For all you irrational Starbucks haters out there: There are four times as many Tim Hortons per capita in Canada as there are Starbucks in the U.S.
Yet no one talks about Tim Hortons as a sign of corporate greed/social arrogance/creeping conformity/blah blah blah.
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11 March | 10:49 | Tam
Two reasons:
A) You don't mess with the memory of a man who has won the Stanley Cup 4 times. (http://www.hockeysandwich.com/thorton.html)
B) Their coffee is way better than Starbucks!
11 March | 20:13 | james
my friend neil, who is a real canadian like me (nay, more canadian, since he lives in frigid Winnipeg) has a hilarious rant about how bad Tim Horton's coffee is. Look here: http://www.beatnikpad.com/archives/2004/03/05/000753.php
18 March | 9:18 | ckstern
i swear, until i read the link i thought Tim Horton was just a person. Never heard of the chain (but how could the coffee be worse than Starbucks?)
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