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The Walmartization of espresso

Posted: Wed Nov 02, 2011 8:15 pm
by John D
Since the James Bay Disco didn't work out, and since we are still looking for sponsors, right? :wink:

http://www.financialpost.com/story.html ... 711dad&p=1

The good news...lots of space for us.

The bad news...the smell of Ben-Gay at 7:00am and a company policy forbidding lycra.

J.

Re: The Walmartization of espresso

Posted: Sat Nov 05, 2011 12:22 pm
by norman marcy
NOT IN THIS LIFE TIME !!!!

Re: The Walmartization of espresso

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 9:01 am
by Jbooyah

The Walmartization of espresso

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:03 pm
by sylvan
Haha, nice to see Bucky's get its pants handed to it by Horton's and two fast food joints. I'm on the road at 5 am looking for coffee so often that McD's and Horton's are pretty essential. McD's isn't that bad. I kind of agree with the reviews in that article. Horton's has a weird taste that I don't understand. I don't know what they do to their beans to make that happen. It's a bit scary. I barf at the thought of a double double. I usually get a large with a small shot - basically a half cream and half sugar. Of course it's all just desperation at 5 am on a Sunday morning. This afternoon I had a traditional cappuccino at Bridgehead in Ottawa with the thickest, sweetest microfoam I've ever tasted and all was right in the world of coffee.

Re: The Walmartization of espresso

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:34 pm
by Rolf
Ahhh, Bridgehead. Let me guess: you then fetched some biodegradable sunglasses from MEC, a sticky bun from Three Tarts and wafted home on a smuggy cloud of self-satisfaction? :wink: I miss Westboro sometimes... and then I stroll through Cook Street Village and realize it's got these great trees to boot.

Re: The Walmartization of espresso

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 3:41 pm
by Josh.E
The taste you don't understand is likely very low quality non-ripe beans, chicory and caramel admixtures, complete with burnt sugar to try to get some of the colour back.
Tim's aint coffee. More of a caffeine delivery vessel.

Re: The Walmartization of espresso

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 4:13 pm
by Josh.E
Even more fun are the urban legends around Tims Coffee additives. Nicotine and/or MSG to make it more addictive than other coffee.

Here's another theory:
http://healthinmotion.wordpress.com/200 ... dentified/

Re: The Walmartization of espresso

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:30 pm
by Brian S
Rolf wrote:Ahhh, Bridgehead. Let me guess: you then fetched some biodegradable sunglasses from MEC, a sticky bun from Three Tarts and wafted home on a smuggy cloud of self-satisfaction? :wink: I miss Westboro sometimes... and then I stroll through Cook Street Village and realize it's got these great trees to boot.
Rolf you forgot about stopping for fresh bagels at the Bagel Shop a bit east of Westboro (or getting fries from Glen's ship wagon across from Canadian Tire). Yes, I miss that corner of Ottawa too, until the first blizzard, the first freezing rain, and then the extension of those meteorological phenomena through until May.

Re: The Walmartization of espresso

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2011 7:57 pm
by jj12
If had a choice between bucks and hortons i would pick bucks just because you don't have some shmuck putting in cream and sugar, the last time i had a large single single from hortons i nearly threw up, i said single single but it felt like the whole sugar container was put in there not to mention the litre of cream, sorry hortons is swill.