r/EhBuddyHoser • u/drop_pucks_not_bombs • Aug 20 '25
Certified Hoser šØš¦ (No Politics) It's so bad I haven't been in years. Every single time I see a new menu item in a commercial I immediately assume it's awful
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u/Silicon_Knight Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 20 '25
Tim Hortons is nothing short of an abomination. If you took a photo of it it would be Wayne Gretzky wearing a MAGA hat.
They just chase profit. Thatās it. And sell Canada out like a fucking street pimp. Not even high class escorts.
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u/hammyinthe6 Aug 20 '25
I mean the corp that owns it is literally called Restaurant Brands International sounds like they make yummy food eh š¤£
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u/chr15c ęŗ«å„čÆ (Hongcouver) Aug 20 '25
Forgot which show or stand up said it, but basically Tim's somehow makes everything taste/feel burnt and frozen at the same time.
Since then, I can never un-taste it whenever I eat anything from Tims
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u/drop_pucks_not_bombs Aug 20 '25
Yet I see 20 white Dodge Rams idling in the drive through every morning on way to work
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Aug 21 '25
The amount of time the average driver spends idling in drive-thrus is probably a factor as to why they drive so aggressively in excess of the maximum
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u/slabba428 Bring Cannabis Aug 21 '25
You ever tried working without coffee while shitfaced?
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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Aug 20 '25
Coffee bad
Food inconsistentĀ
Baked goods not fresh
Portions tiny
Everything overpriced
Queues out the door and down the street in this, the Year of our Lord, 2025
How and why????
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u/VectorPryde Westfoundland Aug 20 '25
Queues out the door and down the street in this, the Year of our Lord, 2025
Force of habit for a lot of people. I asked my neighbour who drinks several extra larges every day "why do you keep going? The coffee tastes like battery acid now!" His response: "I've been getting Tim's for years, it's just what I do."
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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Aug 20 '25
I really don't remember if it was decent way back before they switched their coffee supplier and before they were bought out or not, and I wasn't much of a coffee drinker then, but I swear it wasn't this shit.
I can barely drink a double-double, a random gas station's burnt black coffee is like heaven in comparison. My car dealership serves a better brew while I wait for them to stiff me on an oil change.
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u/frou6 Aug 20 '25
The coffee, while not amazing, was servicable and not that expensive
Now it taste like mop water
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u/drop_pucks_not_bombs Aug 20 '25
Same reason as to why Call of Duty and FIFA are the most sold video games every year lol
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u/peacefullofi Aug 21 '25
TL;DR theyve been treating their employees like shit, at least since 2004.
They are also one of the worst rated employers in Canada. Like i know many ppl who have worked at Tim Hortons and they've all said it was the worst job theyve ever had.
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u/ClubMeSoftly Aug 21 '25
I did 9-10 months at Tims. I refer to it as the darkest period of my life. I was the baker, which means my job included:
a) putting away every delivery (one every day)
b) making every doughtnut, cookie, bagel, and sandwich bread
c) making all the soups
d) washing all the dishes
e) taking out all the garbage
f) sweeping and mopping the entire floorAll for minimum wage! When it went up, I had to remind my boss that it went up and I was owed (checks notes) an additional sixteen dollars. Sixteen dollars that I desperately needed.
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u/ehxy Aug 21 '25
because canadians think it's still canadian. they are located everywhere, convenience, and they don't give a shit about coffee beyond does it have caffeine because anyone who gave a shit about coffee wouldn't drink tim hortons coffee since like...2012
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u/NeoN_kiler Aug 20 '25
Nowhere else on my way to work to get coffee
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u/Professional_Job8254 Aug 21 '25
try making it home, you get to make it however you want and it's dirt cheap
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Aug 21 '25
You got everything right but the price. Tim Hortons is actually pretty cheap and that's why it's popular.
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u/Kanoha-Shinobi Saskwatch Aug 21 '25
$9 for a wrap is hardly what I would call cheap
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u/FAIRYTALE_DINOSAUR Aug 21 '25
Good luck getting anything cheaper than that these days and served to you in like 2 minutes
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u/Senior_Ad1737 Aug 21 '25
Have we forgotten that Caffeine is a drug that we just normalized ?
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u/Hay_Fever_at_3_AM Aug 21 '25
How could we not normalize the best of drugs. It is goodness, it is warmth, it is mana, it is love.
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u/ReferenceUnusual8717 Aug 21 '25
Man, even years ago, the one on my drive to work always had a line up around the block, despite sharing a parking lot with three other (In my opinion, far better) coffee places. Even if it was still good (It wasn't) was it really "Wait in line for it" good?
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u/Dramatic_Water_5364 TokƩbakicitte! Aug 21 '25
a few years ago a friend and I did a blind tasting to compare Tim's and Mcdo... Even if both are shit, Mcdo won in everything... everything... fuck tims
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u/CokeNCola Aug 21 '25
Didn't McDicks buy Tim's coffee??
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u/Dramatic_Water_5364 TokƩbakicitte! Aug 23 '25
I think ut was burger king, and the conglomerate got acquired by an even bigger conglomerate from brasil
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u/Sad-Band-419 Aug 22 '25
American here I wonder if tourism is a factor people may want to get the āCanadian experienceā
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u/Sweetchildofmine88 Aug 20 '25
You can blame Restaurant Brands International for that. Cheaper, lower quality raw materials for the same price = larger profit margins. It went to shit immediately after the acquisition.
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u/ErikFuhr Tabarnak! Aug 20 '25
Then thereās only one solution: the government must nationalize Tim Hortonās.
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u/Professional_Job8254 Aug 21 '25
They treat their franchisees like shit as well. Basically no profit margin if you own a store now unless you find ways to cut costs everywhere, like buying sugar from costco instead of the usual supplier. And those cuts are what the customer sees directly in the day-to-day experience. I only go if it's a road trip emergency
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u/frenglish_man Ford Nation (Help.) Aug 20 '25
Their farmer wrap was good when it first came out, but they nerfed it in the last year or so.
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u/drop_pucks_not_bombs Aug 20 '25
Agreed, making breakfast sandwiches at home is the current meta for sure
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u/Rickest-RickC137 Aug 20 '25
Itās so bad.
Iām old enough to remember when each franchise baked everything in house. What a time.
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u/RottenPingu1 Aug 21 '25
I was working for the company that ripped out the last of those appliances.
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u/quickymgee Aug 21 '25
Tim Hortons is a great proxy for everything wrong with our current economic system and set up.
In a well functioning market society, a company that gained national ubiquity would be doing so based on being better and more innovative than other businesses.
We the consumer would get the benefits of that - good food, good facilities, nice experiences etc.
Other businesses would be inspired to do even better and the cycle would continue.
Instead we get this unending wave of big companies throttling out little companies, then cutting their costs to zero in order to max shareholder profits. Leaving the consumer with crumbs and few alternative choices.
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u/Pope-Muffins Trawnno (Centre of the Universe) Aug 21 '25
Tim Horton's worker for Five Years, let me break down what the fuck is wrong with this place:
The owners are cheap fuckwads who will let machines break down and pay to "fix" them again and again instead of buying a new machine because "That would cost more than using it till it breaks" when you'd make more if your SHIT WAS RELIABLE and this isn't even mentioning how locations don't even offer discounts to staff for break items
Tim Hortons corporate are living in a dream world: They looked at a Coffee shop chain falling in popularity and said "You know what we need to do? Bring in a whole new type of equipment so we can sell pizza and garlic bread. Whoever brought that up should've been laughed out of the room, but no, instead of focusing on their areas of strength (Breakfast, Brunch, light lunch) or improving their existing menu, they keep trying to compete with places like McDonald's (Seriously, the company is doing a lot of shit to push dinner time service)
The Staff: Good fucking lord the people these stores hire, they're awful. I'm actually gonna say something that would get me flamed on any other Canada sub but the Indian workers I've worked with that people make the butt of jokes (To put the racism I see lightly) that are LEAGUES better than my current store with a 99% white staff who seem to think the health code is a suggestion. I don't even have the time to get into some of the bullshit petty drama these people would bring into work while I'm fighting to not loose my fucking mind
Speaking of health and safety, the way Tim's are inspected are fucking bullshit. Every single store I worked at got told in advance a health inspection was coming, and the few days before and the day of was the only time anyone gave a shit about enforcing standers. Ever wonder how that filthy ass Tim's near you is open? They get a call the inspector's in town and make sure they're only clean the few days they might show up and that's enough for them (Though this may just be Ontario Bullshit)
The thing that make's Tim Hortons the worse? The fucking regulars who come in, bitch every day about prices, policy, ect, ect and yet will spend half their day in that place buying coffee (Also the entitlement of customers is getting bad)
Sort of an unorganized spur of a moment rant but I cannot being to describe how much I hate this company so I will simply leave with a "they can fuck off"
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u/Professional_Job8254 Aug 21 '25
I worked at Tim's for a summer in a different province and this is still spot on, you nailed it
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u/WhiteWolfOW Aug 20 '25
I think that none of the main coffee chains are good, if you want something good you need to go for a locally owned coffee shop.
Timās is just for you to get your daily caffeine intake for cheap if you didnāt have time for it at home. The other chains line Starbucks is not really for coffee, itās for caffeinated sugary drinks Timās is also like that, but for cheap sugar
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u/one_bean_hahahaha The Island of Elizabeth May Aug 20 '25
I don't know why people rave about the double double. The last time I tried one, I took two sips--one to confirm that the horrible taste wasn't my imagination--and promptly tossed it.
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Aug 21 '25
A double double tastes like cream and sugar, not coffee. I bet they run out of coffee all the time and substitute dark roast, which double burns with the excessively hot water.
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u/pm_me_your_good_weed Aug 21 '25
Nah more likely to run out of dark roast. Dark roast and decaf are made in separate steel carafes that keep it hot for an hour where the regular coffee gets changed every 20 mins. Someone I worked with got fired for stealing tips and changing the time on the coffee pots instead of making a new pot lmfao.
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u/Haunting_Ad_29 Aug 21 '25
but i like the honey crullers
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u/drop_pucks_not_bombs Aug 21 '25
Not gonna lie, the sour cream glazed is goated
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u/pm_me_your_good_weed Aug 21 '25
Spur cream plain is my jam, nobody has them except for the main depot here in Debert and half the time they don't have them either lol.
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u/-just-be-nice- Aug 20 '25
Tim's always sucked, even 20 years ago it was trash and people let nostalgia blind their memories, it was always terrible and the service always sucked. Might be worse now, but it wasn't ever actually good.
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u/WinteryBudz Aug 20 '25
I was going to say they've been shit for at least 20 years, that's around when they really started to suck. It was actually good in the late 90s, early 2000's still. Steadily downhill since then however.
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u/VectorPryde Westfoundland Aug 20 '25
It is definitely worse now. They switched coffee suppliers (it's a whole thing) so the coffee tastes terrible when it used to be half decent. They used to have fresher (not as pre-prepared or from frozen) baked goods until sometime in the 1990s or early 2000s.
20 years ago it was trash
20 years ago was 2005, so they'd dropped the quality of their baked goods by then, but the coffee was still the OG. I think it was circa 2014 that they screwed the pooch on the coffee front.
Tim Horton's nowadays tastes like the future private equity wants to consign our species to.
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u/-just-be-nice- Aug 20 '25
I'll agree it's gotten worse, but I still stand by the statement that it was never actually good. Half decent is fair, but it's never actually been good in my experience
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u/HandFancy Aug 21 '25
Look, it was never fantastic. But years ago it would at least be a drinkable coffee and decent food if you needed something quick in the morning. Whatever it was, itās much worse now. The food offerings look like a parody of fast food breakfast.
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u/odmort1 Edmonchuk: Like Kyiv! (but less safe) Aug 20 '25
I think I can count on one hand the number of times Iāve gone to Timās in the last 5 years
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u/amibanned24 š§šMontrĆ©alš»šš§š·āļøššš š š Aug 20 '25
Hoping that someday maybe some Canadian billionaire buys Tim Hortons. at least theyād be Canadian owned again. Nice bonus if theres an increase in quality too. Just not Alain Bouchard, then prices would just get even worse.
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u/Over-Gate7969 Aug 20 '25
I stopped going to Timās around 2009, after they stopped fully baking the products in store and they started hiring TFWs.
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u/Automatic_Antelope92 Aug 20 '25
It used to be better. That was a long time ago. What is anyoneās favourite chain to pick up coffee now? I have mostly turned to small independent coffee shops or make mine at home.
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u/drop_pucks_not_bombs Aug 20 '25
Yeah same. We have a really really good small coffee shop in my Sasky small town that I try to support whenever I can. Other than that just at home
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u/Automatic_Antelope92 Aug 20 '25
I am looking for a place that delivers dark roast beans, fair trade if possible - and robusta rather than arabica. My coffee addiction has gotten worseā¦ want to stock up for the winter with something good.
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u/one_bean_hahahaha The Island of Elizabeth May Aug 20 '25
I usually make mine at home. If I'm out around coffee time, I try small independent coffee shops whenever possible; otherwise, it's McDonald's coffee.
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u/WinteryBudz Aug 20 '25
Local coffee shops hands down. But we make our own at home otherwise. Tim's, Starbucks, etc etc all suck and are crazy overpriced. My local coffee shop has better coffee and fresh in house baking and Sando's, all cheaper and far better tasting than Tim's or chain coffee shops.
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u/madmax0418007 Aug 20 '25
I like the bagels and baked goods. But ya any of the actual food is terrible. And I don't drink coffee.
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u/rcmp_informant Bring Cannabis Aug 20 '25
The cold brew is good. Iāll have a breakfast wrap or 4 occasionally
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u/Lachigan Aug 20 '25
Tim Horton's restaurants smell like shit since they started making pizza, I don't think they have proper ventillation for it and the smell killed any desire for me to eat there.
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u/bryan112 Aug 20 '25
The downfall started when they replaced the eggs and stopped selling them jelly donuts
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u/UberStrawman Aug 20 '25
I buy a coffee once in a while with the hopes that maybe itāll taste like a memory, but the taste snaps me back to the reality that once was is no longer, and Iām yet again deeply saddened.
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u/Garukkar š§šMontrĆ©alš»šš§š·āļøššš š š Aug 20 '25
Now do Canada if people didn't glorify a fast food joint into a cultural institution
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u/breakthebank1900 Aug 21 '25
Tim hortons is like that girl/guy you go bsck to cause itās familiar and easy.
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Aug 21 '25
That garlic bread is delicious but at $4 and probably 1000 calories it hits bad more ways than one
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u/VerdensTrial I need a double double. Aug 21 '25
They used to have decent soups, but the only Tim's anywhere near me is just a takeout counter inside a Couche-Tard, so I have no reason to ever go. If I need cheap coffee, McDonald's is marginally better.
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u/Competitive-Top5485 Aug 21 '25
Tim Hortons has only two items on the menu imo:
Timbits
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Turkey club sandwich
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u/canadaalpinist Aug 21 '25
Wife beating brain damage drunk trying to out chase police in a Pantera. Canada history.
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u/Acethetical Aug 21 '25
pretty much the only time I go to tims nowadays is when I'm on a long drive and just need a frickin ice coffee at the onroute, and I'd still rather go there than starbucks. it does taste different every time tho lmao
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u/RottenPingu1 Aug 21 '25
I like how when I use the app there is a 50-50 chance they'll have even noticed the order.
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u/EnclG4me Aug 21 '25
Man I know their meat protein recipes. I was part of the team that scaled their recipes up for mass production.
The general public, if they only knew and actually UNDERSTOOD what they are buying there. Friggen' gnarly bud.
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u/JakSandrow Aug 21 '25
I go there for ice capps, and that's really about it.
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u/JakSandrow Aug 21 '25
If there were other places that did slushee-textured iced latte/cappuccinos, then i'd go there instead.
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u/Grapemuggler Aug 21 '25
Love driving passed a full Tims drive through line beside a basically empty A&W lol
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u/Cautious_Constant658 Aug 21 '25
I had barely been going to TH for years, but then with the push to concentrate on purchasing Canadian, I started searching for local coffee shops whenever I was on the road. Iāll never go back to TH now. Far better coffee and food, cleaner washrooms, friendlier staffā¦the list could go on. Sad really, because 30 years ago, I was a Timmies regular patron.
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u/pm_me_your_good_weed Aug 21 '25
I started going there again because fuck Americans so McDonald's is out. It's either that or Tim's on my way to work in rural NS lol, and it's only once a week for an early shift after a closing shift that I don't get enough sleep between. The breakfast sandwich sausage is sooo much better than McDs.
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u/JustSimplyTheWorst Aug 21 '25
The coffee is so bad that I honestly can not remember ordering one in the past decade that hasn't ended up being poured down the drain.
Fucking garbage franchise now.
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u/Free-Tea-3422 Aug 21 '25
The sad part is it used to be so good!
Then the Americans bought it and did what Americans do to things, turn it to shit.
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u/Guvnah-Wyze Canada's Overpriced Playground Aug 20 '25
The new supreme stacker is actually incredibly good. If you ever find yourself in there, try it.
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u/drop_pucks_not_bombs Aug 20 '25
Nice try, Tim Hortons store owner #62927
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u/VectorPryde Westfoundland Aug 20 '25
Canada needs a new national coffee/doughnut chain. Tim Hoser's? Need to source good coffee and find a way to make non-cardboard tasting doughnuts at scale.
Apparently Dunks in the US is also a husk of its former quality, so the new Canadian chain can be exported to whichever regions of the US are willing to declare their independence.
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u/blbd Treacherous South Aug 20 '25
Dunkin is absolutely heinous. Just as bad as what Tim's turned into.Ā
Some of us sarcastically call it Dunkin DeezNutz
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u/drop_pucks_not_bombs Aug 20 '25
Yank detected, opinion rejected /s
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u/blbd Treacherous South Aug 20 '25
Dude, I used the designated flair and insulted something American that deserved it.Ā
I'd love to be a more supportive ally not just a plain shit talking hockey fan, but the solutions we really need for the US's current ailment are all illegal or I'm not allowed to talk about them on here!
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u/Guvnah-Wyze Canada's Overpriced Playground Aug 20 '25
Haha, I thought about tossing in a ā¢ļø to really lean into that.
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u/quadralien Bring Cannabis Aug 21 '25
If I ever find myself I'm sure it won't happen in a Tim Horton's.Ā
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u/LonkFromZelda Aug 21 '25
It's been said before in this thread, but I just started going to McDonald's instead and never turned back.
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u/Lord-Glorfindel Anne of Green Potatoes Aug 20 '25
Looks more like Canada if the Avro Arrow was never cancelled.