Having coffee and eating doughnuts at Tim Hortons has been touted as the all Canadian experience. After all, (implicit in it) you are not really Canadian if you do not patronize a Tim Hortons restaurant or drink their coffee! The reality of it all is that Tim Hortons restaurants are every bit as Canadian as are Dave Thomas' Wendy's pigtails. It is true that Tim Hortons was once a Canadian company, founded by a Canadian hockey player. However, the company was purchased years ago by an American.
The fact that the chain is now American is really not what bothers me. The notion that being American is automatically less virtuous is a bit ludicrous.
The case I have against Tim Hortons restaurants is this, and I wish to lay it out directly: IT SELLS "EXCHANGE" COFFEE. If you do not know what "exchange" coffee is, find out. It is not the same as fair trade coffee. It is just the opposite. "Exchange" here means theft. I do not wish to plant ideas in the wrong persons.
2006-07-19
11:39:50
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