Well this is the perfect news for me. At least 11 Dunkin' Donuts have closed down in Manhattan and has made way for a another, more northern taste. Now most Americans wouldn't know too much about this doughnut chain but for us Canadians, its mark of our heritage, a place so deeply ingrained into our cultural consciousness that it's as popular as hockey. I am talking about the one, the only Tim Hortons.
What?
Tim Hortons began as a simple doughnut shop founded by: you guessed it, Tim Horton, a reknowned Canadian hockey player. It's a story of small humble beginnings, fame and ultimately tragedy. Hell, even I wouldn't believe this story if someone told me a hockey player started one of the largest franchises in Canadian history. It's too stereotypically good to be true.
If it does well in New York and those other more northern american cities, hopefully, it would spur the opening of the restaraunts to a more southern location. I'm not blasting Dunkin' Donuts, even though they spell DOUGHNUT wrong, it just doesnt't have the comfy feeling that Tim Hortons has, but again, I am biased.
One of the first things that I do whenever I land my ass back home in Vancouver is to eat my ass off. That's right, despite all the junk that permeates American diets, even the Canadian crap tastes better even if it's an American franchise. I cross off all those awesome chinese restaraunts, fast food chains such as White Spot (B.C. thing), Dairy Queen, A&W, Boston Pizza, and of course the very Canadian Tim Hortons.
I don't care what people say and what their taste in fast food chain dougnut shops are. To me, there is only one, and I await the day where I don't have to fly all the way back to Vancouver to nab me some of those Timbits. C'mon, come over to California I need my doughnut fix...
Always fresh, Always Tim Hortons...
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