BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: meself
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 03:59 PM

Ah! Thanks for that; I'm feeling better already - even though I'm just finishing a cup of Red Rose ...

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Cool Beans
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 04:42 PM

Travis tea? Is it dark as a dungeon?

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Rapparee
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 05:25 PM

My God! A flying cupnsaucer landed by that poor factory!

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 06:40 PM

I'm eating Timbits as I'm writing this...

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 07:07 PM

Red Rose? aaaahhhhggghhhhh

Bob.... mmmmm... bits are goooood. Well, last time I had em.... about 1995.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: GUEST,Bob Ryszkiewicz
Date: 19 Mar 09 - 07:31 PM

My personal fav doughnut...Chocolate covered with coconut... a near religious experience...BR

Then, Boston Cream w/Chocolate...

And "Rousette", looks like a tire from a John Deere Tractor, vanilla & honey coated...

Makes you wanna do a "hat trick" doesn't it? But that would be indecent...
BR

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 09:02 AM

Depends on what you hang your hat on....

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: GUEST,leeneia
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 10:36 AM

'My God! A flying cupnsaucer landed by that poor factory!'

For those who have not been paying proper attention, Rapaire's remark refers to gnu's link above.

Be comforted, Rapaire. I love the concept of a flying cupnsaucer, but what you see there is the heated public swimming pool of that lucky Nova Scotia town.

At the time the pool was built, a cup of tea was the only warm thing the inhabitants could envision.

The mystery of the gigantic teapot remains unsolved.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 01:59 PM

At the time the pool was built, a cup of tea was the only warm thing the inhabitants could envision.

Which is why the population had declined to nearly nothing.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Les from Hull
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 02:54 PM

I hate all these multi-national chain store food and drink outlets and avoid them all like the plague. Why don't you go to your locally-owned and run place and support them unless you want to see every High Street in every town in the world look exactly the same, and be served the same crap by some poor minimum-wage sap who has no stake in the business and give your money to some vile greedy company with little or no ethics and far too much power/influence.

Perhaps you have fond memories of some friendly local food and drink outlet of years ago that was forced out of business by one of these multi-nationals, who can afford to run a branch at a loss for ages, ubtil there is no local competition. McDonalds, Dunkin' Donuts, Starbucks - they're all scum, in my opinion.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 03:04 PM

Well said, Les.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Rapparee
Date: 20 Mar 09 - 06:00 PM

Whenever possible I buy locally.

Why shouldn't I support the people who pay my salary??

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: JohnB
Date: 21 Mar 09 - 12:45 AM

My wife and I really appreciated the Tim Horton's we stopped at in 2007 on our road trip from Ontario (Toronto,ish) to Vancouver Island and back.
Not only for the Coffee and the Egg Salad Wraps and the Muffins, they were a good clean place to pull over and have a PEEE or whatever else you needed to get rid of at the time.
JohnB.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: GUEST,EBarnacle on a friend's computer
Date: 21 Mar 09 - 06:56 PM

I guess the only advantage of the chains is that when you go in you know exactly what to expect: Standardized merchandise usually not very good but the same where ever you go. Give me the Mom and Pop and I'll take my chances.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Rapparee
Date: 21 Mar 09 - 10:09 PM

Knowing what to expect when you go in is called "branding." You know what the brand will have/do: Coca-Cola, McDonald's, Starbucks, etc. are pretty much the same around the world.

Awhile back the library world decided we needed "branding" so being of an odd turn of mind I thought branding was good idea. So I registered a brand for the Library (it's MPL connected, with a rocker, if you speak brand-speak), bought two irons and now we can brand cattle and horses on the left hip, sheep anywhere, and staff members on the left hip and right shoulder. Also, the kids love the temporary tattoos -- and we have a registered logo for US $85.00 AND the distinction of probably being the only public library in North America with our own brand.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: catspaw49
Date: 22 Mar 09 - 09:04 AM

Once upon a time the majority of the chains WERE local shops.

I do know what you mean Les, but most of the franchises here are locally owned and not company op stores. I'm no fan of Mickey D's but we have 4 around here all owned by the same guy who started with a little joint back in the 60's and got a McDonald's franchise a few years later. He runs a better Mac than many others and his standards and dedication and hard work have turned 1 into 4 over the years and they are all owned by his family (sons and daughters).

So yeah......I do know what you mean but there is also a flip side.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: number 6
Date: 22 Mar 09 - 11:31 AM

There is a flip side ... some of those mom and pop joints are atrocious.

biLL

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 11:31 AM

New York! New York!

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: EBarnacle
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 12:05 PM

Oh, expletive! We've been invaded by Canucks.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: catspaw49
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 12:11 PM

Yeah......Well the flipside of that is that we've taken on at many of our Tim's location, the Cold Stone Creamery line of the World's Most Expensive Ice Cream. Maybe they go well in New York but there are still plenty of local makers around here who beat the crap out of them and most other national brands. Even worse, it has slowed down the dreive-thru service.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 13 Jul 09 - 12:53 PM

Never had any ice cream there... only ever had "timbits" (go ahead) which are bite size donuts, 60 in a box (there may be different sizes).

Never had the soup in a "bread bowl" (I dunno) that you eat after the soup.

And I don't drink coffee.

But, I do drive and the bastards fuck up the traffic with people lined up in the street trying to get in for their fix.

Wish I owned a Tim's or ten.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Peace
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 03:58 AM

Was
in
Kamloops
a
while
back.
The
lineup
for
lunch
was
about
twenty
people.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: ranger1
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 10:08 AM

I'll admit to eating at Tim Horton's on occasion. Usually when I don't have the time for a sit-down meal at a place with real food. The coffee is atrocious and I usually just grab a breakfast sandwich and then drive down to the corner gas station for my coffee fix. I don't much care for Dunkin Donunts coffee, either.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Rapparee
Date: 14 Jul 09 - 12:58 PM

With no Tim Horton's I only have Starbucks to complain about, and I don't deal with them except at airports.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 08:08 AM

Awww, isn't that sweet?

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Bob the Postman
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 09:28 AM

I have been advised to sell my shares in Tim Horton's as the company's performance has gone flat. I will miss the opportunity to vote the post office CEO off of Timmy's board of directors.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: bankley
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 02:05 PM

maybe, American billionaire, Nelson Peltz will buy a few more shares.... he's CEO/owner of Arby's/Wendys and a major player in the TH chain... he also donated $250,000 to GW Bush's re-election campaign...

hey Nelson.... roll this up

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 02:32 PM

Tims is great, and will probably get better now that it is once again Canadian owned (they started putting high fructose corn syrup in their products when they were owned by Wendy's). Dunkin Donuts sux by comparison.

The best tea in the world is Lifeboat Tea. Anyone who hasn't tried it just doesn't know.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 02:44 PM

On the subject of locally owned and operated: the locally owned and operated coffee shop that has its origins here in "the Port City" (Port City Java) is now in the process of taking over the world. Just goes to show...

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 03:21 PM

"... donated $250,000 to GW Bush's re-election.."

Really? Fuck Tim's.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 03:46 PM

But they're under new ownership now. Different people than the ones who contributed to Bush's campaign.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: CarolC
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 03:52 PM

Actually, maybe not. I just now read that they're being "reorganized under a new publicly-traded company, also named 'Tim Hortons Inc.', incorporated under the Canada Business Corporations Act", but that it's being done for tax purposes, so I don't know if it's going to be the same or different people at the helm. Ah well...

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: robomatic
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 06:21 PM

I was in a Tim Horton's in Edomonton just to see what th' hell it is and was not impressed. I don't see what they have to offer that DD's does not.

When I think of Canada I think of superior fish and chips and socks that don't come with deoderant embedded in the soles. I think of different types of honey for sale without being in the natural foods section of the shope, of goat's milk soap and aero bars.

I used to think of ginger beer but that seems to have migrated to the natural foods part of the shop. I have to look for it special in the states, too.

I don't think of big greasy donuts.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 06:34 PM

Ever had spruce beer? That's a treat and a half.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 06:37 PM

Spruce beer... lord t'underin! Yer scrapin da bottom a da Kent County backbush now son.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: bobad
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 06:39 PM

Mmmm......biere d'epinette I used to love that - did you ever have the home made stuff that some places used to sell - it came in those bottles with the wire baled porcelain caps?

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 06:42 PM

Was a place called Tico-Tico's that sold it like that, Bobad. Loved the stuff. The commercial stuff isn't all that good, but I think there are still a few places the 'homemade' can be procured.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 06:48 PM

As for quality: it's much the same everywhere. Used to be the donuts were made on the premises. Now they're made elsewhere and shipped in. Ain't the same. BUT, what IS the same is fires at 35 below zero and the town's Tim Horton's will make us a monster big pot of coffee with the fixings, tea if we want, food, etc. The owners are great people.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 06:52 PM

BIINGO.

There was some at the Atwater Market.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 06:57 PM

That is great of them, Peace!

Yeah... just sommat about buying a donut here in Moncton that was made at a huge factory in Tronna and trucked here frozen that would ture me off if I actualy wanted to buy a huge piece of sugar.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Mooh
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 08:03 PM

I'm a block from Tim Horton's...make that one coffee or one muffin from Tim Horton's, 'cause that's the trash we pick up almost every day.

There's a Timmy's on the spot where the public school stood in my home town, and it has its own turn lane off the highway.

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 08:28 PM

Money can buy stuff like that. Imagine.. coffee and doughnuts can buy highway access. Next, they will sell us bottled water without fluoride! Nahhhhh???

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Mooh
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 08:53 PM

Round the early '70s I delivered morning newspapers and every Saturday morning (and other piggy times) I treated myself and the family to a bag of "day old" donuts from the Tim Horton's at the end of my route. Ten cents a dozen. It was a newish chain then.

There didn't used to be any THs between my place and the family cottage 2 hours north, now there are 5, not including the one a block away. There didn't used to be any THs between my place and a place I used to work an hour east, now there are 5.

They are taking over.
Pretty soon they'll have a seat in parliament.
Tim Horton himself will be on the new $5 coin.
A Tim Horton allowance will be written into collective agreements.
Toyota will make a Tim Horton model Rav4 (a la Eddie Bauer Ford Explorer).

Peace, Mooh.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: robomatic
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 08:55 PM

I've stayed away from donuts regardless of their origin. I hang out at a local espresso joint in Anchortown. If Tim Horton's doesn't do internet I'm not interested. That is just as true of DD's, but there ain't DD's in Anchorage anyhow. We've got good local donuts and bagels available. As for espresso, our per capita consumption is highest in the land, Seattle is way behind.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Peace
Date: 07 Sep 09 - 08:57 PM

Yeah, but you have Dino's, Golden and Jerry's.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Jamming With Ollie Beak (inactive)
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 12:24 PM

Being a Canadian in England, I do have my priorities, so having seen this thread, I went on the net prowl and found the following:

Tim Hortons in Spars in the UK.

In England:

SPAR 56 Haymarket Picadilly London SW1Y 4RN
SPAR Robert Jones Way Battlsfields Roundabout Battlefields SY4 3EQ
SPAR 37 Station Road Bedlington Northumberland NE22 5PP
SPAR 305 Prescott Rd St Anns St Helens WA10 3HW
SPAR 25 Grove Road Eastbourse Sussex BN21 4TT
SPAR Bath Road Bridgewater TA6 4TJ
SPAR Mercury Point Terminus Terrace Southampton SO15 3ET
SPAR Roundswell Service Station Roundswell Barnstaple EX31 3RZ
SPAR 114 East Street Southampton SO14 3HD
SPAR Lower Ground Floor Commercial Road Southampton SO15 1GX

In Wales:

SPAR 176-178 City Road Cardiff CF24 4TF
SPAR 4-8 Heol-y-Deri Rhiwbina Cardiff CF14 6HF
SPAR 133B Woodville Road Cathays Cardiff
SPAR 13 Duffryn Rd Rhydfelin Mid Glamorgan CF37 5RW
SPAR 57 High Street Cowbridge Vale of Glamorgan CF71 7AF
SPAR 55 Charles Street Milford Haven Pembrokeshire SA73 2AA
SPAR1093 Camarthen Road Fforstfach Swansea SA5 4AL
SPAR 102 Gower Rd Sketty Swansea SA2 9BZ
SPAR 16 High Street Tywyn Gwynedd LL36 9AD

In Scotland:

SPAR 71 Port Dundas Road Cowcaddens Glasgow G4 0HK
SPAR 114-116 Glamis Rd Dundee DD2 2ES
SPAR 130-132 High Street Irvine Ayrshire KA12 8AH
SPAR 12 Portland Street Troon Ayrshire KA10 6EA
SPAR Unit 2-3 Drummers Corner Peterhead Aberdeenshire AB42 1PR

Charlotte Olivia Robertson (Ms)
off to Timmies

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Rapparee
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 12:31 PM

England has Tim's...but none in Pocatello, Idaho.

I don't know whether to cry or to rejoice.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: Jamming With Ollie Beak (inactive)
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 12:37 PM

Oh dear...in that case, Rapaire, I shouldn't show you
Tim Hortons brings a taste of home to (Canadian) troops in Kandahar

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 01:49 PM

Dunno why Tim's charge soldiers like this for a cup of coffee.

Subject: RE: BS: Why no Tim Horton's here?
From: gnu
Date: 08 Sep 09 - 01:50 PM

"... water rises to my eyes..." Bruce Cockburn