So, we got this new radio which I can put upstairs on top of the armoire with the antennae in the window, and behold! I get the good classical music station which serves Syracuse, Utica and up on the line, Watertown. Now my weather reports include '...and in Kingston, Ontario it is sunny and 25 degrees celsius...'.
Frequent readers here will notice that 90 percent of my comments are from deranged but usually harmless Canadians. And just as McDonalds and Kentuckey fried chicken are all over the world, there are some Tim Hortons restaurants around Buffalo. But get this: Tim Hortons now sells coffee at our grocery store! Is there a plot afoot? Are Canadians out to dominate the world?
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Oh no. We're much too laid back to dominate.
And so it begins: Canadian World Domination. Cue impressive music.
We'll bring manners and niceness to the world.
And beaver tails.
And apologies where none are required.. such as:
Candian 1: "OUCH"
Canadian 2: "Oh I stepped on your foot, I'm very sorry"
Canadian 1: "Oh thats okay, I'm fine. I'm sorry I was in your way"
Whoops, that last one was from me, Gorthos.
And then there is the whole world domination by Campbells or MacLeods secret plot type thing.
(cruachan!)
Oh I hope they rule the world. Albeit in their wonderfully-mannered, "oot and aboot" sort of way. Bring on Tim Hortons coffee!
Yeah, those Canadians who hang out here are really frightening...
I go to Timmies in Maine all the time. Oddly, there is no XL size coffee in the states but there is XS, unknown to Canada. The cup sizes are the same.
I hear they are in Michigan too. Is the place any good? What's the coffee like?
I went to the one in Flint, Michigan once, just because it was in Flint, Michigan. I don't drink coffee, but Tim's is the only coffee place I can go into without gagging.
Tim Hortons (look him up on Wikipedia) sells what in coffee circles is defined as "low grade/quality" coffee. One must drink it as a "double double" as in doule cream double sugar, to kill the taste of it. It is, frankly, crap.
It also contains more caffeine than more heavily roasted brands from Starbucks (aaaaah aaaaah..) or Coffee and Company as the darker a roast, usually, the more of the big C has been roasted out.
Timmys as it is affectionately known, is brewed with the early morning hockey parent who is so bleary eyed that they would drink sweetened caffeinated horse pee if one told them it was "all Canadian and defined you as such".
Gorthos, \
Coffee Snob
Who is about to brew some terribly, terribly expensive, Starbucks Black Apron special edition Sumatran beans from. w00t.
Well, Gorthos, I shan't buy any then. I noticed a Tim's in an old building a block or two from your office, but there are others. In Ithaca, we have awesome roasters/coffee shops: Collegetown Bagels/Ithaca Bakery, Ithaca Coffee Co and Gimme! which just expoted a branch to NY city. Starbucks opened its first downtown a year ago, then another adjacent to the Cornell campus. I think they have a good product and bathrooms, BUT when Wall St Journel claims that local coffee shops do better business with Starbucks around, I am not buying it. Seems unlikly. I will buy local and organic coffees first.
I am sad when somebody takes excellent beans and makes a weak cup--I am too used to my own strong brew or espresso.
Our illustrious prime minister likes to brag that he and his workingclass hockey parent fan base are Timmy's drinkers and the elitist liberals (their words) are the snooty starbucks types..
Gorthos
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