# Tim Horton's Appreciation Thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [January 14, 2003, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486 "2003-01-14T07:44:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zweisamkeit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zweisamkeit/32/4360_2.png) [@zweisamkeit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zweisamkeit)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/21 "2003-01-15T03:07:44Z")
I love Tim Horton’s. There’s one about 500 feet down the closest main street, I can walk there in less than five minutes. I don’t care much for the bagels, but the apple fritters are to die for, and I love their coffee, and the frozen cappuccinos in the summer are really good, especially since we don’t have A/C at home. I can’t ever buy a box of TimBits, because I’d have the whole box before noon. ---
**Author:** ![Weary](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/aeb1de/32.png) [@Weary](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Weary)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/22 "2003-01-15T03:15:11Z")
Stop it all of you! I’m going to have to get dressed in a minute and walk across the street! Mmmmm…donuts! Double double! ---
**Author:** ![plain\_jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@plain\_jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/plain_jane)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/23 "2003-01-15T04:00:16Z")
Ice-caps! Ice-caps! Man, I used to fantasize about those damned things this past summer… I used to run to the nearest Horton’s on my lunch break and buy one every day. And then buy another on my way home. I felt like an addict because I just couldn’t help myself. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/24 "2003-01-15T04:07:53Z")
Not a huge coffee fan, but I’ve always liked Tim’s. Good quality, good value, good place to study cuz they’re open late, all over the friggin’ place, and someone from work is always going there on a coffee run. ---
**Author:** ![the\_Lady](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bb73d2/32.png) [@the\_Lady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/the_Lady)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/25 "2003-01-15T04:15:54Z")
Ah, Tim’s. I lived in small-town Nova Scotia for four years. Population of 6,000 people. Two full-sized Tim’s and a cart in the Shopper’s Drug Mart. Not that I’m complaining, of course. I wish they were as prolific out here…there’s only 3 in downtown Calgary (I think) and none close enough for me to get the prerequisite morning coffee… ---
**Author:** ![Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patricinus_Scriblerus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 5:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/26 "2003-01-15T05:06:39Z")
I am still looking for a cite for this but i thought I would throw it out here anyway but apparently there are mot Tim Hortons locations in Canada then there are McDonalds. ---
**Author:** ![Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f07891/32.png) [@Patricinus\_Scriblerus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patricinus_Scriblerus)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/27 "2003-01-15T05:14:16Z")
Found it. Accoring to the Mcdonalds site there are about 1200 locations in Canada !! ![MCDONALDS](http://www.mcdonalds.ca/en/aboutus/index.asp) and Tims page says that they have 2000 (120 in the USA) That’s a lot of coffee!! :eek: [Pass me them Timbits!!!](http://www.timhortons.com/english/english.html) ---
**Author:** ![kung\_fu\_lola](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/f4b2a3/32.png) [@kung\_fu\_lola](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kung_fu_lola)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 6:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/28 "2003-01-15T06:00:24Z")
I **LOVE** TIM HORTON’S! Mostly because they just gave me a job. And also, their tea. ---
**Author:** ![Hrdygrdymn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/77aa72/32.png) [@Hrdygrdymn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hrdygrdymn)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 6:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/29 "2003-01-15T06:39:48Z")
Things I like about Hortons: unpretentious doesn’t cost $5 for a frickin coffee generally friendly staff But whatever happened to the orange twist donut? ---
**Author:** ![ElwoodCuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/edb3f5/32.png) [@ElwoodCuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElwoodCuse)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 6:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/30 "2003-01-15T06:44:32Z")
I don’t think Rochester has Tim’s. Buffalo does, but for some reason the donuts (at least at the Bailey Ave one) always taste stale, and I’ve been there at varying times of the day and night, so I don’t think I’ve just gotten a bad batch. I love their maple frosted and maple cream donuts. I think Krispy Kreme has maple frosting too, but it’s nowhere near as good. And how about the sandwiches? To me, Krispy Kreme loses points because they only do one thing well (original glazed), but I really like Tim’s fresh cold-cut sandwiches. ---
**Author:** ![cowgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8c91f0/32.png) [@cowgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cowgirl)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/31 "2003-01-15T15:36:03Z")
mmm … tim’s … I keep trying to stay away, you know, fatty food and so on, but they keep luring me back. First came the bagels. Then the strawberry tarts. It’s hopeless to fight it. But once, in that big store by the 401 in Oakville, Ont (I think it’s a ‘test’ store or something, it’s huge) I had the most divine thing: picture a jelly donut, dusted with cocoa and filled with CHOCOLATE MOUSSE. wow! I have never seen one since. Perhaps they were too good to live. (Speaking of divine donuts, there’s another wholly inferior donut chain which shall remain nameless, but which has in some stores a ‘Chocolate Peanut’ donut - chocolate sprinkles with _peanut butter_ frosting. Mmm.) (I only go in there because within three blocks of my house there are FOUR stores from that chain, and the nearest Tims is a few miles away. The injustice! O Tim, why have you forsaken me?) But don’t doubt my loyalty. I go into Tims whenever I can. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 3:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/32 "2003-01-15T15:38:28Z")
Gah. Send me some. PLEASE. ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/33 "2003-01-15T16:01:33Z")
MMMMMMMMMMMMMM Timmy Ho’s … I grew up in the Soo… a town of about 80,000 and it is sad to know that they have 10 or so Timmy’s and there arent as many per capita here in Ottawa. BUT there is one right down the street from my house and one near where I work so I shouldn’t complain too much. Tim Horton’s I LOVE your coffee. Black. Double cupped (it’s HOT - and we aren’t allowed to sure for millions here for spilling coffee on ourselves). However, unlike the majority of you, 14 years ago when I was living at home with my single parent mom and she was struggling to make ends meet, I was a Little Brother (big Brothers and Sisters - GOOD PEOPLE). Anyway, through that organization, I was selected to go to a Tim Horton’s summer camp in Nova Scotia, a flight across the country. It to this day ranks up there as one of the best experiences of my life. Two weeks where the people from Tim Hortons made me and countless others feel like the luckiest children in the world. My hat is off to you Tim Horton’s. Not only do you provide me with my morning lifeblood, you gave a down and out kid like myself a memory to last a lifetime. I will never ever be able to repay that debt, but I will encourage everyone out there to support them on Camp Day. Buy a cup, volunteer, donate. Trust me, it is worth every penny when it comes to the smiles that you can put on the faces of kids that didn’t even know that such generosity existed. Thanks 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![CuriousCanuck](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d2c977/32.png) [@CuriousCanuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CuriousCanuck)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/34 "2003-01-15T16:03:19Z")
Oh, and I forgot to mention that their chili is the perfect remedy for being outside in Canada in January. Mmmmm. ---
**Author:** ![Harli](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c0e974/32.png) [@Harli](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harli)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/35 "2003-01-15T16:29:03Z")
You wanna talk per capita? Heheheh > [@](#): > > In 1997, there were 70 stores in Hamilton-Wentworth area alone. This works out to one store for every 7,081 people, which confirms the statements that Hamilton truly is the capital of coffee and doughnut stores. That is the most recent information I could find, which was on [this site](http://collections.ic.gc.ca/wentworth/timhorto.htm). I know that the number of Tim’s in Hamilton has grown in 6 years…and you wonder why I’m a coffee addict 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RickJay](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/bb73d2/32.png) [@RickJay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RickJay)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/36 "2003-01-15T16:36:43Z")
Ironically, Tim’s is now owned by an American company, Wendy’s. But their coffee’s still better. I never drank any sort of coffee except Timmy’s until once, while waiting to see a concert, I ducked into a Starbucks and asked for a regular. I couldn’t believe how bad it tasted; it was as if they’d poured my coffee out of a dirty ashtray. Coffee Time and Country Style just don’t compare, either. Tim Horton’s simply uses the best coffee beans. ---
**Author:** ![Anonymous\_Coward](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/94ad74/32.png) [@Anonymous\_Coward](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anonymous_Coward)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/37 "2003-01-15T18:28:08Z")
I had a friend who worked in a Tim’s for 2 years. He now hates coffee and refers to it as “Satan’s Milk” Myself, happiness can be bought for $1.29. Large with 2 creams if anyone is bringing one back for me. Also I remember those Chocolate Mousse donuts… mmm… At the Tim’s down the street they also had Chocolate Mousse filled muffins with large chocolate chips and big sugar crystals on top. Never saw those again… ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/38 "2003-01-15T19:39:55Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by ElwoodCuse \* > \*\*I don’t think Rochester has Tim’s. Buffalo does, but for some reason the donuts (at least at the Bailey Ave one) always taste stale, and I’ve been there at varying times of the day and night, so I don’t think I’ve just gotten a bad batch. \*\* Maybe their staff is lax…it happens in the franchise system. I’ve never had a problem at the Transit Road branch, for example. Then there’s the Niagara Falls branch, which is my downfall–close enough to Canada that the donuts are shot over, every morning around 4:30, by bazooka. Sometimes I’m awoken by the sounds of donuts sailing overhead. Anyway, that’s the excuse I’m giving for showing up there for breakfast when I’ve woken up too early in the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/39 "2003-01-15T21:01:50Z")
The first (and only) time I’ve been in a Tim Horton’s was in Columbus Ohio, in a shared building with a Wendy’s. I don’t know if they’re doing that arrangement elsewhere but I think this is Wendy’s way of bringing them to some parts of the States. I don’t drink coffee, but the soup and hot chocolate was nice on a cold day. And the MUGS! I loved them, and actually bought a set of 4 for everyday use. No one here in New England knows who Tim Horton is, but the mugs are one of the classic shapes. A friend in Montreal called it “Teeeem Ort’n”, you just have to try it with a strong French-Canadian accent. ---
**Author:** ![skot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@skot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/skot)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486/40 "2003-01-15T21:50:40Z")
Best damn coffee for your money…and sour cream donuts…mmmmmmmmmm! Come to think of it, **eunoia** , if the chiro fixes my back tonight, tomorrow morning we celebrate with some Tim’s coffee and Timbits on me! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tim-hortons-appreciation-thread/148486.md?page=3)