/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11438150]

What went wrong?

[Anonymous No.11438153]

became publicly traded

[Anonymous No.11438160]

>>11438153
All hail our Brazillian overlords.

[Anonymous No.11438397]

>>11438150
Reminder that leafs national identity is built around a coffee fast food chain, macaroni and cheese, and ice polo

[Anonymous No.11438402]

>>11438397
Dont forget fries and gravy

[Anonymous No.11438407]

>>11438397
Not such a bad thing if you ask me.

[Anonymous No.11438410]

>>11438150
Not having better restaurants.

[Anonymous No.11438426]

>>11438397
You forgot the inferiority complex with the US.

[Anonymous No.11438442]

>>11438150
(((Jorge Paulo Lemann))) of 3G Capital
>3G Capital is 51% owner of Restaurant Brands International
>Restaurant Brands International is the parent company of Tim Hortons Inc

Anyway, placing any cultural importance in a particular corporation is retarded

[Anonymous No.11438448]

>>11438397
Don't forget the Muh Politeness cucks

[Anonymous No.11438475]

>>11438150
Did they get worse, or have they just not done anything to improve as competitors got better?

I moved from western Canada where there are fewer Tim Hortons than Starbucks to the east (and there isn't this weird Tim Hortons worship culture that the rest of country seems to have), and I couldn't understand why everybody was constantly sucking Tim Horton's dick whenever coffee or donut came up in conversation. It's just extremely sugary donuts packed full of high fructose corn syrup that's maybe just very slightly better than the ones at grocery store bakeries, and the coffee is just barely okay.

[Anonymous No.11438489]

>>11438475
I can't back my claim up, but I've heard that McDonald's literally picked up Tim Horton's old coffee supplier. In my experience, the quality has gone down far enough such that people do admit that McDonald's is better. However, they will never badmouth Horton's 3.5 inch dick.

[Anonymous No.11438500]

Leaf here.

Tim Hortons is shit, always shit, and always will be shit.

What it also is however is cheap. I can get a coffee and a donut for less than 3 dollars. At starbucks, or any other big chain I don't think I could get a normal coffee of equivalent size for that. That's why people go to Tims, not because its the best, because its cheap, everywhere and open 24/7.

The conflation of Tim Hortons with Canadian identity started with Tim Hortons itself focusing on that in its branding. All their ads focus on it because they're the biggest national coffee chain here, and since its everywhere they figured they could try to tie it into national identity. The only people who get "patriotic" about Tim Hortons are the same type of high functioning retards as the Americans who tell you Budweiser is the greatest beer on Earth.

[Anonymous No.11438564]

>>11438150
Reminder that Tim Horton's used to have bakeries in every store, with doughnuts and such baked fresh in-house. They walked away from that as a cost-cutting measure, and ruined their best attribute. Also they've let their coffee go downhill.

As with many things, they were good while they were building their brand, but now that they're a well known brand they can just coast and cut costs to the bare minimum

[Anonymous No.11438572]

>>11438397
Shitty beer

[Anonymous No.11438578]

>>11438150
"Restaurant Brands International" which is also why Burger King went down the shitter and why Popeye's is doomed to the same fate. See >>11438153, >>11438160, >>11438442.

[Anonymous No.11438591]

>>11438397
Yeah it's embarrassing. Except for hockey; that's actually a lot less embarrassing than other countries' obsessions over American football, soccer, probably just about every sport other than baseball and rugby. Seriously, hockey's great.
>>11438578
>Popeye's is doomed to the same fate
Unfortunate, but I believe it.

[Anonymous No.11438596]

>tfw Tim's coffee is way too acidic
>tfw Starbucks is way too bitter
>tfw no other major chains in Canada

WWWWWWWWEEEEEEEEEEEWWWWW

[Anonymous No.11438604]

>>11438596
I don't know what things are like where you live but there's like 5 local chains in my city that are all better than that, plus all the hipster ones, though I've found they often tend to source their beans from the same few roasters.

[Anonymous No.11438613]

>>11438150
>tfw friend works as manager in one of these
I wonder what it's like

[Anonymous No.11438623]

9 times out of ten the guy taking your order can barely speak English.

[Anonymous No.11438658]

>>11438397
Yeah it's not so great. Hockey is fine. But other than that it's embarrassing. Especially since there is so much good shout we could have built off of like exploration and fur trade.

Be a trad dominion lad. Not a cucked timmies leaf

[Anonymous No.11438672]

>>11438613
Get to fuck a lot of teenagers?

[Anonymous No.11438729]

>>11438489
>>11438150
When the brazilians bought out timmies they got rid of all their canadian suppliers and switched it to the same people who supply BK/Krispy creme. They essentially americanized the menu and are basically playing how much can we cut from the product before they actually notice. The majority of timmies use keruig cups now, its not even "Freshly brewed coffee" Also Mcdonalds did pick up the old coffee supplier from tim hortons when they got ousted thats why theres such a noticeable difference between the american and canadian coffee version. I just miss those fresh timbits you get before a cold morning practice for hockey besides the nostalgia it was actually a different taste, now everything just tastes like pure doughy plastic.

[Anonymous No.11438875]

>>11438729
This is very true. It stopped being a decidedly Canadian company a long time ago and instead of their corporate going back to their tried and true roots they have just doubled down on getting away from what worked in the first place.

Like, in response to their client base becoming more despondent about Timmies place in the Canadian identity, corporate decided to start opening locations in China. It's like saying "if you don't like the changes then fuck you, we'll take our business somewhere it's not even wanted".
How the fuck is anyone this retarded?

[Anonymous No.11438908]

I wish a Japanese company would take over
Restaurant Brands International (Burger King, Tim Hortons, and Popeyes). American style management isn't working for Tim Horton's.

[Anonymous No.11438923]

>>11438397
and Chinese

[Anonymous No.11438930]

>>11438500
This, pretty much. I can always rely on tim hortons for some cheap coffee and donuts at like 4:00 AM. The Donuts suck ass but their soup is decent, I really liked the thai chicken soup they had for a limited time.

[Anonymous No.11439057]

any stores that sell double choclate donuts asides from Tims?

[Anonymous No.11439058]

>>11438500
but budweiser is literally the king of beers

[Anonymous No.11439093]

worst part about it was the coffee store/donut shop holocaust that preceded Tim's fall from grace

if only we had known perhaps Robin's and Country Time would still be here to make Tim Horton's have to compete instead of atrophying on its laurels

[Anonymous No.11439135]

>>11439093
I think the best solution is to bring Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese coffeehouse franchises into Canada.

[Anonymous No.11439193]

>>11438596
mcdonald's is a bit better than tim's
pond water is better than starbuck's

[Anonymous No.11439201]

>>11438150
not strong enough and needs more sour cream glaze

[Anonymous No.11439214]

the frosting coming off of dips is a relatively new thing, right? 5 years or so
why would they just ignore how fucked their product is and continue an obviously defective way of handling donuts when it is their business to handle donuts?

[Anonymous No.11439351]

>>11439214
Closer to about ten years ago, although it used to be rare. That was around the time the Boston Cream and Strawberry Vanilla filling completely changed to save money.

[Anonymous No.11439382]

>>11439193
What is Pond Water like? They don't have those in my province

[Anonymous No.11439400]

>>11438475
You hfcs fags are insufferable. Can you taste the hfcs?

[Anonymous No.11439406]

>>11439400
Huh?

[Anonymous No.11439520]

>>11438150
They stopped actually having in-store bakeries. It's been complete garbage ever since, which is to say for like 20 years now.

[Anonymous No.11439523]

gotta pour out a double double for my boy Walnut Crunch

[Anonymous No.11441363]

>>11438397
And as of recently, weed.

[Anonymous No.11441511]

>>11438475
>Did they get worse,
Yes.
Outside of remote franchises in Newfoundland, Tims stopped baking doughnuts fresh in 2003 and now ship frozen doughnuts nation-wide out of a factory in Ontario.
Also there's been some fuckery to their coffee supply chain since 2009, when they stopped doing whatever it was they had done before and opened their own central roasting facility.
Not that the second point matters much when the aging Bunn coffee machines in every franchise are erratic, inconsistent, and never cleaned properly.

[Anonymous No.11441725]

i remember going to a timmies at like 5 in the morning and all their donuts were hot and fresh out of the oven. shit tasted amazing

[Anonymous No.11441830]

>>11438150
>baked goods and pastries are shipped in frozen and warmed instead of baked on spot
>coffee tastes like the burnt grinds of Satan's shit
>hot chocolate is obviously made with powder and sits at the bottom of the cup like a disgusting syrup
>food is meh at best
Embarrassing how this is the national brand we parrot as a sign of patriotism

[Anonymous No.11441961]

>>11438397
don't forget the maple syrup and seal clubbing

[Anonymous No.11442015]

>>11441961
Oh God, I love clubbing seal pups to death...I find it so relaxing desu...

[Anonymous No.11442048]

>>11438397
Whereas American identity is based on muscle cars, school shootings, and a burger chain.

[Anonymous No.11442084]

The fuck happened to Tim's customer service over the past few years? I swear it keeps getting worse and worse. Just me?

[Anonymous No.11442144]

>be me
>driving from Montreal to Niagara
>half way point, pull over for a bathroom break and to stretch my legs
>snowing like fuck outside
>"I'm getting kind of drowsy I'll grab a coffee and a donut"
>get a small with one milk one sugar to cut the acidity and a sour cream donut
>hop back on the 401
>drive through the blizzard with my crappy coffee and crappy donut listening to cbc

[Anonymous No.11442161]

>>11438623
this
fucking frenchies

[Anonymous No.11442289]

>>11438500
This.
Nobody wants to pay $7 for a gay looking over frap green tea pumpkin spice macchiato.
When you want coffee you just want fucking coffee

[Anonymous No.11442378]

>>11438448
politeness is a new thing for us
previously it was war crimes

[Anonymous No.11442398]

>>11439135
Turns out 95% of white piggus can't really tell the difference between horrid coffee and good coffee, and Asian coffee chains know they'd end up fighting for that tiny 5% because the incumbents will always have name recognition advantage, which is not worth putting hundreds of millions dollars of capital investment necessary to even start expanding into the United States.

[Anonymous No.11442433]

>>11438596
Second Cup?

[Anonymous No.11442504]

>>11438397
true, but better than your identity being centered around israel

[Anonymous No.11442606]

I for one like their coffee. Their baked goods are trash though

[Anonymous No.11442633]

>>11438150
Good question. That question has yet to be answered with any certainty.

[Anonymous No.11442786]

>>11439400
Yes, it is sweeter than cane or beet sugar and has a fuller or thicker mouth feel towards the back of the throat. Any other questions?

[Anonymous No.11443782]

>>11438397
Don’t forget industrial scale marijuana production and cross border smuggling, counterfeit coun smuggling, and a very good sniper.

[Anonymous No.11444249]

>>11439523
Only women put cream and sugar in coffee

[Anonymous No.11444259]

>>11441830
Name 1 place that doesn't use powder for hot chocolate

[Anonymous No.11444263]

>>11442606
Sour cream timbits are better than sex desu

[Anonymous No.11444304]

>>11444249
you're wrong and stupid

[Anonymous No.11444447]

>>11444304
Not my fault you're a cum loving faggot bitch

[Anonymous No.11444459]

>>11438150
I've only lived near a tim hortons for a year and it's just a shit version of dunkin donuts and that's saying something since DD is shit in itself

[Anonymous No.11444460]

>>11444447
haha some funny stuff you posted
oh wait

[Anonymous No.11444466]

>>11438475
Sounds like dunkin donuts. I will never understand east coast gags fascination with that place. Pure marketing at this point.

[Anonymous No.11444470]

I wish Wawa would just come up the east coast instead of down and put all these shit places out of business

[Anonymous No.11444725]

>>11444460
You put cream in your coffee. Might as well put some cum down your throat too

[Anonymous No.11444778]

>>11439057
Dunkin' Donuts

[Anonymous No.11444822]

>>11444725
hahaha holy shit that's good

[Anonymous No.11444875]

>>11438397
>implying we even claim to have a national identity

[Anonymous No.11444910]

>>11442084
HELO I AM PUNJAB OF TIM HORTON COSTOMER SERVICE
HOW MAY I HELP YOO

[Anonymous No.11446049]

>iconic donut shop with fresh and simple menu
>foreign JEJEMON buyers swoop in
>huge menu
>nothing fresh

they've done it before to other franchise and ruin everything

[Anonymous No.11446514]

>>11446049
enjoy everything good in the world being eroded away, all for a few extra shekels

[Anonymous No.11446566]

>>11438475
>very slightly better than the ones at grocery store bakeries
Every grocery store with a bakery that I have been to in Saskatchewan and Alberta has MUCH better donuts than what Tim Hortons sells.

Tim Hortons hasn't had good donuts since roughly 2004.

[Anonymous No.11446581]

Capitalism.

[Anonymous No.11446599]

who here /mmmuffins/?