The bus I used to take to work was routinely blocked by the line of SUVs waiting to turn left into a Tim Hortons attached to a petrol station. My thought was shit transit, held up by shit cars, waiting to buy shit coffee.

I really like their steeped tea (as it is impossible to get a decent, really hot cup o'tea anywhere else) and breakfast sandwhich. I like that it's so bad. I like being able to drive up & get it. I am lazy.

What's the Manchester equivalent?

I see the coffee snobs are out in full force.

The coffee is shit but its more than that, its a depressing chain of places with a depressing post-modern ubiquity.

And these aren't even the "good" donuts they used to make. There was a bit uproar back in--what was it, circa 2005--when they stopped making them (and frying them) on site and said they'd be baking pre-made donuts shipped to outlets instead. I noticed the difference right away. That said, it doesn't seem to have hurt their sales and everyone still eats them.

Yeah, you appreciate it when you move to Australia. Try going to Muffin Break and getting two kids' juices, two muffins, a coffee, and a sandwich for around the $10 mark. That order would run closer to AUD$20 here.

They have toilets. That's the only reason I ever go into one, unless my brother is over. Then we have to go, so he can nick some more mugs.

Dude going into MacDonalds and asking for a salad is like going to a hooker and asking for a hug.

I went in one once because it shared a building with a Wendy's (Wendy's may give this thread new legs), and went right instead of left when I wasn't paying attention.

Not a coffee or tea drinker so I'll probably never frequent the places. Certainly not living in the UK

I do recall walking into some outpost of Tim Hortons just near Leicester Square. Obviously I left quickly and went for a pint.

A rather old thread but for the UK residents who think they are missing out on a Timmies you can look at the following, I cant find a more updated version

http://www.canadian-expats.com/forum...php?f=45&t=150

I don't know if it's true or not but I heard that, in Calgary, the Tim Horton's on Bow Trail (near Westbrook Mall) was closed down by the cops because the lineups were causing massive problems with the traffic on Bow Trail.

The premises are now a Mr Lube, so one could argue that commuters now have tastier brown sludge available.

This actually surprised me as in busiest

Its busiest branch is located in Yellowknife, Northwest Territories; prior to its November 2010 expansion into Nunavut,[18] it was also its northernmost store

Can I ask what you guys stick in your perculator/coffee machine at home? Best we've found so far is NABOB full cosmopolitan.