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Have you had a Tim Hortons coffee? I'm Canadian, and I won't go near the stuff unless it's the only possible option.
Sad, weak hot water with a brown crayon dipped in.
Mikerytel
Senator
Where my area of USA is Tim Hortons iis only available as ground coffee in Walmart. There's a few stores in Staten island and Brooklyn new York but that's it. Heard they used to be very good years ago, guess not anymore
Omg, finally a Canuck who sees reason over Tim Hortons. We had one next to our hotel at Yellowknife so I would drive across town to a more proper coffee shop on the daily.
wulf
God-Emperor
As I'm from the US I've not heard of of Tim Hortons coffee. From what I gather here I haven't missed much.
For the record, I drink a pot of Maxwell House original blend (percolated) every day. Anything else just won't do.
Tim Horton's is a chain coffee and doughnut shop (think fast food coffee). They actually started out as a burger place, but couldn't compete with McDonald's and A&W in Canada. They morphed into a coffee place and adopted a strategy of putting a Tim's shop on every second street corner (a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point). You can't go anywhere in Canada without seeing one. They also place them on main highways so if you're driving and need a coffee, there will be one in the next town. The sad part is, their coffee is really awful. Fortunately for them, enough people don't seem to mind or notice, and the "double-double" is an almost stereotypical Canadian thing now (coffee with 2 cream and 2 teaspoons of sugar). It's named after Tim Horton, a hockey player from Ontario (which is potentially the most stereotypically Canadian thing ever).As I'm from the US I've not heard of of Tim Hortons coffee. From what I gather here I haven't missed much.
For the record, I drink a pot of Maxwell House original blend (percolated) every day. Anything else just won't do.
If you come to Canada (and there is nice stuff here as well, and most people are friendly, once you get past our pedantic customs officials), there will be at least one Tim Horton's in any airport you arrive at, and likely one within a kilometer (half mile) of any border post. Just drive past until you see Starbucks, or anything else really. Seriously, McCafe is better.
The other popular sight in Canada is the growing number of closed Tim Horton's shops, due to oversaturation of the market (and people who actually insist on decent coffee), which sit empty for a long time, and then are reborn as shawarma restaurants.
How Riesling is made.
ducon007
Consul
And that's why it gives you headaches ...!
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
She confused it, after all bottles are also made of glass
Loxuru
Graf von Kreuzigung
steph2000
Executioner
wulf
God-Emperor
Thanks for explanation and warning. If I'm ever up your way I'll be sure heed your advice.Tim Horton's is a chain coffee and doughnut shop (think fast food coffee). They actually started out as a burger place, but couldn't compete with McDonald's and A&W in Canada. They morphed into a coffee place and adopted a strategy of putting a Tim's shop on every second street corner (a bit of an exaggeration, but you get my point). You can't go anywhere in Canada without seeing one. They also place them on main highways so if you're driving and need a coffee, there will be one in the next town. The sad part is, their coffee is really awful. Fortunately for them, enough people don't seem to mind or notice, and the "double-double" is an almost stereotypical Canadian thing now (coffee with 2 cream and 2 teaspoons of sugar). It's named after Tim Horton, a hockey player from Ontario (which is potentially the most stereotypically Canadian thing ever).
If you come to Canada (and there is nice stuff here as well, and most people are friendly, once you get past our pedantic customs officials), there will be at least one Tim Horton's in any airport you arrive at, and likely one within a kilometer (half mile) of any border post. Just drive past until you see Starbucks, or anything else really. Seriously, McCafe is better.
The other popular sight in Canada is the growing number of closed Tim Horton's shops, due to oversaturation of the market (and people who actually insist on decent coffee), which sit empty for a long time, and then are reborn as shawarma restaurants.
Probably won't be coming up anytime soon though, as I'm severely allergic to being any farther north on the planet than I already am.
I’d love to go back to Canada- so much more to see! I’m still short 5 provinces (Saskatchewan plus maritimes) and 1 territory (Nunavut) but there’s a lot more I want to see in provinces I’ve already visited. Pretty sure I’d go back to BC and Alberta before bothering with Saskatchewan tbh…
V1 (Fieseler Fi 103)
V2 (A4)
The Engine of the A4 rocket
A9, A10 [Von Spike78 - Eigenes Werk, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6279812]Today we have pictures from the Peenemünde Army Research Center. The V1 and V2 (A4) rockets were developed and tested there. The so-called America rocket (lower stage A10, upper stage A9) was also prepared for test flight there. However, the planned warhead (an atomic bomb) was not yet available.
WikipediA: Aggregat 10 (A10 for short) was, together with A9, the world's first project for a transatlantic ballistic missile. The planning phase of the German rocket project began in 1940, and the first flight was planned for 1946. A10 was intended to be the starting stage of A9 (manned and unmanned) to enable an attack on the USA, which is why the name "America rocket" came into use towards the end of 1944. In 1943, however, the continuation of project work on A9/A10 was prohibited, as at that time all efforts were directed towards perfecting and producing the A4 rocket. Wernher von Braun was able to circumvent the ban by choosing the code name Aggregat 4b for A9, thus establishing a connection to the A4 rocket. This enabled the continuation the project work and some test flights, but the project work was stopped after the last test with A4b in January 1945.
A10 was to be powered by alcohol and liquid oxygen. The thrust of the engines was to be 2000 kN, the burn time 55 seconds. The diameter was to be 4.12 meters. Test stand VII in Peenemünde had already been designed for the launch of this rocket, which would have exceeded the size of the Aggregat 4, when it was built in 1938. A new rocket factory was built in the Austrian concentration camp Ebensee for the production of A10.
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