“We introduced a plant-based protein as a limited time offer and to test the interest of our guests in having this alternative available. Ultimately, the product was not embraced by our guests as we thought it would be. We may offer plant-based alternatives again in the future, but we have removed it from the menu for now.” – Tim Hortons spokesperson
Is there nothing that Tim Horton’s can’t do.
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VANCOUVER – “Researchers at the A&W Centre for
Theoretical Food at the University of British Columbia
were found yammering incoherently after piercing
the scientific veil and briefly seeing what lies beyond
‘Beyond Meat’.”
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What lies Beyond Meat? Salt. Lots and lots of salt. Enough sodium to stop the healthiest of hearts.
From the link:
“Impossible Foods has won a climate award from the United Nations”
Whoop de doo.
I can’t imagine a more useless award from an even more useless bunch of people.
If Mao were still alive, I suspect he would get a UN Climate award for murdering 80 million people. The UN is very much like the CBC. Only blind and sick societies allow such insidious organizations to suck resources at gun point from productive people.
Did Iran get one for lowering the carbon footprint of Canada when they shot down that jet?
Air travel, is literally, THE WORST! So let’s thank our austere religious scholar friends for taking care of that.
I don’t eat soy products. I can’t be a soy boy because I can’t find sexy panties big enough to fit me.
Hmmm, what’s the word I’m looking for… uhhh… was it, ummm…
– Oh yeah! “Shocked.” (-_-)
I wonder what they are doing with all that ‘plant’ food parading as meat?
Watching ads from A&W & etc., – just won’t eat anything from these places now as they are hard core pushing this stuff, claiming they can fool anyone – so we don’t eat from these places, not trusting that if we order beef, we’d be given the plant based stuff instead, after all they claim they can fool us; and they can’t sell this stuff otherwise.
During the NFLD snow storm; someone tweet out a picture of a grocery store isle, whole thing was empty – except for the vegan food section – it was still well stocked, lol.
Here’s an idea for Timmy’s – advertise your coffee as plant-based. That way you stick to your strengths and get to virtue signal. Win, win.
“advertise your coffee as plant-based.”
Ha! Post of the day award!
My son is a chef and at his place they introduced the Beyond Meat burgers and there too they aren’t selling well and likely will be off the menu soon. His opinion was that the burger doesn’t taste bad but it doesn’t taste like a good burger. Most sales are to curious folks trying them and never to repeat.
Beyond Meat is the Pet Rock of the food industry.
I’ll have the beyond meat burger with free range mayo sauce, organic tomato, ethically sourced pickle on a non GMO ciabatta bun and an extra large side of pretentiousness.
@Stewart Pid
I tried the Timmy’s Beyond meat burger. Just once.
It had some sort of spice in it that was totally off putting for me.
Timmy went beyond doughnut years ago and they still sell the bits of lard, pre frozen and sweetly sickening.
These company’s would do well to remember Pabtz Blue Ribbon beer.The number one selling beer in the USA. The directors looked at the advert, expenses and said why spend this much on advertising as everybody knows our product.So they slashed the budget and sales did not change for six months,then the bottom dropped out and the brand never recovered.
PBR is well known by three letters, better than a schlogan, advert, whatever.
Kinda like Schlitz, Old Milwaukee, Lucky, Pil, us deplorables appreciate a bargain.
Marketing does nothing for taste.
Every time there is a food scare ‘food’ made in a petri dish becomes suspect. Why bother.
As for Horton’s, every decision they have made in the past 5 years blew up in their face. They are the quintessential Canadian company?
A donut chain? Arrrugh
Quintessential Brazilian company, actually.
And most of the coffee drinkers in the office get theirs from Rotten Ronnie’s now.
Cut / paste
On August 26, 2014, Burger King agreed to purchase Tim Hortons for US$11.4 billion; the chain became a subsidiary of the Canadian holding company Restaurant Brands International, which is majority-owned by Brazilian investment firm 3G Capital, on December 15, 2014.
Tim’s ditched Mother Parker’s coffee, now this fiasco. BK has been pushing it non stop…. until recently. Perhaps another shoe.
Rotten Ronnie, heh, jumped at the opportunity to source the newly available coffee. A great improvement for them. Perhaps your colleagues made the change unwittingly following Mother Parker’s .
No soy burgers yet at Mickey D’s.
I don’t expect that will happen.
An for good reason.
Better Coffee for certain.
Plus each cup gives you a sticker. 10 stikers and you get a free one.
Timmys is sleazy. You get a credit type card….and even if you order $20.00 worth of coffees, it only counts as 1. Its not the reason I buy McD’s coffee – I simply like it better.
Meatless anything = Cardboard. Not quite at that stage yet….
I like plant-based proteins, particularly peanut butter and baked beans but they are no substitute for meat. Tim Hortons should stay out of politics and either stick to coffee and doughnuts or serve food that has actual flavour.
I’m not opposed to restaurants and grocery stores offering choices. Also from a free choice perspective, I am concerned that choices will be increasingly removed for “meat-arians” (plus nuts, raw fruit, berries and vegetables) like me because I remember when buying green energy from wind and solar started as an optional.
From a health perspective, I remember when the rule of thumb was: the shorter the ingredients list the better, artificial flavors and colors were bad, avoid over-processed food, excess salt was unhealthy, choose low GI food over high GI food. Now it’s “sit back, eat the salt-laden, high GI, heavily processed food and think of planet Earth.” On the positive side, at least it’s not insects like other liberal progressives are pushing as meat alternatives.
Those of us who can hunt and garden might end up being the healthiest people and families in the near future.
“…McDonald’s Canada said it’s expanding its global test of the plant-based burger to 52 restaurants.”
I hope one of those 52 is here in ‘Toon so I’ll have a opportunity to not try it.
Actually, most of the meat I eat is plant-based, but occasionally I’ll eat something made from a carnivore or an omnivore.
All of the meat I eat is plant-based, too. The cows the beef comes from eat grass and grain. The fish eat bugs that eat plants. Or they eat other fish that eat those bugs. Turkeys and chickens are fed plant stuff. Deer and moose and grouse all eat plants. Pigs are fed plant stuff, but I don’t eat pig meat as it makes my arthritis flare up.
From what I understand, Bill Hates and Pope Al Gore are the main investors of this garbage. That would explain the annoying preachy style of the advertising. They use soy boy actors pretending to be normal guys going “ooooh, aaaaah, this is so yummy!” The actors must have been referring to something else in their mouths.
They just needed to advertise better,every “Beyond Meat” piece of crud needs Al Gores smiling face printed on it.
Beyond meat, beyond stupid.
The clientele at Timmy’s isn’t the Soi boi demographic, no surprise that Fake Meat is a fail.
it’s the meat and potatoes crowd. We know they aren’t the cricket, insect and bat crowd……
I suspect it also has to do with the cost of the “Beyond Meat” burger.
I took a look at a package of “Beyond Meat” patties at my local grocery store and, weight for weight, the “Beyond Meat” was 2.5x more expensive than lean ground beef.
I can’t imagine Tim Horton’s swallowing that kind of cost in the pricing of their “Beyond Meat” burgers. So one has to be REALLY dedicated to a meat-less diet to pay that kind of price.
Oh, I tried a Beyond Meat burger and it was all right.
But what I couldn’t get over was that it still cost about as much as a burger made from meat, which seemed entirely counter-intuitive to me.
Shouldn’t it be a given that plant-based food would be cheaper than meat-based? Aren’t we constantly bombarded with claims of how much more wasteful and expensive it is to raise cattle and produce beef?
Well yeah that’s why everyone’s pushing it right now, because hipsters are more than willing to pay a heavy premium for it. It’s definitely less wasteful but also the profit margins must be a night and day difference.
This is not the only such case.
They sell those cute little two-seater cars that are only good for in town driving. Well, still, it may not be a bad thing, low on gas, and easier to find parking when you are running errands. I can see having something like that as a second car. Except …
For getting at most two-thirds the carrying capacity (front seat plus trunk) and more realistically usually half, for what they charge you can buy a low end regular car. So why would you want to buy it?
I am sure more people will buy the veggie burger if they charged say 1/2 or 2/3 a normal burger, just like I am sure more people will buy the two-seaters if they cost half a low end regular car. And that would be what is charged if the manufacturers really care about being “green” as they claim in the ads. But what they see is a great opportunity to make profit, off the true believers of the Gaea cult.
Nobody will eat ersatz plant-based meat until they are forced to, i.e. a Canada crushed by government debt is exporting all real meat fit for human consumption to the Middle Kingdom, leaving Canadians to take advantage of the Maduro diet.
A bit like how it was in Ceausescu’s Romania, except Ceausescu actually managed to pay his country’s debt off and start offering loans to Iran out of the profits reaped from starving his people. (That’s the real reason he was overthrown; global finance didn’t appreciate the competition.) Don’t expect any such competence from Justin or from Peter MacKay.
A Canadian? Is that you? It is, isn’t it?
SWMBO is all in for plant based food products. She made a tofu in an Italian style tomato sauce a couple of nights ago. I said i’d give it a try… unbiased user trial, so to speak.
The sauce was very tasty but the tofu, not so much. It wasn’t terrible but I wouldn’t go back for seconds.
Well duh. The only people who still eat at Tim’s are feeble minded boomers too stuck in their ways to realize they’re drinking garbage water from a Brazilian conglomerate more interested in hijacking Canadian culture than actually producing edible food.
3G is a vulture capital company. They are more interested in grinding their acquisitions to a fine powder to pay back the billions they borrowed to buy them. Quality is apparently too expensive.
Timmies franchisees must be paying the price but seem to be cushioned by tradition, inertia, and misplaced patriotism.
3G reduced Burger King to absolute crap.
Don’t worry our ‘culture’ is safe in the hands of the CRTC and our dear leader Chrystia.
“3G reduced Burger King to absolute crap.”
well finally I find out the truth behind their change in advertising.
had fcuk all to do with an outdated and abondoned ‘king’ halloween costume ‘mascot’ compared to deplorable mgmt strategies.
About a year or two ago A&W tried pushing meatless mush and they got so much flack in the prairies that they withdrew it almost immediatley. I wonder what the next big thing will be, soylent green ?
As the saying goes: “Get Woke, Go Broke”.
Tim Horton’s is crap.
A&W is crap.
McDonald’s is crap.
It’s all pure crap.
Take it from this road warrior: Pull into a supermarket and go to the deli section. Good cheap nutritious food. Great selection. Never crowded nor overrun with the noisy unwashed.
just bought 320 lbs of beef at $4.00 per lb
I tried it. It was terrible.
I see Subway is now selling some form of meat without the meat. Subway is afraid to even touch their own food without protection……
Has Subway ever sold real meat? I recall some stories years back about what they called “chicken” was mostly not chicken.
Denis Leary says it best (NSFW):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgWHUlwUYCo
My grandson works at a Red Robin. He says the vegi-burgers stink to high heaven when being cooked and the list of ingredients is longer than your arm.
Eat the real stuff.
I must be the only vegetarian that is not looking for something that tastes like meat. I can always find something to eat at a fast food place but mostly if we are going out to eat we try to find a place that has options for us all. No one imposes their will on any one else.