal poison > Starbucks (probably > the Buffalo latte)

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).

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

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.

I'm always mindful of crossing symbolic barriers in terms of getting-old, and I think I crossed one today: an email to Tim Hortons concerning tea biscuits.

Maddening: how much Tim Hortons elevates mobile orders over human beings standing in line...They'll have one very over-worked student filling mobile order after mobile order while five of us stand waiting; the student won't even make eye contact with anyone in line because that's what they've been told to do, attend to mobile no matter how many walk-in people are waiting. I'm quite sure there's some sound cost-time-profit analysis behind this strategy, which doesn't make it any less maddening if you're one of those walk-ins.

(a) TimBits (b) Iced Capp
The defence rests

huh, I have a Tim Horton's about 2 minutes walk from my house which is perpetually understaffed so I once made a mobile order thinking it might be faster but it took me about 5 minutes to get somebody's attention when I got there and they had not even started on my order. It would have been quicker to just wait in line. Though I guess the highest priority at my Tim Horton's is very clearly the drive-through.

Where are you? I'm moving there...Mobile rules the world in St. Marys.

This is in Montreal (or I guess Saint-Laurent, if you want to be specific), I wouldn't move here for this Tim Horton's, see the "perpetually understaffed" part of my previous response.

The scant Tim Hortons in the UK sell breaded chicken and potato wedges and no sandwiches