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Mundane Ramblings » Blog Archive » Acknowledging Addiction — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:25:58 +0000

[...] Remember when I was off caffeine altogether? Remember when we discussed the merits of coffee: Timmies vs Good Coffee anywhere else? (Special bonus is this comment from Ali, which I had forgotten about and which still makes me [...]

By: Court

Court — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:45:36 +0000

Huh, well that certainly hit a nerve with the coffee folks. Thanks for the comments, and the “50 vs Ex” post is still being written Noonan. It requires much research, week after week, trying to get it right.

By: nikki

nikki — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 15:07:49 +0000

Noonan, my man, you nailed that on the head. You truly can NOT leave Timmy’s, head to Starbucks, and expect to go back and drink the Horton’s Hell you once thought was liquid gold.

I have strayed from the Timmy’s now that ALL the kids have started school and I actually have some “me” time on my hands a bit. There’s no going back.

No to long ago though there was no chance for this mom to go anywhere BUT Timmie’s for a quick cup of sanity ‘cuz then you can launch each of them a lard bit for $0.10/ea and no one complains about the drive-thru line up or the stop you are making that, God-forbid does not revolve around their social schedule. No lard-bits at Starbuck’s ma’am…sorry, see you when your kids are older and you can pretend to be trendy and hip again.

By: jimmie

jimmie — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 22:00:01 +0000

Bridgehead IS the best, but I will not proselytize on that subject overmuch. I’ve come to realize that there are Starbuck’s drinkers and Bridgehead drinkers, and rarely will one accept the other’s coffee. I find Bridgehead’s brew a lot smoother and less bitter than the ‘buck’s, plus it makes me feel warm inside to know I’m buying fair trade coffee. That said, there’s a Tim’s on the way to my new office, and I admit to stopping in there a lot more often than I’m proud of over the past couple of months. Wow, when you’ve been off it for a long time and then back on it on a regular basis, the sh*t is just plain awful, even in its only drinkable concoction, the double-double. Does anyone actually imbibe that crap straight??

ps– This subject makes me feel old. Please post something about the relative merits of 50 vs. EX next.

By: Jay

Jay — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 19:54:14 +0000

Starbucks die hard here. I haven’t crossed the road to Tim’s since Starbucks opened it’s drive-thru window on *this* side of the street.

By: Court

Court — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:56:40 +0000

Oh crap, now that’s gold Ali. Why the hell is that such a big deal? It shouldn’t be, but it really throws them off, eh?

“Don’t panic, but…” should be the first thing we all say to a drive-through microphone. Anything off-script is the cause for sheer terror you can actually hear through the speaker. Nikki used to order her Tim’s with “two milk, 1/2 sugar”, meaning less than one whole sugar, but that was hard, hard hard to get across. Forget ordering food that way, I REALLY hate doing that for a family of five, I would rather park and run in myself than try to explain what I want. That headset seems to detract at least 20 IQ points from the wearer.

I can’t believe you are willing to take the chance that you might miss your “winning donut” cup by using your travel mug, and apparently neither can they.

Maybe instead of saying “Don’t panic” you should shriek into the microphone “NNNOOOOOO CUUUUUPPPPP!” while honking the horn. I bet you would be much more memorable than the blonde tree-hugger in the hybrid quietly murmuring, “no I really don’t need a cup, thanks”. You would probably quickly move right into being recognized as a regular (nutcase), and your problems are then solved.

By: Ali

Ali — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 18:35:54 +0000

I hear you, Court! Loud and clear. Arnprior has two Tim’s and no other options for morning commuters. I have the exact same problem with sizing, but complicated vastly by the fact that I like to use a travel mug. So I drive up (in my gasless-on-idle Hybrid) and order. It really throws them off that I want a medium coffee, because apparently my mug is a large. But I don’t want it full, because that’s a lot of coffee, and if I *do* order large there doesn’t seem to be any way to get it to taste right. The medium with two milk and one sugar is fine, but how to you proportionally up-size that to large? Apparently it can’t be done. And they don’t have a medium refill refund, which I don’t care about, but they really do. I just want them to put the damned drink in my mug and lemme outta there. Then there’s Roll Up season. Holy frig they’ll chase you down Madawaska Boulevard to give you an empty cup, it would seem, rather than believe you might really have meant to drive away with your coffee in the travel mug, sans chance to win. When I pull up to the microphone now I feel like I’ve got to explain myself: “OK, don’t panic, but I’ve got a travel mug here, and I’d like you to put the equivalent of a medium coffee with two milk and one sugar in there. It’ll be a buck forty-four. I’m OK with that. I realize there’s no discount. Also, I don’t want the roll up cup; it’s part of my whole “reusable travel mug” thing. Thank you for your time.” I’ve resorted to getting up 3 minutes earlier to make my own stupid coffee, so this tells you what a big issue it was for me

By: nikki

nikki — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:06:29 +0000

Nothing has ever topped the Equator coffee that is brewed at the Heart and Soul Cafe and at the Bohemian Cafe. Problem with that coffee is that when I buy the beans and try to make it at home in my Cuisinart coffee perk, it never, not at all, nuh-uh, resembles the way it was when I drank it at these establishments.

*sigh* The complications and complexities of such a wee bean are many.

By: Wilson

Wilson — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 22:06:22 +0000

From what I hear, wait ’till you discover Bridgehead…