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Tim Hortons in the Rockies.

            In Canada they drink coffee like we English drink tea. The only liquid to rival its consumption out here is gasoline.

Tim Horton's is the quintessential Canadian coffee chain. For those of you who (like me) don't know, he was a famous ice hockey player. Despite the vastness, and in many cases remoteness of this country you are guaranteed to never be more than 5 minutes from the nearest Timmy Ho's. (5 minutes driving of course).

Despite my sarcastic tone I actually quite like Tim Horton's. Well, it's much better than Starbucks anyway, mostly becuase it is less pretentious and it's unique to Canada. Each outlet also stocks a huge selection of donuts, and I have to admit developing a fondess for cinnamon buns. I eat one daily to coincide with one of my 5 cups of coffee.

NB: When ordering Candians will walk up to the counter and use a special code: A popular combination is "large double double" which means: large coffee (and that means large), double cream, and double sugar. The other day I heard somebody ask for a "triple triple", so they must have invented triple cream as well. I guess our truck driver Daryl would have ordered a "large quadrupel double" or something like that, but I haven't figure out which comes first in the code - the cream or the sugar.

Just in case you are wondering I have a small (sometimes medium) with milk (not cream) and one sugar.

Taken on: September 5, 2006

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