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Craving a Trudonut? How about a Justin Beaver Tail? We present some ‘Canadian icon’ doughnut suggestions for Tim Hortons
When Canadian actor Jason Priestley, playing himself, said on the U.S. sitcom How I Met Your Mother that he had proudly crammed a Timbit into a strawberry vanilla doughnut, Tim Hortons responded with a fake ad for “The Priestley.” The National Post‘s Steve Murray takes a look at what other Canadians, and Canadian institutions, could be likewise honoured with their own delicious doughnut.
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Yes, The Priestley Tim Hortons Timbit inside a doughnut is real. But you can’t have one
What was your first reaction? Delight? Revulsion? A heady mix of both? You can blame Jason Priestley, the former 90210 star, and the writers of How I Met Your Mother.
[Photo credit: Courtesy Tim Hortons/Twitter]
Tim Hortons made Ryan Gosling his very own mug
We talked to the woman who inspired the whole project — and who got a Gosler Goblet of her own. Read the interview here: natpo.st/1458ibR
Graphic columnist Steve Murray’s greatest fear
Graphic: How does Tim Hortons’ new extra large coffee stack up against its old sizes?
Starting next Monday, January 23, Tim Hortons will be rolling out a new extra-large coffee size across the country after a trial period with the bigger size in Kingston and Sudbury, Ontario.
At 24 ounces of coffee, or 710 millilitres, the cup will be bigger than a standard-sized individual plastic bottle of pop and outweigh Starbucks’ largest size for hot drinks, venti (20 ounces).
Sentimental tool: What Canadian media thought of these public figures in the last six months
This is what Tim Hortons thinks lasagna looks like
When news broke earlier this week that Tim Hortons had decided to branch out into Italian cuisine with a new lasagna offering, we were understandably intrigued.
Tim Hortons set to make ‘small’ a bit bigger
That so-tiny-you-can-drink-it-in-four-sips small coffee at Tim Hortons might soon be history — if a test run in two Canadian markets proves successful.
As of Monday morning, coffee guzzlers in Kingston and Sudbury who ask for a “small” will get a cup that look a heck of a lot more like the 296 mL medium, as the Canadian chain tries to decide whether it will get rid of the 236 mL small cup at every location.
Canadian Heroes greeting cards
Toronto illustrator Wendy Tancock loosely doodles art and phrases on crockery, aprons and cards, all of which are Made in Canada (of course). Her latest series is called Canadian Heroes, riffing on Canadiana both cultural and historical (as the daughter of a Canadian history teacher, she comes by the latter honestly). Tancock goes from hockey jerseys and two-fours to musings on heritage stand-bys like Muskoka chairs, Tommy Douglas and DeHavilland Beavers but also on cult classics such as Tim Horton, poutine and our beloved Mr Dressup.
$4.95 at stores like Paperboy, Teatro Verde and the AGO in Toronto, Crocus & Ivy in Regina, Chicken Scratch in Edmonton, Paper Root in Calgary, Le Panier in Point Claire, The Papery in Ottawa, Bolen Books in Victoria and BookMark, Gigi B and K’Imprints in Vancouver (800-664-9642, wendytancockdesign.com)
Timbits turn 35: Five photos tangentially related to Timbits
This summer marks the 35th birthday of that doughnut hole-sized snack, the Timbit. Naturally, the celebration of Canada’s most prized fried dough treat (sorry, beaver tails) knows no bounds; tributes include a cake created for Tim Hortons by Top Chef Canada’s Andrea Nicholson. (CNW Group/Tim Hortons Inc.)
Kandahar Journal: Operation find Tim Hortons
We met for the first time — two nights ago — in a hotel bar in Dubai. After a couple of company-funded Kilkennys, I could tell Brian Hutchinson — the reporter I am working with / for / and around on this trip — and I would be firm friends.
Brian and I finally landed at Kandahar Air Field (KAF) Tuesday afternoon. We walked off into the heat and stood in a queue where some happy U.S. Navy MPs confiscated contraband for an hour. I managed to get my first sunburn, as one by one the civilians heading onto base gave up their whiskey and gin.
After dumping our gear in the media sleeping accommodations, we took a quick tour with Canadian Sergeant Shawn Richardson who gave us the lay of the land. KAF is a constantly morphing and ever-enlarging base, as nations that are part of the ISAF coalition come and go, or as their roles change so does the structure and layout. The big news though – is that the Tim Hortons has moved to the other end of the base.
Gary Clement’s Week in Review for Feb 27 to March 5, 2011
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