[Canadarmed]

A few years ago Canadians who had moved to Silicon Valley were polled and asked what they missed most about Canada. The first was greenspace the second Tim Horton's! I have bought their coffee and coffee maker and the at home version just isn't the same! So I want to know what everyone here thinks they put in their coffee that makes us drive all over heck's acre to get to one? (Actually, you no longer have to drive that far since they are practically on every corner!) So what is the magic ingredient, folks?

[Evan]

Caffine and lots of it!!! Just below the legal dose. Caffine is a drug and like any drug you can get addicted!!

[blubs]

I dont know what they do to their coffe Evan but if I dont have a xtra large black at least three times a week I go crazy. their coffe is by far the best I have ever drank.
Scarecrow was going to buy a timmies coffe machine they are not that good eh.

[mike2277]

For me, coffee is just a caffiene delivery system. I don't care where it comes from.....whoever has the shortest line-up at the drive-thru

Horton's are pretty damn thick on the ground in Southern Ontario. Is this the case everywhere? I spent most of January in Thunder Bay, and there are a lot more Robin's Donuts than Timmy's. I think any Robin's that opened in Kitchener went tits up. (the one by my place is now another Horton's!) Also, my brother lives in downtown Vancouver and maintains that there are over 25 Starbucks within a 10 minute walk from his apartment.

[blubs]

Mike your bro is right about Starbucks you cant go a half a block with out running into one. Personally I will die before I drink their bloody coffe. In Calgary we do have Robyns but it is no where as popular as T.H. Funny thing is tho I dont care much for their donuts. I read Calgary is getting two Krispy Kreams this summer am looking forward to that.

[mike2277]

We had a Krispy Kreme open in Kitchener about a year ago. I don't think they're doing very well. I drive by at least twice a day during the week and the place looks abandoned! They must make all their $ on the weekends by selling donuts.

[blubs]

hmm weird cause thats all you hear about in the states Krispy Kream this Krispy Kream that wonder how they will do in Calgary.

[mike2277]

It's all about the donuts Blubs. A friend of mine has a step-daughter that works for Tim Hortons head office. We were talking a couple of years ago, shortly after Hortons had opened some stores in the States. She said that in Canada their sales were 80% coffee and 20% other. In their American stores their sales were 80% donuts. I've never had a Krispy Kreme donut, (not a big donut fan) but people do rave about them. The story on the coffee is that it's expensive and more along the lines of Starbucks than Timmy's.

[Rosco]

Tim Horton's has it all over the other donut chains except for their crappy little donuts, a lot of the time even supermarket bakeries make a just as good or better donut IMO. Besides a better donut line I'd really like to see them go back to being Canadian owned.

Krispy Kreme OTOH is just the opposite, everything is lousy except for their donuts. I find Krispy Kreme's donuts are good but overrated, my favorite donut chain is Lamar's donuts which you can only find in the southern U.S., their donuts at least are a lot better than KK.

There are a lot of little "mom and pop" places down there that specialize in buttermilk donuts that are better than any chain store though.

I hate Starbucks but you have to give them credit as before they and the rest of the Seattle Coffee Revolution it was damn hard to find what passed for a decent cup of coffee anywhere in North America, you pretty much had to go to a specialty store and buy a bag of beans.

[karra]

It's my understanding that timmys coffee tastes as good as it does because of the high temperature of the water AND only timmys sells a coffee maker that produces that high temp. Being a consumer of large double-doubles I always thought it was simply the coffee and cream.

$1:

I have bought their coffee and coffee maker and the at home version just isn't the same!

I'm surprised at that as their coffee maker is probably the most expensive.

I spoke with the manager of a small timmys in a small town in northern Ontario a couple of years ago. His location sold over 10,000 cups of coffee a day. Huge pedestrian and vehicle line ups. Not much profit in baked goods due to labour costs. People have noted of late the decline in taste of donuts. This is due to the stores no longer producing them on the premises as they are now trucked in frozen and simply baked.

[Indelible]

i have to admit i love tim's coffee and i agree with her on why although i'm not sure if that's all there is to it.

however, there is a coffee i like better than tims and that is coffee shop coffee.... see, tim's coffee is always the same coffee (which is a good thing becasue it's good coffee) but if i want a specialty coffee they don'at have that at tims whereas at a coffee shop there's gotta be a hundred kinds of coffe that are all dif....my fav coffee shop is in lethbridge where i used to live called "the penny coffee house" all sorts of flavours there.....and if i want i can have a shot of that flavour syrup....what's it called you know like "torani's" stuff...stuff like B-52 flavour or amaretto flavout just w/o the booze in it...really good stuff...

[RoyalHighlander]

Ahhh Timmy Ho'scoffee...mmmm but the donuts are another thing now,, They arent fresh baked at each store any more,,, they are partially baked and flash frozen then sent out to stoire that do the final baking on them....

[drunken_prop]

I'm not a big coffee fan, I like steamed milk. I just think coffee taste gross. However I will drink a cup of tea anytime. However I do enjoy a good donut once and a while.

[drunken_prop]

I'm not a big coffee fan, I like steamed milk. I just think coffee taste gross. However I will drink a cup of tea anytime. However I do enjoy a good donut once and a while.

[AdamNF]

I use to drink so much coffey, working 6am to 6pm shifts on a printing press calls for a lot of coffey. But i havnt had a cup csince i left that job.