50

Found in Manchester, UK.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[-] kae@lemmy.ca 81 points 1 year ago

It was... Once upon a time. Now those who drink coffee largely regard it as brown, burnt water.

Tim Hortons was once a magical place that lives up to the nostalgia fuel marketing that drives the franchise to this day. Every single store has actual bakers on staff who made the pastries, the coffee was genuinely fresh, and it seemed like staff were valued.

Then it got sold to the investment bankers and franchise conglomerates. It's been min/maxed to death, whittling down every cost to the bare minimum. Things taste like cardboard, and people go because it's there.

Interestingly enough, when McDonald's moved into the coffee game, they picked up the bean contract that Tim Hortons held for eons. Tim's dropped it for cost, and not an insignificant amount of people swapped over to McDonald's for their coffee.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 36 points 1 year ago

In 2001, when I left Canada, I had fond memories of Tim Horton's donuts and other confections. In 2016 when I went back for some paperwork and stayed a month I was absolutely shocked at just how crap Tim Horton's donuts had become: stale, lifeless, and oversugared/underflavoured. (I'd never liked the coffee so I didn't try it.)

Something big was lost in that decade and a half.

Fucking capitalists.

[-] Kichae@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 year ago

The donuts are still sometimes ok if you get there at juuuuuust the right time. But they go stale so fast now. And yeah, some of them seem to be way more sugary than they used to be (some of them hurt my teeth, they have so much sugar).

The coffee though... There's no magic time where it's possibly ok.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I only went twice in 2016. Both times were so lousy I decided I'd not bother anymore. Which is too bad. I used to really enjoy Tim Horton's. 😬

[-] rbos@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Timbits are so bad now. Encrusted in sugar, and they use some kind of weird oil now.

[-] rekabis@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Fucking capitalists

Fucking vulture/vampire capitalists.

Timmies is now owned by what amounts to a vulture/vampire capitalist group.

And out of a good 12 Timmies in my region, there is only 1 that I willingly patronize, because they actually fill the cup up to the top. No-one else in the area does this, they leave a good 20-25% empty headspace in the cup.

And I’m a sucker for their French Vanilla, it’s the only reason why I even patronize them. I always reach for that when I want to play a game of chicken with my blood glucose.

[-] ttmrichter@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

That's what I said. Fucking capitalists.

Some vultures are just better at hiding their rapaciousness than others for a while.

load more comments (8 replies)
this post was submitted on 09 Nov 2023
50 points (85.7% liked)

Canada

7200 readers
304 users here now

What's going on Canada?



Communities


🍁 Meta


🗺️ Provinces / Territories


🏙️ Cities / Local Communities


🏒 SportsHockey

Football (NFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Football (CFL)

  • List of All Teams: unknown

Baseball

Basketball

Soccer


💻 Universities


💵 Finance / Shopping


🗣️ Politics


🍁 Social and Culture


Rules

Reminder that the rules for lemmy.ca also apply here. See the sidebar on the homepage:

https://lemmy.ca


founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS