If coffee is decent you shouldn't have to load it up with heavy cream and sugar. I drink only black and usually from Starbucks, Second Cup, Good Earth or fresh ground beans from home.
I think the Tim Horton's appeal is the fact that it's Canadian, nothing more. I mainly drink my coffee at home but there are some small coffee shops that I'll go out of my way just to get some quality coffee. Places like Good Earth, The Roasterie or Cafe Beano have to be some of the best places for coffee in this city.
And I agree that Tim Hortons is overrated. I don't understand the appeal at all. Especially when you see line-ups in the morning and people driving like crazy to get there. I'd just as soon get my coffee at a gas station or diner.
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Timmy's - XL single cream, double sugar.
Home - pretty much the same, small amount of cream, couple scoops of sugar. We tend to make stronger coffee art home.
One of the best cups of coffee you can get is Second Cup's Paradiso. That is, if you get it nice and fresh. Nice, smooth, thick nutty taste thats just full and comforting. Like coffee should be. 1 cream for me and it's all good. I'll take it over any of their other $6 a cup options, and over anything Starbucks offers. Clever_Iggy is right, their coffee always tastes burned.
My cousin, who's a Fisherman from the North of Iceland, taught me this taxonomy of coffee, in descending order of goodness:
1. Cafe Royale: coffee with cognac.
2. Cafe Normale: coffee with whiskey.
3. Cafe Brutale: coffee with nothing.
I drink a lot of Cafe Brutale--and I've never seen anyone who wasn't Icelandic put whiskey in coffee. (those people will drink anything--seriously.) For me, it's coffee with 1% milk.
Tim Hortons is clearly a succesful coffee chain but their coffee is lacking, to put it nicely. Its coffee for people who dont like coffee. Take real weak coffee, throw in a ton of sugar and cream, and youve got a beverage that I wouldnt really call coffee.
Timmys is one step-up from instant.
Agreed, I never go to Timmys on campus, why bother when you can go to the Coffee Company where it's much better coffee and don't have to wait nearly as long.
