| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 3:14:02 AM | Gotta be a Canuck to get this one.... or you could be just across the border.. first time at Tims I was driving across Ontario to Detroit. Wonderful coffee.. glad we have it here in NY
Just how good IS this guy's coffee?.... VERY GOOD; way better than Starbucks (too bitter IMO) or McD's | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 3:18:19 AM | I've done the gorge several times, it's a nice ride, however, that was before I joined POF. Now, in the summer, the water levels and the rapids are relatively low. I'll bring a life jacket and a bucket, you can keep bailing us out (you can also scream COMING THROUGH and photograph all the onlookers on the bridge), while I'll handle the negotiating part.................
tryagain- sounds like fun! | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 4:36:54 AM | Bllody hell free coffee - I am up for that
but the £1,000 air fare stamps on that idea - dammit foiled again Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
OP love it laughing is a good thing | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 5:42:44 AM | | Being a Canuck is a cult. No place like it. Who else would build an ice hotel, think +2 is a balmy day in the winter, would love the cottage even if it's black fly season, and swim in the Atlantic on vacation. We are a hardy bunch. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 8:01:23 AM | ^^^keep it down, wouldja... we don't want to be over-run with foreigners wanting to get in!
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance / cafes
Posted: 8/1/2009 10:26:16 AM | ^^^^^^ coffee and croissants on the main in montreal in february, walking in the summer in vancouver by english bay, those wooden saltbox houses in halifax, the pictographs off the transcanada north of the sault... sigh
you guys are making me homesick for places in canada where i don't even live...
oh and for almost every timmies there's a little cafe somewhere run by an interesting person vaguely in their forties with a dog that lies near the counter, head on paws....
Linux Cafe at Harbord and Grace in Toronto, Starving Artist on Lansdowne north of Bloor, Jazz Cafe on Howard Park just west of Roncesvalles...(no dogs at these, sorry i got carried away)
would love it if people were to share lovely cafes in different parts of the country, hope this might be somehow inversely OT | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 10:36:18 AM |
The small town that I am in had Horton's try to get council permission to build a Horton's here. The requested location was next door to our seniors building...
So now folks actually have to drive 10 mins. either way on the main highway to get their Horton's fix.
Never mind the new city folks. I wonder how the seniors next door felt about it. What I find remarkable when I walk into a Timmy's in Sydney or North Sydney is the social life of seniors in the place. It's packed, loud with chatter and laughter. It seems to be *the* senior hang-out and a place to meet others.
Many seniors don't drive or have cars. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 10:56:32 AM |
Never mind the new city folks. I wonder how the seniors next door felt about it. What I find remarkable when I walk into a Timmy's in Sydney or North Sydney is the social life of seniors in the place. It's packed, loud with chatter and laughter. It seems to be *the* senior hang-out and a place to meet others.
Many seniors don't drive or have cars.
As well, many seniors are on a fixed income so going to Timmie's for coffee might very well be the only "treat" that they are able to afford to give themselves while gathering with fellow seniors for the social aspect of it all.
As an aside: While Timmies may not be to everyone's liking, it saddens me to see some knocking what so many others seem to get some enjoyment from. What ever happened to being polite and courteous to others - if you haven't got something nice to say, then don't say anything? | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 11:39:27 AM |
As an aside: While Timmies may not be to everyone's liking, it saddens me to see some knocking what so many others seem to get some enjoyment from. What ever happened to being polite and courteous to others - if you haven't got something nice to say, then don't say anything?
...I agree. I tend to ignore those negative remarks.... some people have a way of sucking the fun out of everything.
...maeflowers | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 11:56:19 AM | My annoyance with Hortons is that not every one think that it is anything important. However, we have to listen over and over about how all Canadians are addicted to the place, and can't live without their Horton fix. Tired of being treated like a leaper because it isn't a place we want to go.
Anything I do gets boring if I don't pepper it with alternative. I would much rather go to a different place often that do the same old thing again and again.
Funny how so many people have an expectation that everyone else has to enjoy the same things they do.
I am pleased that most people in my town felt so strongly against Horton's that they were refuse their application to set up business here. The location that they thought they just had to have is currently being turned in to new and much larger medical facility that the one we had. The town needs the larger medical centre far more than needs a Horton's. We already have several coffee shops. We could use a Chinese Restaurant though. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 12:41:43 PM | | Not everyone is addicted to Timmy's. But it is quintessential Canadian and that' s why people feel affection. I know all the places that Serendipity mentioned and they truly are special. And better than Timmy's. We don't all love Tim's because of the coffee- although i confess to a few Tim's every week. We love it because it is OURS. Say Timmy's and we all know what we mean. None of those other places have that. And that's what makes it special | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 1:29:37 PM | Tim Hoton's markets itself as quintessentially Canadian but it is an American subsidiary of Wendy's. And it's horrible coffee. And who would go there for a date for even a meet and greet? I take my 70 yr. old father there for the soup. Wouldn't a locally owned spot with ambiance and its own flair be much more interesting? Comfy chairs, soft music in the background (as opposed to Muzak), homemade cookies.
National treasure my a**! | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 1:45:57 PM | | I don't understand why so many people don't get that small businesses are the back bone of a country. Unique and small little Canadian coffee shops are just as great, if not better than Horton's. It just shows that it pays to advertise being a Canadian chain. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 2:13:46 PM | | We all love Tim's roots. We all know the story. And they support very Canadian charities. Send a kid to camp is Canadian. Yes, Wendy's bought out the widow after Tim died- but that doesn't change its identity. And btw, Tim's didn't work in the US. Americans just don't get us. Like they don't get poutine, back bacon, lacrosse, hockey, and saying 'ay at the end of every sentence. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 3:25:29 PM | | That's the best Canada has to offer the world? Bad coffee, bacon, 2 sports, fries with cheese and gravy, and "'eh". Sheesh. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 3:59:46 PM | | Cheeky: Never said it was all we had to offer. Said this is the part Americans don't get. Along with many other things. You're a Canadian. You know what an amazing place this is. Rockies, Cabot Trail, PEI, Muskoka (why do you think Hollywood is here?), low crime, respect, politeness, the Far North, First Nations, canoes- shall I go on? | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 4:22:31 PM | | This thread was started as few days ago as a fun, tongue in cheek thread that the majority of posters realized whether they are Canadian or American. Some people just don't want to get it. There are those who simply lack humour and wanted the thread to become something that could or should be policed by inflicting acidic commentary into a thread where people just wanted to have a bit of fun. How sad that we are now have the fun police. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 4:33:31 PM | Sorry Tink, I for one don't find this type of humour funny. Maybe it is a in joke that I don't get as a Canadian. Probably a lot of it has to do with the fact that some people like Horton's so they think it is funny, but those who don't like Horton's aren't amused.
Please folks enjoy yourselves, but let us enjoy ourselves too. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 4:50:52 PM | To joanne1357, re messages 80 and 81, I agree that Tims is better than Starbucks, but for a different reason. I find Starbucks coffee, even their decaff, way too strong.
Re your approval of TryAgan's idea of a fun date, I can vouch for his character. Though we have never met face to face, we did chat for a while, and he has never been anything but a gentleman. Even so, I wouldn't go for a ride in the canoe with him, simply because I don't feel safe in a canoe, lol. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 6:07:50 PM | Moriama - we get your point - you don't like Timmies. You don't have to keep repeating it like a mantra. From what I've read on these forums, there isn't much you DO like.
To hell with reading these negative posts - I'm off to Timmies for some of those Timbits. I think I'll have some iced coffee today, though, as it's sweltering out there. I'd better sneak out the door or everyone else will want me to bring them back some. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 6:14:00 PM | "From what I've read on these forums, there isn't much you DO like. "
Wrong. I have already said I enjoy the ambiance of a different type of coffee shop.
The lesson here might be that all the people who like the coffee at Horton's like weaker coffee, while those who go to other types of places prefer stronger coffee. Plus some people like crowded places while others don't.
To get almost patriotic about Horton's and insulted when others don't feel the same way seems like a waste of energy. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 7:03:58 PM | Here. here, Moraima. I'm with you. The patriotic vitriol around TH is amusing in and of itself. I'm a proud Canadian because of who and what we represent in the world and how we express ourselves artistically and culturally, albeit imperfectly. I love American imports as much as the next Canuck. I would always rather, however, that my dollars spent stay in my community, supporting local entrepreneurship and ingenuity (unless it's something like giving to the Red Cross or something).
Think global, shop local!
Enjoy your Tim Bits everyone. No one says their not delicious. | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 7:05:10 PM | | Oops! ...they're not delicious. Don't ya hate it when you see the mistake just as you hit send! | |
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| Tim Hortons / POF Alliance
Posted: 8/1/2009 8:35:06 PM | | Chill out Moraima and Cheeky. Go and get a Tim's Ice Capp and Enjoy. You two are throwing cold water on those of us who want to have fun and enjoy what it means to be Canadian. If you don't appreciate the humour, maybe better to stay out. The rest of us are having fun. | |
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