Why do Canadians online seem to hate Tim Hortons?

3rr4tt1c

Maybe I’m just too chronically online, but people seem to complain a lot more about Tim Hortons than other fast food places. Even though they have a lot of the same issues.

Edit: I guess I have bad taste in fast food. I like Tims ‍️. I think the prices are reasonable for fast food, and their stuff tastes better than mcDonalds. I don’t drink coffee much so I can’t compare to other places. I can get why people don’t like the company itself though.

kethali@lemmy.ca

Personally, I think their coffee is disgusting and tastes like dirt poured into a cup. As for other people’s hate, no idea.

nosavingthrow@lemmy.world

Idk, man, because anything mass produced has a high likelihood of sucking ass?

glibg@lemmy.ca

Cuz it used to be great, but due to capitalism it has grown worse and worse over time. I mean, I eat and drink there because I am also a slave to convenience but it’s not “good” like it once was.

tribblesbestfriend@startrek.website

Because Tim Hortons is the Burger King of Canada, after all they merge …

At the Beginning Tim Horton (the hockey player) started a pretty decent Dunkin Donuts like restaurant but at some point his actioneers oust him and he died without money for what he build. Now Tim Horton’s at this time was still something okay I guess, in Montreal language watchdogs asked Tim Horton’s to comply with French Language Law which they refuse and transforme the Tim Horton’s to Tim Hortons (because now it’s a name I guess).

Like you can see they always were shitty corporate citizen

Somewhere in the 2010s McDonald Canada tried to stole their market parts with better coffee and donuts. They partially succeeded because Tim Hortons at the time did great pub to bolster patriotic sentiment (they appears in How I met Your Mother after all). Since then they never really tried to be better and after that they merged with Burger King

grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works

Cause outsiders (since you mentioned online) associate Tim Hortons with Canadians, and it’s seen as a Canadian symbol.

But they are way too corporate with low quality products to be Canadian, it pretty much screams Americanization.

canconda@lemmy.ca

Yea because around the time McCafe rolled out in Canada Tim Hortons switched to roasting their coffee inhouse while McDonalds had their supplier create a similar blend to the old tim hortons coffee.

sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works

It sold out to a multinational organization becoming non Canadian owned before changing their coffee, all their baked goods, and rebranding as a bit of a psuedo upscale fast food provider.

What was a chill, decent coffee spot with some in house baked good swapped out for just another resteraunt with coffee that served frozen factory made baked goods that are dry, tasteless, overpriced, and boring.

Quality dropped, nolonger Canadian owned, vibe changed entirely, price went up.

Tims shouldn’t sell pizza, or fifty different lunch items. It shouldn’t be a cheaper upscale caffe, it shouldn’t be in competition with starbucks or McDonalds let alone both. But that’s what it is now.

Jay

Yup, it sucks. Used to be pretty good but they switched suppliers, now it tastes like crap. Macdonalds now has their old supplier (but doesn’t use the specific blend) and is way better than the tar they used to sell.

lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca

Because it’s awful processed chain restaurant “food”?

someone@lemmy.ca

I think it’s a combination of their consistent and obvious decline in quality, combined with the fact that most people in this country have been regular customers for at least some period of their life. Very few fast food chains are as widespread and common in small communities (McDonald’s and subway come to mind). I don’t remember any other fast food chains getting worse almost overnight, but I do remember Tim’s switching to much worse bread on their sandwiches, and their donuts going from fresh, to frozen but decorated, to whatever you call the attempted smearing of nearly solid “icing” on top. Are other chains any better? I can’t say for sure, but I can say Tim’s at any previous point in history was.

ArxCyberwolf

They’re not Canadian anymore, they’re not fresh, and the crap they serve is a shallow imitation of what they once were. The business that was started by Tim Horton himself died long ago, another victim of multinational corporations that fuck everything up in the name of profit.

lulzagna@lemmy.world

Because it was sold to American mega corps and the quality was driven into the ground by cutting every corner possible resulting in the worst products I’ve ever tasted.

spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works

I think Canadians may be accustomed to much better fast food than we generally have in the U.S. Their restaurants may not be nearly as good as they once were, but compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca

Didn’t McDonald’s outbid Timmy’s and get their actual supplier, and that’s why McDonald’s coffee taste like Timmy’s used to?

9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works

wow. that explains why i shifted to McD’s coffee around 2010

9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works

It sold out to a multinational organization becoming non Canadian

and yet they continue to market themselves as an essential part of the fabric of canadian culture, and people eat it all up

kethali@lemmy.ca

Whatever the reason, McCafe coffee is pretty good. I used to buy it for making at home until it jumped prices from 21.97 to 25.97 to 29.97 over a few weeks. Just a few years ago it was around 15.97.

Coffee prices in general have spiked recently though.

masterspace@lemmy.ca

Creeping decline in quality due to capitalism + using Canada as their identity created a strong backlash from others who identified as Canadian but didn’t identify with creeping decline.

Them selling out to a non Canadian company, and continuing to use Canadian identity to market themselves, then provoked even more intense backlash.

It’s not just the reaction to being attacked by the undead, it’s the reaction to being attacked by an undead friend.

InEnduringGrowStrong

compared to what’s available in SoCal, Tim Hortons is gourmet food.

Woah, this idea fills me with a vague sense of dread.
Like seriously, I’d rather eat pretty much anything other than Tim’s. What options are even there then?
Wet Cardboard Express?
Get-Outta-here burger?

Wandering Adventure Party

Why do Canadians online seem to hate Tim Hortons?