Greggs or Tim Hortons?
 

From a column in today's guardian:
Greggs for me. :nod:

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Never heard of it. Overloaded with cinnamon presumably?

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But don't they have both in the UK?

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There are 21 Tim,s in the UK, majority in Scotland. For a coffee and Do-nut i would choose Tim,s every time but for something more substantial to eat i would choose Gregg,s, their steak bake is excellent.

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In that case they can send Greggs over to us. Fair swap.

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Exactly - I don't see that Greggs and Tim Hortons are in competition with each other, even aside from the fact that there is almost no geographic overlap.

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2010 = Tim Hortons
2019 = Greggs (assuming the quality hasn't nosedived like Timmies since I left)

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Neither.

Prefer coffee shops.

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That vegan one is being talked about a lot, but to me it seems like what's the point. With a real sausage roll at least you are getting some meat with the unhealthy pastry, but with a vegan one it's just some ground up mush and unhealthy pastry. What kind of food is that ?!

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Greggs all the way. Tim Hortons is prison food

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Greggs all day and twice on a Sunday!

Tim Horton's does nothing well.

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Tim's is a place of last resort for me. Nothing in that place is what I would call good, they can't even make a donut taste good.

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Such as...

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Great for people (like me) that doesn't like pork

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Their donuts are pretty cheap compared to Cartems, Dunkin and Krispy Kreme

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Cafe Nero, Starbucks, and independents. Not a fan of Costa, though sometimes. I quite liked that JJ Beans one in Vancouver.

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But they don't taste good. lol

Duffin's has the best I have found in Vancouver, never been to Cartems, no idea how they taste, Krispy Kreme are not great, okay but not great.

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Costa is the worst! Can't stand their coffee. Blenz is good for tehb hot chocolates

That is an opinion, I dont even know where else in Vancouver sells decent donuts

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A "frothy coffee" in the Wimpy Bar in Cheltenham was always nice, but that was 50 odd years ago.

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How much was it ?

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Never been to Greggs

Don't like Tim's except in an emergency when tehre is nowhere else, and even then I don't drink their coffee .................. bottle of juice is all.

Much prefer independent coffee shops, and there are hundreds, if not thousands, of them around. All well worth supporting, and with much better coffee and choice of things to eat than any mass-produced food from a chain.

Blenz or Bean Around The World are OK-ish for coffee, not so good for food.

Best 3 in BC?? All have great coffee and delicious food, mostly prepared to order. But NO doughnuts :lol: :thumbup:

Wick's in Vancouver .....
Chartreuse Moose in 100 Mile House
Blue Moose in Hope.

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About 5d

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Are you sure that wasn't some type of code to avoid the moral scorn and legal jeopardy of the times? :lol:

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'Two if by The Sea' in Dartmouth was a good one - awesome almond croissant.

Funnily enough have not really found any decent independent coffee shops in Vancouver or around. Elysian is ok by Cambie and Broadway but I don't know if you class that as a chain.

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Cornish Pasty...any savoury pie...sausage rolls...guess which one I'm voting for? Canadian pastry always looks anemic...

Now you've got me thinking hard about food and I've got salad tonight:unsure:

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If you're ever in Ottawa, this place has the best almond croissant I've ever had in Canada.

MENU – La Maison du Kouignamann

My favourite of all time was in Nice

https://goo.gl/maps/PSHb9KELTFx

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I agree Two If By The Sea is good ....... though I haven't tried the almond croissant ........... one of the many things I can't eat!

I haven't heard of Elysian

Have you tried Caffe Artigiano? It's a small chain started in Vancouver, think most (if not all) of their ca 20 locations are in Metro. I think their first one was the one on Hornby Street, next to the Hotel Vancouver.

The Other Paw Bakery Cafe is good if you're ever in Jasper, or the SnowDome Coffee bar in the laundromat, again in Jasper.

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I thought you were going to include Waitrose with the free Guardian. :lol:

Do you remember the chocolate bowler?
It was a bit like this brown derby

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...17ffd0cbf4.jpg
Doughnut with a hole filled with ice cream - firm not whipped - and chocolate sauce.

And that weird thing they did with a sausage

https://cimg8.ibsrv.net/gimg/british...db5338eac5.jpg

Wimpy Bars were fantastic. We had an alternative office Christmas dinner in one once cos the price of the one in the canteen was outrageous.

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Yes, plenty of free Waitrose coffees consumed !! I didn't get very far with the free newspaper thing, as they would invariably lie around the house being unread. It's just so much easier to consume digital media these days.

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Too risky to drop it down the toilet though. :ohmy:

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Yeah I have a Tim's just over the road from my building and at best I'll go there once every other month.

Gregg's does some solid food items that are well priced.

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No contest, Greggs every time......in both choice and value...at least that was the case back in the day......

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Gregg's, schmeggs.

Surprised so many seem to like this chain. Perhaps it's expat nostalgia. What items do you like from there?

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There are WHAT?! If there's one in London I'm taking a trip immediately.

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There doesn't seem to be any in London. I was in Belfast on Saturday and funny enough they have 2 there.

https://timhortons.co.uk/find-a-tims.php

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I'm just going to throw Bird's Bakery into the mix. Far superior to Gregg's. And anyone who spells Horton like that needs a good slap :p

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Crikey, more than I thought.

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I think one could sum it up as stuff made with pastry. :lol:
I'll go further and say individual ones that you can buy hot and snack on, probably having something different every day for a month or just enjoying your favourites.