Any other Canadian Dopers seen the new poppy quarters yet? Available at Tim Hortons, of all places.
I got one back in my change today and couldn’t stop playing with it. The first ever colored circulation coin, they say. But the color seems to be coming off on mine already, and these just came out this week! I could be mistaken, though - it’s hard to tell exactly how they colored it and maybe it’s supposed to look a bit uneven.
Still, it’s pretty.
I’m getting more coffee tomorrow, because I want another one. Yeah, I could probably just walk up with a couple of bucks and ask for change, but then I wouldn’t get my coffee, would I?
The colour comes off if you scratch it with so much as a fingernail – at least, off the surface, as the little pits retain some colour that looks pale red if you look at it from a slightly different angle.
Very cool, though. The first such circulation coin in the world.
For those of us Canucks outside the country without access to a Tim Hortons, I guess our best hope is that the poppy quarters will be showing up any minute on eBay…
I am writing to my family and telling them to send me my tins of various Tim’s coffees, a poppy quarter or two, a family pack of Timbits and a bunch of maple pecan danishes. ~sigh~ alright. Not the Timbits or danishes. If only we could get overnight delivery from NB Canada to Seattle WA… “Come on, folks, let’s get those Timbits out there! There’s a hungry Canadian in the Cascades! Go Go GO!”
~deep sigh~
Sorry. Where people, imitating the TV commercial, go up to the border and try to prove they’re Canadian by correctly pronouncing rrrrrrrrrrrroll up the rrrrrrrrrrim.
I went to Timmy’s after work on Friday and they had none… given them all out that morning. Unless I get lucky on the weekend, it looks like I"ll have to wait till Monday…
LOL oh gosh… I’d never do that at any border! Writing it… it’s the first time I’ve even thought of it for about a year. It made me a little nostalgic. I’ve never even tried saying it to my husband. I should, though, once, just to see his reaction… nah. It’s not funny when there’s no way for him to really “get” it. What could I get out of it? A weak laugh from him, and a faint “oh, haha, I get it now” as he turns away with one eyebrow raised and thinking he married a loon. (start of pun not intended).
I’ll certainly bet they’re tired of it, though… I’ve never understood why people think imitating a commercial is very funny, especially for people who are busy working and they must hear it a hundred times a day. Ugh.
