About the Coffee..

[pjjjjj]

Being in the US for the past couple of days, I was concerned about missing my Canadian fix for our great Tim Horton's coffee.. and was very impressed with.. McDonald's, of all places! Apparently they've stepped up their coffee offerings over the past few years, and it's darn good! Thought I'd share

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Mickys ain't so bad anymore and T/A has stepped up theres as well...love the TA cups..very sturdy.
I like the International Cream and Mickys or the J don't have it...so wally world sells by the box the individual ones that don't need refridgerated...a little pricey that way but MY coffee is worth it...
I do miss my Canadian Timmys...the US version is alittle different.

 

[greg334]

You know speaking about the difference, I noticed a big difference in the coffee on different sides of the boarder. I had McDonald's off the bridge in Windsor, then some from TH in Toronto. it was both very good (but you got to do something about the cup size, a super large is the size of our small cup, what's up with that?)

On the return trip, I had TH and McDonalds, again both good, but I finished my TH after I got off the BW bridge (actually some 50 miles off the bridge) and stopped at the TH near my home and it was horrible, I let the cats finish it. The same with McDonald's I had on my way out of the state, I switched to tea since.

So what do the great white north add to the coffee, please don't say yellow snow.

 

[moose]

I'm very picky about my coffee , and have always made the coffee in the truck.
i have 2 kinds.
one is a dark grounded Turkish coffee that is keeping me up, it is bitter , extremely strong and being serve in very small amounts.
you can get it just about everywhere in NYC.
the other one i get for free (don't ask...) in a year supply , its being shipped to me from Germany , and tastes great , just like an upgrade tasters-choice...served with milk.(a Coffee with milk is not a coffee-latte !!! )
i have yet to find a good consistence source of coffee at any truck stop.
and am boiling the water ... the hot water at the truck stop are hot ...not boiled .




Moose.

 

[OntarioVanMan]

TH in Canada has 4 sizes Greg where the US has only 3...

Canada has a 10oz cup then a medium which is equal to the US small I used to go into a US TH's and order a large double double and kept getting the extra large....a medium double double here is a large double double up in Canada.

they prolly have a different coffee supplier down...

I heard it the US coffee that been added to...the little known Passive American Coffee Act...passed in secret...a chemical that dulls the neurons and thought processes, resulting in diminished voting capacities and the ability to reason.

 

[pjjjjj]

So what do the great white north add to the coffee, please don't say yellow snow.

Funny you should ask! I SWEAR they put MSG in their coffee.. becuz:
i)it is definitely addictive
ii)there is some kind of preservative thing in it, I swear.. becuz if you have a coffee from ANYwhere else, and it sits for a couple or a few hours, it develops a circle on the cup, from the cream sitting there.. yes, gross.. but with TH coffee, this doesn't seem to develop until about 24 hours later..
I never usually get to drink my whole cup at one time, so I nuke it later.. and it's still good.. whereas if I do that ANYwhere else, it's just disgusting.

MSG has both the addictive and preserving qualities.. so that's my theory and I'm stickin to it!

And yes, ask for XL next time, it is 20oz. I'm sure they're using the same coffee on both sides of the border tho.. but you know.. the employees.. even tho they've dumbed it down and it's virtually impossible to screw anything up, I'm sure there still exists room for employee error.. like not pitching the pot after 20 minutes, like they're supposed to.. or putting the wrong thing in your coffee, or whatever. It's not always the same everywhere, everytime, even tho that's what they strive for.

 

[greg334]

Well it may be MSG but then I would get a headache... oh must be that special Great Northern MSG

OVM,
So TH small is our child size, the medium is our small and the large is our medium but then you have a extra large double double which is the size of a 24 oz flying J cup?

So confusing, must be a metric thing.

I remember being in Paris on the tarmac at the Le Bourget air port and having coffee there. They gave us some sort of 6 oz cup that they called big with the most putrid tasting coffee that I ever had. Just thinking about makes my stomach hurt.

I wonder what the Canadians would do if I went into TH with my 64 oz super duper speedway mug, declare war? consider it smuggling?

 

[OntarioVanMan]

Well it may be MSG but then I would get a headache... oh must be that special Great Northern MSG

OVM,
So TH small is our child size, the medium is our small and the large is our medium but then you have a extra large double double which is the size of a 24 oz flying J cup?

So confusing, must be a metric thing.

I remember being in Paris on the tarmac at the Le Bourget air port and having coffee there. They gave us some sort of 6 oz cup that they called big with the most putrid tasting coffee that I ever had. Just thinking about makes my stomach hurt.

I wonder what the Canadians would do if I went into TH with my 64 oz super duper speedway mug, declare war? consider it smuggling?

Is that a Canada TH or US TH??? The DHS would getcha ya!!!

 

[pjjjjj]

I remember being in Paris on the tarmac at the Le Bourget air port and having coffee there. They gave us some sort of 6 oz cup that they called big with the most putrid tasting coffee that I ever had. Just thinking about makes my stomach hurt.

Would that have been espresso?

 

[greg334]

No it wasn't espresso, it was French muck. I told the story to one of my French co-workers at the pharma company and she were rolling on the floor laughing at me, she would not tell what the joke was.

OVM, I am talking about a Canada, they would call out the RCMP on me.