One of the things that I hate with a white hot passion in this world are paper straws. I don’t even like to look at them. And now Tim’s has made them a central part of a massive full saturation ad campaign. I see them everywhere.
BTW- All I care about is the food and it’s been going downhill since my childhood. Paper straws don’t make a stale donut taste any better.
Not a problem for me, I never eat at Tims anymore. The food is inedible AND expensive, the coffee is bad, the service is slow.
A paper straw isn’t going to change that, as far as I can see.
Also I hate corporate virtue signalling, so they can pretty much cram their straws.
Exactly.
Vote with your wallets, folks.
It’s the only language these companies understand.
They sure don’t understand “woke-ism.”
Good news for them. The straws will get flaccid and collapse moments after insertion.
This is interesting to me because the only people who still enjoy Tim’s are 50+ year old labourers who’ve been trapped in a strict daily routine for 20 years. Not exactly the type of people who would care about paper straws.
Snobs say the same thing about MacDonalds, then send their Nanny or Doordash to pick-up several #4 Big Mac meals. How do I know? I watch my upper, upper, middle class, woke, millennial, health food enthusiasts do that very same thing.
The drive thru in my local MacDonalds spills out into the Main Street every noon and supper times. Been that way ever since COVID.
Yeah the difference is that McDonald’s food and coffee is edible. Also they don’t spend millions in advertising to brainwash Canadians into thinking that eating at a crappy Brazilian owned restaurant everyday is a treasured part of our culture.
I thought ALL Canadians ate halal?
andrew , you leftist asshole always prove how stupid you are, you should stay OFF the net and do yerself a favour. McDonald’s coffee IS Tim’s coffee. McD bought the Tim’s old formula a long time ago, IDIOT
Have you ever in your life even entertained the possibility that you could be wrong about something?
McD’s coffee is the best, better than its predecessor Tims was, I figure it’s the fact that the cups are brown not red.
Besides, I don’t get much faux patriotism from behind 6 inches of acrylic as it’s passed into my outstretched arm.
Off course the coffee could be hotter but there’s that whole crotch burning thing from 1/2 a century ago.
3G and Buffet destroyed burger King and made Tims worse and I didn’t think that was possible.
In Aussieland here, I’ve always found Maccas ‘coffee’ to be as awful as Nestle’s ‘International Roast’, a brew so vile as to be almost undrinkable, and so disgusting that the Nestle logo on its canisters is almost microscopic as if in deserved shame…
But Maccas café-style coffees (and mochas) are great!!!
https://www.healthing.ca/wellness/tim-hortons-enters-hall-of-shame-for-chemical-use
“Twelve major companies — including the multinational that owns Tim Hortons — have been added to the toxic chemical “Hall of Shame” for failing to adequately address some of the harmful substances found in their products.”
“Starbucks, Subway, 7-Eleven, Sally Beauty, Publix, Nordstrom, Ace Hardware and 99 Cents Only Stores also made the toxic list, as did Alimentation Couche-Tard, the operator of thousands of convenience stores in Canada, the U.S. and a host of other countries.”
I will admit the current straws they are pedaling are a step up from the ones I had access to 60 years ago but they do not come close to a plastic straw….. and environment be damned I want them back.
Paper straws used to be the standard, back in the day, before they were superseded by plastic. But they were waxed paper, and held up OK, as far as I can remember.
If combustible waste like paper and plastic were to be collected, and burned in the boilers of steam power plants, we could make those products work for us twice, which would be a net benefit to humanity, and might even save one sea turtle per century.
But that would be too simple, wouldn’t it?
Yes, I remember paper straws years ago. They were not the crap with a gawdawful taste that are being used now. Those from years ago even had thinner walls and didn’t resemble rolled up cheap box liners.
Sweden burns ask their trash. Couldn’t get a permit for it now this side of Singapore.
Get woke, go broke.
Can’t happen too soon.
A&W gave me a paper straw with a milkshake. As you may have guessed that doesn’t really work very well.
As for Tims, I get that it is fast, dirt cheap and ubiquitous but beyond that I’ve never understood people’s devotion to the brand. To each their own.
Oh, and A&W gives you that paper straw so that you can punch it through the hole in the PLASTIC lid that caps the drink.
I found a large pack of plastic straws at the dollar store last year. When me and the wife go for our monthly A&W treat, drive through, we bring our plastic straws. I also take the paper ones they give you, and just throw them away, along with the plastic lid on the crappy pop.
Oh, and you can rinse out the plastic straws and use them again.
In short, I have a lifetime supply of reusable plastic straws, so, like A&W, I am helping the planet.
Wait?! What?!?! You didn’t buy a stainless steel or silicone reusable straw that you can wash after you use it?!?!?!
/sarc
BTW…I worked for a retailer a few years ago who sold reusable straws and I couldn’t believe how many people bought them. $10 for a pack of three.
For most of last year I was given a paper straw for a 7-11 Slurpee. It did not work for beans and luckily I kept plastic Slurpee straws at home to use. When I went back in April after a winter hiatus they gave me a plastic straw. It still suck that they have the cups behind the counter because of COVID and can’t use the reusable cups because of COVID for some reason. At least they ditched the paper straws.
Yeah, as a kid straws were waxed paper. They also made great mini-bangalore torpedoes with the home-made salt peter & sugar mix, with a firecracker at the end. Disposed of lots of old models that way.
I ran into that yesterday, and just threw out the Tim’s straw because I had a much more useful plastic one from McDonald’s hanging around in the car…
Sometimes when you are on the job site you don’t have a lot of choices
Really timmies and a an dub…… why stop at straws? Isn’t your entire menu served on waste? Try shutting down.
Now THAT would help the environment you are so woke fully trying to save
And, dollars to donuts, they’re probably made in China. I’ve tried to find paper straws NOT made there. No luck.
We can’t have plastic straws because the Chinese dump their garbage in the ocean.
“We can’t have plastic straws because the Chinese dump their garbage in the ocean.”
THIS.
Exactly this. Everyone knows (or should know) that over 95% of all plastics in our oceans come out of just 10 rivers in Asia. I don’t care if it’s plastic straws or plastic bags, I only know that *mine* never end up in the ocean.
Timmy’s is a progressive Brazilian owned corporation.
It’s as Canadian as Tequila.
My last Tim’s coffee was a month ago, and don’t know when I will return. Used to be a weekly visitor, but no more
I haven’t visited a Hortons since their anti-oil bullshit with respect to Ft.McMurray some time ago.
They can all go to hell along with their cheap ass paper straws and weak ass coffee.
If you’re a conservative and frequent the place…they effing hate you. You should know that.
Stop putting money in the jeans of those who have nothing but utter contempt for you.
Let the SJW twinks fill their pockets.
“I haven’t visited a Hortons since their anti-oil bullshit with respect to Ft.McMurray some time ago.”
Same here. Since then I was all out of fucks to give.
I too stopped being a Timmies customer when they pulled the anti-oil crap (about 4 years ago, I think).
Starbucks is no alternative either.
It appears most of the chain operations are playing the Woke/Green/Diversity virtue signalling game. These corporations will bend over backwards to avoid any controversy to every SIG that exists, except for People Eating Tasty Animals
The last time I bought anything at a Tim’s was when I sold one of my father’s machines. The buyer sent one of his employees to pick it up and, after we got it loaded onto his truck, I bought lunch for the guy. There’s a Tim’s within 10 minutes walk from my house in B. C., so I thought that was as good a place to go as any.
I wasn’t particularly impressed by the food. Then again, what’s available at those places hasn’t been outstanding for years.
Anyone who thinks that plastic straws from North America are a problem is an idiot who can’t do simple arithmetic or use Google.
Anyone who thinks internal combustion engines are a problem is an idiot who can’t do simple arithmetic or use Google.
Anyone who uses Google is an idiot. :p
If a single one of my (personal use) plastic straws EVER made it to a sea turtle’s eyeball … it would have been one mutha fkcuah of a “magic straw” crossing oceans, time zones, and hemispheres to find a sea turtle to harm. More magical than a bullet fired by LH Oswald
I still buy their crap, once or twice a year. Whenever someone say they are helping to save the planet, a large part of me wants to strike a pose, with my fist up in the air, and its trajectory hitting the “planet saver” in the jaw about 33% through the punch’s trajectory, while yelling “I AM CAPTAIN PLANET!!!”. Sadly, I was brought up to consider this is rude behavior.
I was under the impression the great plastic straw hysteria was over. What a stupid age we live in.
It is just getting started.
“ Tim’s for Good “ .
That’s not good enough Tim Hortons. You better start conspicuously laying on the hate for anyone who doesn’t toe the woke line or you’re all racists. DO IT!
My wife is hooked on IceCaps but the paper straws fall apart before reaching the end of the drink. We have taken to keeping plastic straws in the car. So much for “saving the planet” nonsense.
Please, don’t anyone forget, all this ‘plastic straws are killing the environment’ bullshit was based on 100% fake news in the first place and then pushed anyways by virtue-seeking ecotards and their media enablers.
IMO, companies who ignore millions of customers’ most basic needs in favor of a few activists’ stupid demands deserve to be punished. Actually, I would like to see a public ecology study from Tims on how much plastic straws supposedly affect the environment vs the millions of idling cars in their frigging drive-thrus.
I have sometimes wondered how many ‘donations’ to eco-groups it has taken for Tims to keep it’s drive-thrus off the warming activists radar. I am guessing, a lot.
But didn’t you see the sad video of a sea turtle who died because it thought a plastic straw was dinner and it suffocated after it ingested it? It was VERY disturbing.
/sarc
When you pander to the segment of the woke crowd, that can’t afford Starbucks, you wrote your own bankruptcy filing.
“Alice” wander here from The Toronto Star?
I do enjoy a good milkshake and fruit smoothies. Like those bubble tea things with the mango balls. It takes a lot of sucking to get through a large one. I can’t imagine I will enjoy that with a paper straw. I suppose I could stage a photo of a Canadian Turtle with a half digested paper straw sticking out of it’s Ass. …might derail the whole paper straw movement.
Wish I could say i was quitting Tim’s over paper straws, but I’ve been avoiding them for years. Just like A&W. Peddling woke hormone free beef, veggie burgers, or shameful canadianism has kept me sufficiently distanced from those cesspools. Support local whenever I can.
Tim Hortons owned by —–>Burger King – owned by —-> Brazil’s “3G” in partnership with Berkshire Hathaway and restructured as “Restaurant Brands International”.
Who are major investors in Berkshire Hathaway and Warren Buffet’s dividend stock portfolio not to mention George Soros Fund Management among others?
The Ontario Teachers Pension Fund with assets totalling over $200 billion. Yeah, you read that right…BILLION.
See how it works?
Horton’s management doesn’t just wake up one morning and decide “paper straws are the way to go”. Uh uh…those with the money call the tune.
“Customers” have the money. Reduce the number of customers, reduce the revenue. Vote with your wallets.
Tim’s has made it an industry, to import Philipinos to work for them.
Yes, it’s cheaper labour.
The kids got to know a few of them a few years ago. Don’t knock them they work their behind’s off, more than many other imports
The food was never good.
You just grew up and stopped liking food made of sugar and grease.
Our masters never go to Tim’s. You joking? After they return from their morning jogs, they have the house girl make them real coffee and a nourishing breakfast that won’t take twenty years off the life of someone who eats it daily.
This is the sort of testicular-carrying bovine creature natural deposit that diverts attention from more important issues. You don’t like a particular coffee shop? Then don’t go there. End of act-of-reproduction-stated-in-a-vulgar-way story.
You remember those antique shows where they show great-grandpappy’s silver handled sword-cane-six gun personal defense walkin’stick.
How about a silver handled straw cane (add barrels as necessary) for both hydration and repelling Timmie’s protesters here at the end of our golden age.
Might help you move up to the head of infinity line faster.
This reminds me, today I was 86000th in line for a vaccine booking, when I got to the front of the line I ordered a double-double.
One of the BIGGEST CONs is the SCREEChing about plastic in our OCEANS..!!! (and the utter Bullshit that Plastic Straws and Plastic Grocery bags are killing our Oceans)
REALITY is this: 85% of the plastic everyone freaks about first off, comes from the major rivers in ASIA.
REALITY is that OVER FISHING is a Bigger Issue..DRAG netting & the systematic Murder of thousands of Dolphins by the Japanese (they consider Dolphins COmPETiTioN) and numerous other ASIAN Fishing Practises …. including Slavery.
ASIA consumes the majority of the fish pulled from our oceans.
AND of all the oceans plastic, 48.5% comes from discarded FISHING GEAR that continues to kill fish all on its own. If things do not change – the Ocean Bioshpere will DISiNTIGRATE by 2048.
Have a WATCH…this is one of the FEW Environmental Films I will ever endorse.
AN EYEOPENER…!!
SEASPIRACY
https://www.netflix.com/ca/title/81014008