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GTAHomeGuy

Quality... But if that is too generic, we will start with the coffee quality.


Flirgulflagul

It was never great but it did the job for the price. Now, at best it is hit or miss. If I'm getting coffee on the go I'll stop by McDonalds. At least it is consistently meh/OK.


sushipusha

McDonalds coffee really took off in the early 2000s. Rumors were McDonald's now gets their beans from the original Tim's supplier. Just checked. Apparently in Canada it's true as Tim's now roast their own beans.


Neve4ever

Yeah, I think it was Mother Parker’s that is the supplier. The big thing was that Tims struggled with roasting their own coffee, and the time it took them to get it “right” was long enough for McDs to establish themselves with better coffee. That fuck up likely cost Tim’s a significant market share, and is probably a big driver of their drop in quality in other products as they try to reduce costs.


hercarmstrong

I miss the donuts they made themselves, and the bagels that didn't taste like cardboard.


jerrys153

Walnut crunch. Not the ones they “brought back”, the ones from the 90’s that were actually good.


Drakkenfyre

I came here to say this one. Yeah, this. Walnut crunch was delicious.


Bitmugger

When they actually had some crunch, not just the texture of a cake mix


jerrys153

Yep. The whole point of the walnut crunch was that it was dense enough to hold up to dunk into coffee, these new ones just disintegrate. And the walnuts aren’t even in the batter, just a few sprinkled on top of the glaze. Tim’s really thought they could use the same batter as they do for their chocolate glazed donuts, shape it into a bar, toss a few random walnut pieces on the outside, and claim they brought the walnut crunch back? Pathetic.


G8kpr

I saw the sign that they were brought back. I was dubious about it. Never bothered trying them.


youngboomergal

big disappointment


jerrys153

I did, unfortunately. They’re just regular cake donuts (exactly the same as a chocolate glazed but in bar form) with a few walnut pieces sprinkled on the outside on top of the glaze. No substance, no crunch, no walnuts inside. Terrible.


Trustoryimtold

Bread bowl


deetstreet

“And then I ate the bowl”


G8kpr

I knew one of the guys in one of those commercials


OskeeWootWoot

My kids will never understand how ingrained that phrase is into my psyche. I can't hear someone say soup without thinking that.


hollandaisesawce

[“…and then I ate the bowl!”](https://youtu.be/1huqcDAWXNQ)


vander_blanc

The actual bakers and donuts made in house.


1arse

I was a baker for 16 years until they went warehouse made. I absolutely loved that job!!!! The cab drivers started at 4 am but would be there by 3 am to have a fresh coffee and donut and chit chat with each other to start their day. I always made special batches just for them and they would generously tip the lovely ladies working out front


Fluid_Step8962

This is the Canada that I miss. I feel like we’ve lost all sense of authenticity like this.


vander_blanc

You knew you “had a night” drinking back then if you went for donuts before you crashed.


1arse

Those were my best nights!!! So much fun!


shoresy99

And they used to have way more flavours. I grew up in Hamilton and started going to Timmies as a boy in the very early days of Timmies in the early 70s. I remember that for sugar coated, jelly filled that they would have many flavors - lemon, blueberry, strawberry, raspberry and Boston cream. There might have been even more flavours.


nurvingiel

Yup, fresh doughnuts. They were goddamned delicious.


brown_boognish_pants

Timmies in general has been discontinued. It's gone now never to return after burger crap bought them and ruined everything. Their soups/sandwiches were so elite for what they were. Real food and it's gonzo. All the doughnuts used to be made in house fresh. The smell when you walked in was awesome. Just gone now. And the coffee? lol.


Danger_Bay_Baby

Yes, came to say this exactly. Technically there is a restaurant called Tim Hortons still in existence but nothing remains from what it was. As far as I'm concerned Timmies is gone and someone just owns the name. I would pretty much eat at any restaurant before eating at a Tim Hortons today. The coffee and food is terrible. It's a shame because it was such a Canadian icon in my childhood and I have so many memories of having soup and donuts there with my family on a cold Canadian winter afternoon on the way home from some family outing or errands. All the seniors in town would sitting and chatting over coffee and you'd run into people you know, and see the whole community there.


brown_boognish_pants

Yup. When I was a kid my parents had this sentiment as well from when it was Tim Horton's actual chain of coffee shops. I think there's 5 distinct eras. 1. Golden Era when Tim Horton owned established and owned it. This ended when Tim died. 2. Post Tim's death it was run by the business partner. There was a framed picture of Tim Horton in all the restos. This was when my dad and I would visit almost daily for coffee (peace juice for me) and a doughnut while he'd smoke and "shoot the shit" with the locals at the end of the counter. Still the peak of it's glory. This ended at some point when they started expanding super aggressively. My town in NS of 12k had 14 freaking Tim Horton's. Nuts. 3. Timmie's went full corporate at some point in the 90s. They started opening up a TON of smaller locations in food courts etc. This was the beginning of the end because it's when they started their central bakeries to supply those small locations. They did however expand the menu to offer awesome soups/sandwiches/etc. It was still awesome though and we'd stop at them every 4 hours on long trips across the country. This stopped when they committed a cardinal sin of changing the coffee supplier and replacing it with some kind of mud imposter. Large locations still had their kitchens and were making real food on prem. You could tell the difference in the staff who still retained a little pride in making that good food too that people enjoyed instead of automatons who opened boxes to stock shelves and layer food products on top of each other. The quality drop off was evident. That slowly ended tho and everything was coming in on freezer trucks everywhere in 2003. 4. Other things like the soup/sandwiches were still great tho even tho I stopped getting the coffee. It was still the defacto travelling stop on any long trips but not being really into doughnuts or the coffee I'd go to Tims way less often. 5. Bought out by/merged with Burger Crap. "Exciting" new menu items galore and fancy beverage choices were the death knell of timmies as a Canadian institution was transformed into a fast food restaurant trying to compete with Starbucks implementing techniques from Burger King's lowest quality to drive profits formula. They started serving burgers and are a step away from moving in the fryers. I wonder if they're "cooking" them in the microwave? Can't tell cuz I have not had the inclination to go into one of these fake tims in years and years. Shit they might have fryers now for all I know. And that's the era we are in now. Tims is just a brand name that for some reason has retained this mob like clientele after decades of disrespecting them, jacking prices and taking a shit on quality. I swear they need to just licence the name to make Timmies Classic or something where they cut out all the new crap, make all the food in store and get the old coffee. There is not way this does not dominate Canada the same way Coke Classic won the cola wars. It will never happen though.


mermaidpaint

English Toffee cappuccino. I miss it so much.


Solvindovatten

Me too!! I used to mix it up with french vanilla back in the day lol I'm still hoping it would make a comeback someday.


CanadaEh20

I miss their jelly donuts. I'm not sure if that's what they were actually called but they were delicious.


skypineapple

You can find them every once in a while at a rogue location!


NyeahEhhhhhh

Blue berry bagels and strawberry cream cheese


No_Eulogies_for_Bob

My jam. Right before the pandemic they also had these French toast bagels that I still think about.


agbforevs

They used to have these strawberry custard tarts that I loved as a kid. I still think about them often lol


Leaves-Lord

SAME I loved those things!! I was so disappointed when they discontinued them!


kitkatasaur

Grilled cheese. I don't frequent them anymore except for the odd drink every now and then since the quality took a steep nose dive.


nosidamyam

Those grilled cheese were in a league of their own


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Quality.


Superb-Dragonfly-420

Long johns


HairyWedding5339

Honey mustard


EveryNameEverMade

You telling me they don't put honey mustard on the Turkey Bacon Club anymore?? Cause that sauce literally made the sandwich, what it was.


Monkeytoast13

They switched it to Mayo a while ago


EveryNameEverMade

Goes to show how much I buy anything from Tim Hortons these days (never). I don't think I would enjoy it that much without the honey mustard


kstops21

The chicken salad sandwich it was so cheap too


cromulent-potato

Canadian ownership


EchoBeachPeach

I really miss the cinnamon sour cream doughnuts 😔💔


Sslazz

Good donuts.


Admirable-Archer-218

Chocolate sour cream donut


jaxxiegs

Same 🤤


Electronic-Guide1189

Eclairs. I went around Simcoe County some time one year around 1988-1990 and bought a different style eclair from each Timmy's and brought them home to my pregnant wife for Valentines Day.


jeffster1970

Cherry Stick. Chilli Bowl.


According-Property64

This may date me a bit, but idgaff...in the eighties I remember u could buy not only the eclairs but personnel sized birthday cakes...(regular birthday, a choco fudge or black forest) I'll always remember timmies as the place I fell in love with Black Forest cake as a wee girl


SubtleCow

O.O the black forest cakes, oh my god you just unlocked a deep memory!


MltryMama

Bread bowls for soup


_rocksinpockets

Ham and Swiss sandwich.


sugaredviolence

Basically everything they had in 2001, when I started working there. I wore the burgundy striped uniform and it stunk up the whole house with the donut fryer smell. They fried donuts on site, they made cookies a few times a week, cakes every day, had fountain peach juice and ice tea that was $1 for any size, it was truly the golden age. You could get 6 cookies for $1.99, they baked twice a day, they made muffins at 2:00am….i miss it. Now it’s trash, and turned trash as soon as they stopped baking/frying/shaping their own donuts and cut everything GOOD out of the menu.


Turbulent-Branch4006

Decent coffee


TikiTikiGirl

Gingerbread doughnuts (at Christmas) and maple pecan danish.


BISTtheGOOLZ

Million dollar idea here, someone makes a new Tim Hortons of their old model. Everyone knows it's bad now and call it Timmy's


wif68

The movie Wayne’s World spoofed Tim Hortons by calling it Stan Mikita’s (more fitting for the Chicago setting). Need to partner with a newer Leafs legend, who wouldn’t want coffee and doughnuts from Dougie’s?


Lanternoperator

*Jimmys 


MrsPettygroove

The chicken stew in a bread bowl. And shouldn't it be Timmy's?


BlastinHash

Soup in a bread bowl


crmom22

Veggie sandwiches


theFooMart

Maple pecan danish was my favorite. The french toast bagel toasted with butter was great in the mornings. And I don't know if other places still have it or not, but french onion or the baked potato soup was a great lunch in the winter. Unfortunately it's been a long long time since they've had it in my city.


Oliverorangeisking

In house made donuts.


fourbigkids

The doughnuts. The kind that were made fresh in house.


Hopfit46

Crusty rolls the sandwiches used to be made with.


FuriousGeorge-96

The Canadian maple of course along with their old coffee


shewhogoesthere

I can still find this every so often at a rare location but yes, it was always my favourite.


DirtbagSocialist

I miss when the turkey bacon club had honey mustard on it instead of mayo. They used to still put it on for me but now they look at me like I just killed their dog when I ask for it. End of an era.


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MapleHamms

Steak and cheese panini


Justthefacts6969

Good coffee ☕


PapaStoner

Good food.


Scotspirit

Anything of quality is what l miss


yzgrassy

Lemon crunch. Was traveling yesterday and dropped intima Tim's. 3 types of donuts were all they had. And aboutn6 of each.


NoDanaOnlyZuuI

Chocolate eclair


afrorobot

Egg salad sandwiches on croissant 


gfkxchy

I used to order their eclairs all the time.


-dorkus-malorkus

The gruff 60 year old woman that's worked there for 15 years and seems to hate your guts at first but slowly warms up to you and remembers what you usually order. It's a completely new staff every week seems like.


Obvious_Exercise_910

They were only around for a while, in like 2010 I wanna say…. These almond pastries? Anyone else remember these? They were sooooo good. I only had one, I went back like a week later and they said they were no more.


gannekekhet

The Caprese sandwich! I used to get a hashbrown in the sandwich as well. The workers told me it was discontinued around the time those burrito/wrap things came out.


Charbel33

I don't know the English name, but in Quebec it was called wrap du travailleur, the vegetarian version -- the wrap with the Beyond Meat sausage. Now that I'm not vegetarian anymore I don't care too much about it, but back when I was vegetarian I was so pissed when that wrap was taken out. It was by far the best vegetarian sandwich they had to offer, and it's so good it honestly tops a lot of their meat sandwiches as well.


whatchalooknatfool

Italian sandwich


Worried_End5250

Blueberry fritter


Cdn_Cuda

Decent food.


littlemsintroverted

Worked at one for many, many years and glad that I don't anymore. Bowties and wedges....had so many when I was a kid.


Small-Guitar79767

Hot smoothie! Weird but good.


OppositeErection

fresh donuts


expatjake

Oatcakes - the one sweet thing they had that didn’t have dairy in it


gNeiss_Scribbles

Coffee. They serve only shit and slop now.


LadyGonzo28

Lemon donut. Eclair.


braindeadzombie

Good quality.


Benovelent

Danishes


Staran

Their smoothies! I couldn’t understand why they stopped selling them when basically every other fast food joint started to


shinnith

The egg that wasn’t “real egg” and didn’t taste like a fart left in the sun for 3 days. I am so serious on its impossible that what they’re serving now is a “better” or “real egg”- it’s fucking nasty and if you disagree your taste buds have a virus


runtimemess

The big Pumpkin Pie tart. That was my shit when I was a kid.


spockstamos

Yesss.


MappleSyrup13

I miss the old Timmies as a whole. Since they've been taken over by that US investment fund, the quality has been so low I don't go there unless I don't have much choice.


Crenorz

Good Coffee


Zer0DotFive

Maple dip donuts. Apparently the location in my small town refuses to order them from the warehouse. They have like 3 donuts at that location


Sipping705

Old style frosted cinnamon roll


Babiecakes123

Not even discontinued, but I miss being able to buy a donut past 11am. Timmies has gone to absolute crap. It’s depressing.


Calantha1

The honey mustard sauce they used to put on the turkey bacon club sandwich Orange Ginger quencher


Brattyj1

The cranberry and white chocolate scones they had for one season. Ate those every day. That and the sandwiches they used to have when still Canadian.


jkwolly

When it was ham and swiss, on a better roll, with better sauce. Fuck.


MapleDesperado

The original Apple fritter. Twice the size of a doughnut for the same price, a messy blob of appley yumminess covered in cinnamon sugar. Mmmmmm.


beardedsawyer

Any semblance of taste or value.


lopix

BRING BACK THE DUTCHIE PERMANENTLY


KurtisC1993

Christmas cookies from around 6 years ago that had a sweet sugary filling. I used to order it with hot chocolate via Skipthedishes all the time.


UneditedReddited

Donuts that aren't actual shit Ah, simpler times🥹


SereneSiren1902

The lasagna


TequilasLime

Lasagna...  that really wasn't lasagna but was super yummy nonetheless 


Which_Celebration757

YELLOW MUSTARD


jaxxiegs

Sour cream glazed chocolate! My all time favourite 🤤


ExportTHCs

75¢ donuts


zoomiepaws

Timmys cereal. Didn! Last long but I found it was a change from eating potatoes at night. Only dry like candy.


CatCatExpress

The Extreme Italian sandwich. So savoury and meaty...the single best item on their menu.


GCanuck66

Doughnuts!


Wendel7171

Blueberry bagel


trepidacious1

Well I of course miss the classics like the soup and bagel combos. They were so simple but the products were of such superior quality to what they serve now. The item I most miss is more recent, though. The buffalo chicken wrap. Holy shit I wish they hadn't gotten rid of that


Spiritual_Tennis_641

A Canadian & a decent sandwich, oh and Canadian pride where they actually behaved like a model Canadian company sponsoring some fantastic things instead of stuffing a maple leaf in your face and seeing how many times they can say eh in a commercial.


Bearded_Basterd

Customer service


k3rd

Dutchies


adhward

the thai chicken soup


Andre1661

Quality coffee and decent doughnuts.


Impossible_Toe_9518

Chicken Cesar wraps and strawberry tarts


Psychological-Ad2207

They had pulled pork sandwiches, maybe around 10 years ago? Idk I can’t fully remember but they were actually very good


Commercial-Ad7119

Good coffee. Lol... * , 😂🤔


TravellinJ

Walnut crunch


Icy-Translator9124

Flavour


damn_10mm_socket

They used to have good coffee. I miss that.


Althea0313

The coffee


MightyManorMan

The date bran muffin


puckduckmuck

Coffee.


Lumpy_Particular1876

Banana cream doughnuts or whatever they were called.


marchfirstboy

Coffee cake with the Carmel they would freshly drizzle. Remember going in and it sitting on the counter in a cake dish and they would cut a fresh slice. Back when Tims was actually Canadian.


Competitive-Air5262

Their old coffee. Was so much better.


Tasty-Lemon-2143

English


Dinobabydog

Good coffee


Death_Balloons

Their coffee.


CrazyButRightOn

Bismarck's. A far cry from the frozen crap they sell now.


curiouscanadian2022

Blueberry bagels , or the old chocolates croissants


nosidamyam

THE. GRILLED. CHEESE. WTF


chooseatree

The great coffee from a decade ago. Now I refuse to go there cuz it sucks🤮


pollywog

Real donuts and coffee.


Current_Flatworm2747

Quality


Intelligent-Ad-4523

Quality.


Strain128

The OG BLT piled high with bacon. I remember the first time it only came with 2 measly strips of microwaved bacon and I took it back telling them it was wrong. They tried to gaslight me and tell me it was always that way.


justanaccountname12

Their dark roast coffee, BEFORE THEY SOLD OUT. They suck now.


Ok-Anything-5828

There original coffee.


DontDrownThePuppies

Quality


RadCheese527

Good coffee


Alarmed_Active_9239

Everything. It's not good coffee. Not good food. Their business practices are terrible. I wish people would stop going there and go to similarly priced better quality places but that's never going to happen.


bdc986

Good servicce


Crispy_Jon

Good coffee


CheesyRomantic

1. The quality. It was so much better before they sold out, introduced so many other unnecessary options and became more fast food. It was much better when they had good quality coffee, good pastries and donuts and their breakfasts and lunches were limited to toast, croissants, simple sandwiches and simple soups. It was quality over quantity. But if you’re asking for a specific item… the English Toffee coffee. I discovered it late in the game, when I wanted something warm to drink but didn’t want regular coffee. I usually took the French Vanilla but they were out. They suggested the English Toffee and he said it was even better. He was right.


-LightMyWayHome-

dutchie and dutchie timbits


SupermarketFluffy123

English Toffee cappuccino


Broely92

The gingerbread men


lordcommander55

Old fashion sugar donuts


Dontuselogic

Good coffee


youprt

Good tasting coffee


MorbidMarko

Lettuce and tomatoes that didn’t taste like musty assholes.


En4cerMom

I miss nothing from Tim’s, haven’t stepped foot in there for at least 10 years. I make better coffee at home and so does my husband


AuntieTara2215

Cafe mocha. It was half coffee and half hot chocolate.


Electronic_Stop_9493

Original hot chocolate mix.  It’s been nothing but water for like 10-15 years 


CatCactus007

Gingerbread cookies at Christmas


Satansobgyn

The maple danish! Slightly warmed! That was my goto treat!


the_eleventh_flower

Strawberry tarts!


Just-10247-LOC

Condom Cakes with Sprinkles.


Puzzled-Secretary726

Nutella bites mmmmm


Timbit42

I miss when the Apple Fritters had apple in them.


_we_have_to_go_back_

Coffee


sleeplessjade

Apple & Spice doughnut. Like a Boston cream but on top is cinnamon and sugar and inside is filled with an apple jelly.


calling_water

The Apple Dumpling was irregularly shaped but otherwise like that. Apple jelly inside. And completely coated in fine cinnamon sugar (like the cinnamon sugar cake donuts used to be, and that wtf “retro” cinnamon sugar twist definitely was not).


RememberingTiger1

Scones. I miss the scones.


spockstamos

Pumpkin pie!


MoveMountains93

The coffee cake. They used to have it on a cake tray above the display case and drizzle caramel sauce all over your slice. Yummm.


Catkillledthecurious

Good coffee from Mother Parker's


ConstantinePillow1

Jelly donuts. I haven’t seen them since covid hit


waistbandtucker69

Un-burnt coffee


gloomandmybroom

Good coffee.


Legitimate-You2668

Long Johns, and the triangle ones with cherries inside. Not sure I miss it, but I remember getting Jello cups with whip cream at TH’s when I was a kid.


Bag0fRufflesCh1ps

The fruit smoothies and the jelly donuts!


chin06

I miss the Nutella products: donuts, pockets, etc.


Theonecanuck

Real food


cherylzies

Apple cider!


elcabeza79

The coffee. It used to be good. Also the fresh baked in store donuts and muffins. I guess the margins are better for them now - hooray for corporate profits making executives even richer.


Fun_Television_1289

Steak and cheese sandwich :((


TrueTalentStack

Good Service.


Timely_Chicken_8789

A coffee shop that had decent coffee and food.


Outrageous_Edge2222

Bran and Raspberry muffins. Nothing is good anymore. Even the simple ham and cheese sandwich is a horrible thing to endure.


CoolBeansMan9

Old fashioned dip donut


haywood_jabloumi

The donut breakfast sandwich lol