What I am about to say may upset a lot of Canadians.
I do not like Tim Horton’s. You may say to yourself, how can you not like Tim Horton’s? “It’s a part of who we are as Canadians.”
Well, that doesn’t make any sense to me. It does not represent who I am and it shouldn’t define the country in where I was born.
Somehow Tim Horton’s has slipped through the cracks of being included in the long list of fast food restaurants that ensure a fast track to your very own heart attack.
Like many other fast food restaurants such as McDonald’s, Burger King and Wendy’s, just to name a few, the Tim Horton’s menu is full of items with high calorie counts, extreme amounts of sugar and all those fatty oils that keep your artery’s nice and clogged.
I am not saying that they do not deserve to exist. I will be the first to admit that I enjoy fast food and defiantly indulge in foods that are not good for me.
What bothers me is I feel Tim Horton’s hides behind the Canadian flag. Is terrible tasting coffee and fatty donuts a part of our heritage? That is not something to be proud of.
Of all the major coffee shops in Canada, I find Tim Horton’s to have the worst quality of coffee. There has been multiple times where my coffee from Tim Horton’s has tasted like water yet Canadians line up for days to get their kick in the morning.
They make us believe that consuming Tim Horton’s is as patriotic as giving two minutes of silence for those who sacrificed themselves to keep our country strong and free.
When I think of Canada, I think of the colourful leaves found on our streets in the heart of fall, I think of snowflakes landing on my tongue while standing on a mountain during the midst of winter, I think of the glorious water falls of Niagara, I think of the historic buildings on Parliament Hill, I think of the beautiful belugas in the deep blue waters of the Saguenay River, I think of Terry Fox and his incredible journey across Canada in the fight to cure cancer.
That, to me, is what Canada is about and not some American-owned company with their high in fat and low in quality products, riding on the coattails of our Canadian roots.