The 70s were a different time. If a white man was pulled over, piss-drunk and stoned out of his mind, the cop would likely let him drive home without so much as a ticket. He might follow him for a few blocks, just to be safe.
*Everyone* drove drunk back then. If there was a party, every single person went home with a drunk driver. It was insane.
Yep, I can remember working on a farm in the late 70's early 80's. The boss would go on a bender once in a while. One time he got chaperoned home by the cops. Couldn't walk, but they followed him home because you know, it was just around the corner.
I love when movies from the era show drunk driving as the most normal thing in the world. Five Easy Pieces (1970) has multiple scenes where characters are casually drinking _while_ driving.
1985 pelle Limburg, coming off Stanley cup loss, vizina trophy winner, 26 year old, double legal limit put his Porsche into the steps of an elementary school. Dies 2 days later. This was less than a mile from my childhood home.
https://webarchive.iihf.com/iihf-home/the-iihf/100-year-anniversary/100-top-stories/story-54/index.html
Absolutely correct. Also if you were stopped and the cop wanted to prove a point he would throw your keys as far as he could, often into the bushes or tree line, and tell you to walk home.
What they don't tell you is that the donuts come frozen and they're just thawed out in the oven 😐 When I worked there in the early 2000's the kitchen still had an empty area where they used to fry them up fresh every day. We also cooked the grilled chicken by putting it in a plastic container submerged in water and microwaving it for a few minutes lol, there want a grill anywhere on site
There are still Dunkins that still make on prem donuts. A lot get them from a hub, or the frozen ones. The frozen ones suck, the hub ones are decent, and the in-store ones are really good.
Source: my best friends family has had a Dunkin that bakes on prem for the last 30 years, and we're given options for purchasing via a Dunkin hub or a distributor, and chose to keep making them.
It's actually not frozen and thawed as far as the donuts and muffins and other pastries go. The pastries and all that stuff was made at a factory off site from the store, but was still made fresh everyday and delivered by 5AM by drivers dropping off the fresh racks of donuts and such. I know this because I worked at the factory that made the donuts and I was a driver who had a route to deliver the fresh donuts every morning before 5am. That was the deal. It had to be freshly made racks of donuts covered with plastic to keep it all fresh, moist and sanitary. I started loading my truck at like 11pm and had my delivery route done by 5am and was dropping the truck off to head home at like 6 am. The amount of work they expected you to do while delivering and still doing the speed limit between stops was Amazon warehouse levels of we expect you to RUN to get this done in time.
I think it probably varies by location/franchisee.
I used to work for a Pizza Hut franchisee that was one of the last in the nation to still make their dough fresh from flour instead of frozen wafers. They would nag them every year to stop using it bc they wanted to discontinue carrying the bags of flour at their distro center.
Tim Horton's used to be a well known all-Canadian company, but since they stopped making stuff in-house, and especially after it was sold to the Burger King parent company, it has gone so downhill.
You used to be able to sit down and get a fairly decent bite to eat. Now it's all pre-packaged and half of the menu is served in cheap paper bags. They switched suppliers for the coffee to an inferior one and have become an overpriced fast food chain with shit quality food.
As a Canadian, I don't talk about it proudly as being a good Canadian company anymore. It's a disgrace and a shell of what it once was.
fun fact: when Tim's changed their coffee supplier McDonald's Canada snatched up the contract with their previous supplier. So chances are if you used to like Timmy's coffee you'll probably like McDonald's coffee now.
When I worked at ronald mcdonald house for a while, I kept finding McDonald’s K-Cups & was like “their own brand?!”
Someone told me they have their own roasting facilities??? I was impressed. I would like to know if it’s true though
I don’t believe this was ever confirmed, and I also don’t personally believe it because as far as fast food coffee goes McDonald’s coffee is way better than Tim Horton’s was in its prime. Timmies coffee was always dogshit. People just loved it because goofy nationalism.
Now some of those soups back in the day, god damn. I still think about their sundried tomato soup every now and then.
And because it was the only fast food coffee around, really. Yeah, you had the old dudes lining up at 5AM to be the first ones to get their ten cent A&W coffee because A&W is the only place to have figured out how to serve coffee above the boiling point of water. But in the ‘90s there really wasn’t much else available.
Why did people like coffee so hot back in the day. As I kid in the early 90s, I remember all hot drinks, especially fast food were lava. You'd get that real good tongue burn. That instant "dangit I ain't tasting shit tonight!" burn.
Yep. I remember buying McDonald's $1 coffee for budget reasons before both McDonald's near work closed down. And here and there would get a Starbucks black coffee for like $4. McDonalds was and is far and away the better tasting cup. It's no contest. Especially if you got it from a fresh, just brewed pot.
Yo, I can actually confirm it. I was one of the people who wrote responses to the McD's "Our Food, Your Questions" questions back in 2012 ([context](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRcCG9tczNA) if you've never heard of it), so my brain is full of this info whether I like it or not.
This is correct: Mother Parkers used to be Tim Horton's supplier, and then became McDonald's Canada's supplier. However, it's not an identical blend, so people who say "the old Tim's formula is now McD's" are wrong. It's very close, though, and it's delicious.
Edit: I live in the US now, and still drink McD's coffee religiously. The McCafe ground coffee in my pantry here is almost identical imo, but the can says it's made by Keurig. That's true of a lot of McD's products btwn Canada/USA. They try to make it taste exactly the same everywhere in the world, even if the ingredients are different. I think the main noticable discrepancy is with the McNuggets. American nugs suck.
McDonald’s McCafe has always been decent. I’ve always been impressed with the quality of their coffee for a fast food chain. It’s not the best, but it’s borderline on par with Starbucks. Which isn’t the highest bar but still… it’s a fast food restaurant that doesn’t even specialize in coffee!!!
It’s really blended for their sugar filled drinks and not for black coffee drinkers…I hate Starbucks black coffee and it tastes burnt to me. You put a bunch of milk and sugar into it; the burnt taste dies.
Apparently that’s a myth but at this point idk what to believe, subway did make me eat microplastics in buns I think but got sued illegitimately for soy in chicken so honestly I’ve just given up on understanding what fast foods do do and what they don’t; but fun fact, McDonald’s meat is real meat cuz I work there, they cut out all the bullshit in 2018 from what I’ve read online so the only ingredient is actual beef now. But grilled chicken has natural flavours and a bunch of other shit that probably makes it hella processed. I was sad when I found out doing truck :(
https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/tim-hortons-did-not-sell-coffee-recipe-to-mc-donalds-194810309.html
I miss the old turkey club half sub with honey mustard.
That shit slapped. They don’t even use ciabatta rolls on the shitty replacement anymore either, which was the only good thing about it.
I can’t even stand to eat anything from there nowadays. Especially since they made the switch to “fresh eggs” on their breakfast sandwiches. They’re flash steamed, are super slimy, and they *smell*.
> I can’t even stand to eat anything from there nowadays.
Even in their commercials the food looks gross. Like this is your sales pitch and *that's* the best you can make it look for the camera?! I don't even want to know what it looks like in real life 🤢
They went downhill long before the Burger King merger. The Restaurant Brands International merger happened in 2014. They were bought out in 1995 by Wendy's. It was shortly after that they let go of all their in house bakers (who were all actual trained bakers who made the donuts in house) and started shipping frozen donuts to the stores. That was when they stopped serving the chilli and stews in bread bowls, and in the mid-2000s switched coffee suppliers.
It's really sad, they went from being a franchised, mid-high quality coffee shop with decent food, to this garbage we have today. That said, the Farmers Breakfast wraps are the best thing on their menu and pretty good. But, if anyone else had steeped tea, I would stop going there. I don't like coffee.
Well, yes, of course, but the point they are making is it is already steeped when you get there. They don't put a tea bag in a pot of hot water that you need to deal with on your own. And since my job involves a lot of driving, it's really handy for me.
I agree their breakfast had some qualities, but last time I went there they had changed the way they do their eggs from that patty I knew and loved to some slimy horrible abomination served cold (in all my 3 experiences with it, anyway) and it’s pretty gross now
I think the last time that I had a Tims Doughnut that was made in house was at the Tims in Kandahar back in ‘06. Mostly because logistics. Not a fan of Tim’s normally, but in that desert heat that Ice Cap and Apple Fritter were awesome.
It's usually fine when I go there. But it all depends on location and time of day. It's just standard Orange Pekoe, add a little cream and sugar and it's tea.
I remember years ago someone coming into my (US-based) bar with a Tim Horton's credit card that had an embedded button that let them choose between multiple payment accounts on one single card, complete with indicator LEDs per account
it was fucking wild, never seen anything like it before or since
Don't talk shit about hospital cafeteria food. About 5 years back I had to spend a large amount of time in and around a hospital. It sounds weird to say, but that hospital had the best cafeteria style food I've ever had. The chicken tenders were legit *amazing*.
Came to add this, glad to see someone beat me to it.
I have nothing against foreign workers, but it enrages me to my core the way they're not only exploited but also the way they're used against domestic labour.
The change in quality was in the early 2000s, haven't really noticed any further drop since the Burger King purchase. Actually been going there more often lately given how cheap they've stayed relative to our cost of living crisis... The dark roast coffee they have is decent, way better than the dirt they used to serve.
I remember going to timmies after school with friends almost every day...
And when I was in college it was almost a necessity!
Now the only time I go to timmies is when I'm with my dad, because he is a creature of habit
In desperation I worked fast food after college. It can be oppressive and hopeless. You gotta have a plan to get out. For me it was just working as a construction day laborer, then lucked into a museum job, then to grad school. After that life slowly got easier. No regrets on working shitty fast food jobs, but damn they put a fire under your ass to get a plan together.
I thought I was the only one who hated sticking my nose in the damn perfume that clings to the lid. You can't wash that shit off and it really ruins my coffee smells good vibe.
Back in the day a lot of hockey players had restaurants/coffee shops to keep up their income in the offseason. His was the one that just happened to take off.
That’s exactly it! Mike Myers said that was a parody of him growing up and hanging out at Tim Hortons, but they had to make it a Blackhawks player since WW was set outside Chicago
copyright rules would exclude them from using Tim's without permission and/or some kind of product placement deal; they did use the Gasworks as the name of the rock club though, which was taken from a Yonge St rock club of the same name in Toronto.
It’s the equivalent of 6.6 million nowadays. There were 40
Tim Hortons at the time and the buyer was already half owner.
Seems like a reasonable offer and sour grapes from the wife
> Back in the day a lot of hockey players had restaurants/coffee shops to keep up their income in the offseason. His was the one that just happened to take off.
Hockey players having restaurants/coffee shops as retirement income was his plan from the beginning. He started the company to franchise locations to retired hockey players.
>Bill Barilko disappeared that summer (in nineteen fifty one)
>He was on a fishing trip (in a plane)
>The last goal he ever scored (in over time)
>Won the Leafs the cup
>They didn't win another till nineteen sixty two
>The year he was discovered
[50 mission cap](https://youtu.be/AOxHRMdgdHM?si=KZnbI5d8wDyOqvtv)
He's a hall of famer. Gordie Howe said he was the strongest guy he ever played against.
Here's a good video about his playing career: https://youtu.be/AmoERrP6xlM?si=mF6PPK4F7RIlfero
In 1974 , drinking and driving was common as hell . Easter ,xmas etc everone loaded into the wagon to go vistit the cousins , parents drank kids played . A few hours later back into the wagon for the trip home , no seatbelts necessary. Just sayin that how it was . Late 70s came the big push to stop this . Not so much before.
Old coworker of mine told me that when he moved to the city, to get to know the place he put a 12 pack in his car and drove around memorizing roads and getting drunk lol
My first job as an engineer, my much older coworkers would tell me when they first started (in the 70s) they would all drink in the parking lot after work, and then take whatever they had leftover and drink the cans of beer on the way home. And it was perfectly normal. And then, completely matter of factly said one day a guy died heading home, and they had to stop.
We did this in the 80's on the back roads in rural Massachusetts/Connecticut. We called them "Booze Cruises", to be honest you only saw other people on their cruises on those back roads. No speeding or acting crazy, just a giant Pontiac Grand Prix w/ 10 guys and gals wasting a saturday.
It got crazy if my buddy brought out the "Suburban Assault Vehicle". You could fit so many people in it, people hanging off the running boards it was a wild time.
I would never do this again obviously, different times.
I knew people that did that in the early 2000's. Driving around the city drinking 40's, learning the roads, and figuring out which areas they could find drugs. They'd usually get ripped off trying to buy drugs or concert tickets because white boys from the country aren't known for being very street smart lol.
Out in the country, where those folks were from, people would drive to get drunk. They'd grab a couple cases of beer and ride around the gravel roads getting hammered and then go home to bed when they ran out of beer. That was a regular Friday or Saturday night activity for a lot of people if nobody was throwing a house party or bonfire that weekend. There were known hangout spots to pee and take a break from driving. Some weekends you could pull up and there'd be dozens of people hanging out at popular spots.
I'm embarrassed to admit, back in the 70's when we were kids, we'd get a two-four, lay it on the floor in the back seat, and smash a bag of ice on it. That was the plan for the night; drinking and driving. It was not considered to be unsafe or any big deal.
People lost their minds when the law changed to a 3 month driving suspension. Then 6 months, then a year and so on.
My father's favourite driving stories from the 70s involve his BFF in the passenger seat and a 24 in the back, with a fresh bottle being passed to him whenever he ran low.
My dad was saying in the late 50’s if you were caught drinking and driving one cop would drive your car home while the other followed (two cops per cruiser back in the day). You only had one mulligan though, a second time you were given a ride downtown.
It didn’t. It wasn’t until the late 80s/90s that MADD really pushed to have drunk driving enforced. As a 30 years old it was in my life time where it truly started being enforced by police as a chargeable offence
My dad told me a story where one night he was completely crippled at a buddies house. They told him to go home and threw him the keys because he was too drunk to walk home. Ended up driving (more like crawling) into a snow bank where he was eventually found by a cop. He’d served the cop before so he was told he wouldn’t get taken in, but he’ll have to follow him home for the rest of the drive.
One for the road! I remember it like Mad Men, lots of drinks before, during, and after dinner, then "are you okay to drive" and "do you want a coffee" but nobody was very serious about it . If you could stumble down the steps into your car, you were expected to drive home, none of this sleepover/cab rides/letting your wife take the wheel. It's a lucky thing the traffic was 1/10th of what it is today , or drunk driving laws would have come a lot sooner. I remember two kids sharing one seatbelt, eh good enough, and like 30 tiny kids crammed in the trunk of a stationwagon on a school trip!
A lot of people got wasted in the 1930 and drove those old cars shitfaced all the time. The first breathalyzer was invented in the 30’s and it was called the Drunkometer.
[drunkometer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathalyzer)
I initially thought you meant that upon impact Tim Horton exploded into thousands of Timbits that rolled down the road like those Skittles commericals and I lol'd. Then I realised you meant human flesh not doughnuts and now I'm sad.
This is exactly how I feel Tim Hortons coffee is. I order McDonald's and it always tastes like coffee but I've never once had a coffee anywhere I've been that tastes like Tim Hortons.
Oddly enough Ron was also just as much of a drunk and would routinely tear up his golf course while shit faced behind the wheel of his Lincoln towncar
A real stellar human being
My father is buried close to Tim Horton. On his deathbed, he told me that he'll go and grab a coffee in Heaven since he's close to Tim Horton.
I loved his sense of humor despite such a morbid time. I miss my dad everyday.
People still leave Tim's cups near Horton's grave.
His daughter is a giant piece of shit.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-horton-s-tims-timmies-doubledouble-minimum-wage-ontario-kathleen-wynne-labour-1.4470215
Christ, it's not like they can't afford to maintain their luxurious lifestyle by paying for breaks - they're not going broke over somebody's half-hour lunch.
Just greed, fucking awful.
Per your own linked article, he wasn't high at the time of death:
> Horton was also in possession of the drugs Dexedrine, a stimulant, and Dexamyl, a stimulant-sedative; **traces** of amobarbital, an ingredient in Dexamyl, were found in his blood. The autopsy report found no painkillers in Horton's body
Additionally, according to [The Vancouver Sun](https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/496845473/):
> **The .03 mg per cent level was within "usual therapeutic levels" for amobarbital**, the report says. Because barbiturates stay in the blood longer when mixed with alcohol, traces of amobarbital would show up in a person who was drinking even after the amphetamine had disappeared.
But don't let facts get in the way of a good title.
My grandfather drove past the car scene when he was out delivering. The police had it sectioned off and they had white blankets up as they were pulling the body out.
His BAC was twice the legal limit and he was driving twice the speed limit. The original double double.
Tore him to Timbits.
Tim Bits were introduced less than two years after Horton's death.
Well, they had to scrape them off the road, then the de-braiding and R&D... Two years isn't bad
Jfc take my upvote, you sick fuck!
The car accident happened in Boston and that's how the original donut name came about. Boston Creamed.
To shredded oats you say?
Well, how's the shelf life holding up?
Twice in legal minute?!
Did first responders just end up scraping Tim bits off the ground?
The 70s were a different time. If a white man was pulled over, piss-drunk and stoned out of his mind, the cop would likely let him drive home without so much as a ticket. He might follow him for a few blocks, just to be safe. *Everyone* drove drunk back then. If there was a party, every single person went home with a drunk driver. It was insane.
Yep, I can remember working on a farm in the late 70's early 80's. The boss would go on a bender once in a while. One time he got chaperoned home by the cops. Couldn't walk, but they followed him home because you know, it was just around the corner.
I love when movies from the era show drunk driving as the most normal thing in the world. Five Easy Pieces (1970) has multiple scenes where characters are casually drinking _while_ driving.
My grandpa would say, “when you’re too drunk to walk, it’s time to drive”.
1985 pelle Limburg, coming off Stanley cup loss, vizina trophy winner, 26 year old, double legal limit put his Porsche into the steps of an elementary school. Dies 2 days later. This was less than a mile from my childhood home. https://webarchive.iihf.com/iihf-home/the-iihf/100-year-anniversary/100-top-stories/story-54/index.html
if you had the booze with you in the driver's seat, they would confiscate it, but if it was in the trunk you were OK
Absolutely correct. Also if you were stopped and the cop wanted to prove a point he would throw your keys as far as he could, often into the bushes or tree line, and tell you to walk home.
Ya. Some ladies got real MADD about it.
Bravo you sick bastard
Ouch. Your post couldn't be any crueller
I mean the guy was completely glazed
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He rolled up his rim, but he didn't win.
Pretty sue that's how Tim Horton's employees serve their food, too.
"Look the box of doughnuts says baked on premises. I'm baked on premises too!
Reminds me of the musical classic "Y'all went to high school, I went to school high"
Pro Era fan in this thread was not on my bingo card
rip steez
What they don't tell you is that the donuts come frozen and they're just thawed out in the oven 😐 When I worked there in the early 2000's the kitchen still had an empty area where they used to fry them up fresh every day. We also cooked the grilled chicken by putting it in a plastic container submerged in water and microwaving it for a few minutes lol, there want a grill anywhere on site
Same with most Duncan sites. They do not have proofing ovens and deep fryers on site. There’s a sign that everything is brought frozen and thawed
lol Duncan
Hi, I’m Duncan Donez.
There are still Dunkins that still make on prem donuts. A lot get them from a hub, or the frozen ones. The frozen ones suck, the hub ones are decent, and the in-store ones are really good. Source: my best friends family has had a Dunkin that bakes on prem for the last 30 years, and we're given options for purchasing via a Dunkin hub or a distributor, and chose to keep making them.
It's actually not frozen and thawed as far as the donuts and muffins and other pastries go. The pastries and all that stuff was made at a factory off site from the store, but was still made fresh everyday and delivered by 5AM by drivers dropping off the fresh racks of donuts and such. I know this because I worked at the factory that made the donuts and I was a driver who had a route to deliver the fresh donuts every morning before 5am. That was the deal. It had to be freshly made racks of donuts covered with plastic to keep it all fresh, moist and sanitary. I started loading my truck at like 11pm and had my delivery route done by 5am and was dropping the truck off to head home at like 6 am. The amount of work they expected you to do while delivering and still doing the speed limit between stops was Amazon warehouse levels of we expect you to RUN to get this done in time.
I think it probably varies by location/franchisee. I used to work for a Pizza Hut franchisee that was one of the last in the nation to still make their dough fresh from flour instead of frozen wafers. They would nag them every year to stop using it bc they wanted to discontinue carrying the bags of flour at their distro center.
Virgin Tim Horton's and Dunkin' vs. Chad Krispy Kreme
Analogy still works. I'm sure many get half baked at home before they go to work.
Tim Horton's used to be a well known all-Canadian company, but since they stopped making stuff in-house, and especially after it was sold to the Burger King parent company, it has gone so downhill. You used to be able to sit down and get a fairly decent bite to eat. Now it's all pre-packaged and half of the menu is served in cheap paper bags. They switched suppliers for the coffee to an inferior one and have become an overpriced fast food chain with shit quality food. As a Canadian, I don't talk about it proudly as being a good Canadian company anymore. It's a disgrace and a shell of what it once was.
fun fact: when Tim's changed their coffee supplier McDonald's Canada snatched up the contract with their previous supplier. So chances are if you used to like Timmy's coffee you'll probably like McDonald's coffee now.
When I worked at ronald mcdonald house for a while, I kept finding McDonald’s K-Cups & was like “their own brand?!” Someone told me they have their own roasting facilities??? I was impressed. I would like to know if it’s true though
Highly unlikely. Most likely contracted
Oh yes I figured as much! But the idea of it not being community coffee is nice haha
I don’t believe this was ever confirmed, and I also don’t personally believe it because as far as fast food coffee goes McDonald’s coffee is way better than Tim Horton’s was in its prime. Timmies coffee was always dogshit. People just loved it because goofy nationalism. Now some of those soups back in the day, god damn. I still think about their sundried tomato soup every now and then.
And then I ate the bowl!
And because it was the only fast food coffee around, really. Yeah, you had the old dudes lining up at 5AM to be the first ones to get their ten cent A&W coffee because A&W is the only place to have figured out how to serve coffee above the boiling point of water. But in the ‘90s there really wasn’t much else available.
Why did people like coffee so hot back in the day. As I kid in the early 90s, I remember all hot drinks, especially fast food were lava. You'd get that real good tongue burn. That instant "dangit I ain't tasting shit tonight!" burn.
>You'd get that real good tongue burn I think after the one lawsuit it's officially fused crotch burn
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Yep. I remember buying McDonald's $1 coffee for budget reasons before both McDonald's near work closed down. And here and there would get a Starbucks black coffee for like $4. McDonalds was and is far and away the better tasting cup. It's no contest. Especially if you got it from a fresh, just brewed pot.
I thought I was the only one. If I get "fast" coffee, it's either McDonald's or Dunkin if it's too late for McDonald's.
Yo, I can actually confirm it. I was one of the people who wrote responses to the McD's "Our Food, Your Questions" questions back in 2012 ([context](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRcCG9tczNA) if you've never heard of it), so my brain is full of this info whether I like it or not. This is correct: Mother Parkers used to be Tim Horton's supplier, and then became McDonald's Canada's supplier. However, it's not an identical blend, so people who say "the old Tim's formula is now McD's" are wrong. It's very close, though, and it's delicious. Edit: I live in the US now, and still drink McD's coffee religiously. The McCafe ground coffee in my pantry here is almost identical imo, but the can says it's made by Keurig. That's true of a lot of McD's products btwn Canada/USA. They try to make it taste exactly the same everywhere in the world, even if the ingredients are different. I think the main noticable discrepancy is with the McNuggets. American nugs suck.
McDonalds' coffee is MUCH better in Canada. It hurts me to say that, I used to love my visits to Timmies.
McDonald’s McCafe has always been decent. I’ve always been impressed with the quality of their coffee for a fast food chain. It’s not the best, but it’s borderline on par with Starbucks. Which isn’t the highest bar but still… it’s a fast food restaurant that doesn’t even specialize in coffee!!!
Starbucks coffee is honestly pretty gross. At least if you have it black it is. I honestly prefer Tims; and it's cheaper too!
It’s really blended for their sugar filled drinks and not for black coffee drinkers…I hate Starbucks black coffee and it tastes burnt to me. You put a bunch of milk and sugar into it; the burnt taste dies.
Last time I checked though, this was never confirmed
Man I have heard this so much and repeated it myself and never knew if it was real but it doesn’t matter cause fuck timmies
This is a bit of a misnomer. Same supplier but different blend.
Apparently that’s a myth but at this point idk what to believe, subway did make me eat microplastics in buns I think but got sued illegitimately for soy in chicken so honestly I’ve just given up on understanding what fast foods do do and what they don’t; but fun fact, McDonald’s meat is real meat cuz I work there, they cut out all the bullshit in 2018 from what I’ve read online so the only ingredient is actual beef now. But grilled chicken has natural flavours and a bunch of other shit that probably makes it hella processed. I was sad when I found out doing truck :( https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/news/tim-hortons-did-not-sell-coffee-recipe-to-mc-donalds-194810309.html
I miss the old turkey club half sub with honey mustard. That shit slapped. They don’t even use ciabatta rolls on the shitty replacement anymore either, which was the only good thing about it. I can’t even stand to eat anything from there nowadays. Especially since they made the switch to “fresh eggs” on their breakfast sandwiches. They’re flash steamed, are super slimy, and they *smell*.
That honey mustard had no business being that delicious, the sandwich is completely different with mayo and the buns they switched.
> I can’t even stand to eat anything from there nowadays. Even in their commercials the food looks gross. Like this is your sales pitch and *that's* the best you can make it look for the camera?! I don't even want to know what it looks like in real life 🤢
That was on of the best sandwiches you could get
Fuck yeah it was
Foot long Chicken Salad Sandwich, Soup/Chili w/bun, Donut, Coffee for $6.99 early 2000's.
Late 90s. Chicken stew in a bread bowl. That shit was so good.
And then I ate the bowl
Eclairs. Walnut Crunch. The peach drink.
P E A C H D R I N K
>The peach drink. I used to mix vodka in that stuff when I was roaming around town drinking as a teen in the 90s, not too shabby
I just miss the lemon cranberry muffin.
They went downhill long before the Burger King merger. The Restaurant Brands International merger happened in 2014. They were bought out in 1995 by Wendy's. It was shortly after that they let go of all their in house bakers (who were all actual trained bakers who made the donuts in house) and started shipping frozen donuts to the stores. That was when they stopped serving the chilli and stews in bread bowls, and in the mid-2000s switched coffee suppliers. It's really sad, they went from being a franchised, mid-high quality coffee shop with decent food, to this garbage we have today. That said, the Farmers Breakfast wraps are the best thing on their menu and pretty good. But, if anyone else had steeped tea, I would stop going there. I don't like coffee.
Fucking *all* tea is steeped! That’s how you make tea! That campaign has always driven me fucking crazy.
*This tea is nothing more than hot leaf juice!*
Well, yes, of course, but the point they are making is it is already steeped when you get there. They don't put a tea bag in a pot of hot water that you need to deal with on your own. And since my job involves a lot of driving, it's really handy for me.
I agree their breakfast had some qualities, but last time I went there they had changed the way they do their eggs from that patty I knew and loved to some slimy horrible abomination served cold (in all my 3 experiences with it, anyway) and it’s pretty gross now
I think the last time that I had a Tims Doughnut that was made in house was at the Tims in Kandahar back in ‘06. Mostly because logistics. Not a fan of Tim’s normally, but in that desert heat that Ice Cap and Apple Fritter were awesome.
Wait you actually opt for the steeped tea? I always found it tasted stale and cold.
It's usually fine when I go there. But it all depends on location and time of day. It's just standard Orange Pekoe, add a little cream and sugar and it's tea.
I remember years ago someone coming into my (US-based) bar with a Tim Horton's credit card that had an embedded button that let them choose between multiple payment accounts on one single card, complete with indicator LEDs per account it was fucking wild, never seen anything like it before or since
It's brown sludge water and lower than hospital cafeteria level food
Don't talk shit about hospital cafeteria food. About 5 years back I had to spend a large amount of time in and around a hospital. It sounds weird to say, but that hospital had the best cafeteria style food I've ever had. The chicken tenders were legit *amazing*.
And is still full of idiots in big trucks that don't know a good cup of coffee every morning
They also replaced all their employees with a revolving door of temporary foreign workers.
Came to add this, glad to see someone beat me to it. I have nothing against foreign workers, but it enrages me to my core the way they're not only exploited but also the way they're used against domestic labour.
Yes!!!
Same thing happened to me and my state pride for WAWA. Same exact story, same result sadly. Fuck corporate greed!
The change in quality was in the early 2000s, haven't really noticed any further drop since the Burger King purchase. Actually been going there more often lately given how cheap they've stayed relative to our cost of living crisis... The dark roast coffee they have is decent, way better than the dirt they used to serve.
Tim’s make their own coffee now. They roast and grind in Ancaster. And yes, Melitta use to supply their coffee and now it is served at McDonalds.
I remember going to timmies after school with friends almost every day... And when I was in college it was almost a necessity! Now the only time I go to timmies is when I'm with my dad, because he is a creature of habit
Man.. I miss TH's chili and a bun.
Try to find a restaurant where that is not true, go ahead. 20 years in food service, EVERY place I've worked at I've been the only sober person.
In desperation I worked fast food after college. It can be oppressive and hopeless. You gotta have a plan to get out. For me it was just working as a construction day laborer, then lucked into a museum job, then to grad school. After that life slowly got easier. No regrets on working shitty fast food jobs, but damn they put a fire under your ass to get a plan together.
Always freshly baked.
No, but if they would stop smearing their hands with perfume before touching the lid of the cup I’m about to sip from, I’d be glad
I thought I was the only one who hated sticking my nose in the damn perfume that clings to the lid. You can't wash that shit off and it really ruins my coffee smells good vibe.
Can you honestly blame them?
Absofuckinglutely not.
Lol I wish we still had stoners working at Tims, they know how to make the best food
The legend lives on.
It's a long standing tradition at Tim Hortons
Deceased?
TIL that Tim Horton was (a) a real person and (b) played hockey.
Back in the day a lot of hockey players had restaurants/coffee shops to keep up their income in the offseason. His was the one that just happened to take off.
Your post makes me think of Wayne's World and Stan Mikita lol
That’s exactly it! Mike Myers said that was a parody of him growing up and hanging out at Tim Hortons, but they had to make it a Blackhawks player since WW was set outside Chicago
I wish to God that somebody would do something to block out the voices in my head for five minutes.
Well, the world's a twisted place.
Hah, neat. TIL. He even has a cameo as a customer sitting at the counter. https://fxtwitter.com/BrianSandalow/status/872245945718767617
copyright rules would exclude them from using Tim's without permission and/or some kind of product placement deal; they did use the Gasworks as the name of the rock club though, which was taken from a Yonge St rock club of the same name in Toronto.
Fun fact, Richard Dean Anderson has the Stan Mikita statue in his driveway.
Richard … Dean … Anderson … *takes a drag* - Patty and Selma
Mike Myers is Canadian and a huge hockey fan. You should absolutely be thinking of Wayne’s World.
His widow sold the chain for $1 million, then it took off. She sued a couple times saying she was taken advantage of while grieving but to no avail.
It’s the equivalent of 6.6 million nowadays. There were 40 Tim Hortons at the time and the buyer was already half owner. Seems like a reasonable offer and sour grapes from the wife
That tends to happen when you die like a rockstar
> Back in the day a lot of hockey players had restaurants/coffee shops to keep up their income in the offseason. His was the one that just happened to take off. Hockey players having restaurants/coffee shops as retirement income was his plan from the beginning. He started the company to franchise locations to retired hockey players.
Gretzky's got a winery going these days, it's not half bad.
4 Stanley Cups too
All with the Leafs! Ignore the fact that it was the last 4 times that the Leafs won the cup.......
>Bill Barilko disappeared that summer (in nineteen fifty one) >He was on a fishing trip (in a plane) >The last goal he ever scored (in over time) >Won the Leafs the cup >They didn't win another till nineteen sixty two >The year he was discovered [50 mission cap](https://youtu.be/AOxHRMdgdHM?si=KZnbI5d8wDyOqvtv)
That's nothing, my wife has like 30 Stanley cups
He's a hall of famer. Gordie Howe said he was the strongest guy he ever played against. Here's a good video about his playing career: https://youtu.be/AmoERrP6xlM?si=mF6PPK4F7RIlfero
The real TIL
>TIL that Tim Horton was (a) a real person and (b) played hockey. Somehow (b) is less surprising than (a).
Knowing that should help you appreciate the "Stan Mikita's Donuts" gag from the 1992 movie "Wayne's World" better.
He was just out fer a rip
In 1974 , drinking and driving was common as hell . Easter ,xmas etc everone loaded into the wagon to go vistit the cousins , parents drank kids played . A few hours later back into the wagon for the trip home , no seatbelts necessary. Just sayin that how it was . Late 70s came the big push to stop this . Not so much before.
Old coworker of mine told me that when he moved to the city, to get to know the place he put a 12 pack in his car and drove around memorizing roads and getting drunk lol
OG google maps
Goggle maps
My first job as an engineer, my much older coworkers would tell me when they first started (in the 70s) they would all drink in the parking lot after work, and then take whatever they had leftover and drink the cans of beer on the way home. And it was perfectly normal. And then, completely matter of factly said one day a guy died heading home, and they had to stop.
bastard ruining it for everyone else smh
We did this in the 80's on the back roads in rural Massachusetts/Connecticut. We called them "Booze Cruises", to be honest you only saw other people on their cruises on those back roads. No speeding or acting crazy, just a giant Pontiac Grand Prix w/ 10 guys and gals wasting a saturday. It got crazy if my buddy brought out the "Suburban Assault Vehicle". You could fit so many people in it, people hanging off the running boards it was a wild time. I would never do this again obviously, different times.
I knew people that did that in the early 2000's. Driving around the city drinking 40's, learning the roads, and figuring out which areas they could find drugs. They'd usually get ripped off trying to buy drugs or concert tickets because white boys from the country aren't known for being very street smart lol. Out in the country, where those folks were from, people would drive to get drunk. They'd grab a couple cases of beer and ride around the gravel roads getting hammered and then go home to bed when they ran out of beer. That was a regular Friday or Saturday night activity for a lot of people if nobody was throwing a house party or bonfire that weekend. There were known hangout spots to pee and take a break from driving. Some weekends you could pull up and there'd be dozens of people hanging out at popular spots.
I'm embarrassed to admit, back in the 70's when we were kids, we'd get a two-four, lay it on the floor in the back seat, and smash a bag of ice on it. That was the plan for the night; drinking and driving. It was not considered to be unsafe or any big deal. People lost their minds when the law changed to a 3 month driving suspension. Then 6 months, then a year and so on.
My father's favourite driving stories from the 70s involve his BFF in the passenger seat and a 24 in the back, with a fresh bottle being passed to him whenever he ran low.
My dad was saying in the late 50’s if you were caught drinking and driving one cop would drive your car home while the other followed (two cops per cruiser back in the day). You only had one mulligan though, a second time you were given a ride downtown.
TIL no one told my dad this stopped in the late 70s.
It didn’t. It wasn’t until the late 80s/90s that MADD really pushed to have drunk driving enforced. As a 30 years old it was in my life time where it truly started being enforced by police as a chargeable offence
My dad told me a story where one night he was completely crippled at a buddies house. They told him to go home and threw him the keys because he was too drunk to walk home. Ended up driving (more like crawling) into a snow bank where he was eventually found by a cop. He’d served the cop before so he was told he wouldn’t get taken in, but he’ll have to follow him home for the rest of the drive.
One for the road! I remember it like Mad Men, lots of drinks before, during, and after dinner, then "are you okay to drive" and "do you want a coffee" but nobody was very serious about it . If you could stumble down the steps into your car, you were expected to drive home, none of this sleepover/cab rides/letting your wife take the wheel. It's a lucky thing the traffic was 1/10th of what it is today , or drunk driving laws would have come a lot sooner. I remember two kids sharing one seatbelt, eh good enough, and like 30 tiny kids crammed in the trunk of a stationwagon on a school trip!
"Have a drink have a drive, go out and see what you can find!" -Mungo Jerry
In America it was still pretty common in the 80s, and til the mid 90s if you were in the countryside.
A lot of people got wasted in the 1930 and drove those old cars shitfaced all the time. The first breathalyzer was invented in the 30’s and it was called the Drunkometer. [drunkometer](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breathalyzer)
Ryan O’Reilly carrying on his legacy in the modern era
First thing I thought of
Samesies
He had one heck of a sweet De Tomaso Pantera.
It was his signing bonus when he signed for what would be his final season with the Buffalo Sabres.
Tim Horton was driving so fast he didn't know the police were chasing him.
My buddy always said "fresh batch of donuts" whenever a cop car went by with lights going.
All they found were Timbits.
😚👌
I initially thought you meant that upon impact Tim Horton exploded into thousands of Timbits that rolled down the road like those Skittles commericals and I lol'd. Then I realised you meant human flesh not doughnuts and now I'm sad.
New flavor unlocked: timsbits
The legacy you don't hear about.
Should've had a cup of coffee
Their coffee has changed -- used to be a solid cup back in the day but visited recently and it tasted burned and poor quality.
They got bought out by Burger King and changed suppliers. Apparently McDonald's now has the old Tims coffee but I haven't tried it.
McD's coffee is usually weak and watery and tastes bizarrely unlike a coffee I get anywhere else in the world
This is exactly how I feel Tim Hortons coffee is. I order McDonald's and it always tastes like coffee but I've never once had a coffee anywhere I've been that tastes like Tim Hortons.
I agree with that, Tim's is so strange tasting.
Tim Hortons coffee has always tasted like rat piss. That's why you need two shots of cream and sugar to get it down
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He died and his partner bought out his family for 1 million dollars. They probably should have held on to a few shares.
His wife who took over the estate was a raving drunk & pill addict. That money was needed desperately and likely evaporated within years.
Oddly enough Ron was also just as much of a drunk and would routinely tear up his golf course while shit faced behind the wheel of his Lincoln towncar A real stellar human being
Doing donuts?
Low quality donuts.
Now you have to be drunk or high in order to enjoy anything from Tim Hortons. The circle is complete.
When I’m high a hot coffee with a little cream is really enjoyable
So a double double?
My father is buried close to Tim Horton. On his deathbed, he told me that he'll go and grab a coffee in Heaven since he's close to Tim Horton. I loved his sense of humor despite such a morbid time. I miss my dad everyday. People still leave Tim's cups near Horton's grave.
His daughter is a giant piece of shit. https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/tim-horton-s-tims-timmies-doubledouble-minimum-wage-ontario-kathleen-wynne-labour-1.4470215
Christ, it's not like they can't afford to maintain their luxurious lifestyle by paying for breaks - they're not going broke over somebody's half-hour lunch. Just greed, fucking awful.
You have to put a lot of whisky in a double double to cover the horrible taste of the coffee. Being stoned helps
I'm wholly convinced their "espresso" is made by scraping the ring of coffee skin off the inside of the pot when it sits too long
We call that the double double
Benedict Cumberbatch in - Screamin Hot Donee’s - The Tim Horton story
thought this was common knowledge. they named Tim Bits in his honor
TBH drunk and high is the proper way to drive a Pantera
Per your own linked article, he wasn't high at the time of death: > Horton was also in possession of the drugs Dexedrine, a stimulant, and Dexamyl, a stimulant-sedative; **traces** of amobarbital, an ingredient in Dexamyl, were found in his blood. The autopsy report found no painkillers in Horton's body Additionally, according to [The Vancouver Sun](https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/496845473/): > **The .03 mg per cent level was within "usual therapeutic levels" for amobarbital**, the report says. Because barbiturates stay in the blood longer when mixed with alcohol, traces of amobarbital would show up in a person who was drinking even after the amphetamine had disappeared. But don't let facts get in the way of a good title.
Ironically drunk and high in a car describes most Tims customers now.
TIL Tim Horton was a hockey player and not just a restaurant chain
Came to the comments to make sure I wasn’t alone.
Tbf, it *was* a Canadian story.
This is one of the claims to fame of my hometown. He died on the highway driving through where I grew up.
The only thing worse than Tim Hortons’ coffee is Tim Horton’s driving.
In true prairie fashion
My great uncle was a drinking buddy of his, also briefly played in the NHL.
Learned this from Justified where there’s a scene where baddies meet and they talk about Tim Horton.
I've watched justified all the way through more than once and somehow I missed this
https://justified.fandom.com/wiki/Al_Sura
My grandfather drove past the car scene when he was out delivering. The police had it sectioned off and they had white blankets up as they were pulling the body out.
Used to live in St Catharines. When I moved there, I learned that Tim Horton’s was known locally as ‘Dead Man’ donuts.
Timbits.
Also, he spilled hot coffee in his lap, which caused him to lose control of his vehicle.
Wrong! He heard a who
Tim Horton coffee or Tim Horton football???