The Soul-Sucking Canada Thread - Page 53

stevanford1 · #**1041** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 2:33 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Your experience sounded similar to the one time I ate at ABC country kitchen. Never again!

ABC Kitchen food looks pretty pre-chewed.

Just for Me&You:

stevanford1 · #**1042** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 2:35 PM**

BTW O-tac, I went to NE Calgary on street-view and found the legendary uni-driveways!

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1205...7i13312!8i6656

wave46 · #**1043** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 2:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

ABC Kitchen food looks pretty pre-chewed.

Ugh. Good Lord.

Food is supposed to have some colour. This looks worse than British food of yore.

stevanford1 · #**1044** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 2:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by wave46

Ugh. Good Lord.

Food is supposed to have some colour. This looks worse than British food of yore.

O-tacular · #**1045** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 2:58 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

zimbio

This is how Me&You feels about this thread, whereas this is how I feel when it comes to soul-sucking buildings and surroundings (unless I can claw my eyeballs out)..

I find the term "circlejerk" (which seems beloved by SSP forumers) way more disgusting than "Rim Whoretons", but to each his own.

I agree. The pearl clutching by people who voluntarily visit this thread is hilarious. You’d think we were forcing them to be here. Perhaps we could shorten Rim Whoreton’s to Rimmy Ho’s to be less offensive.

stevanford1 · #**1046** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 3:03 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

I agree. The pearl clutching by people who voluntarily visit this thread is hilarious. You’d think we were forcing them to be here. Perhaps we could shorten Rim Whoreton’s to Rimmy Ho’s to be less offensive.

. I love how they literally come here just to get pissed off and than comment that they are angry at us for pissing them off. BTW, Rim Whoreton's dumb rebrand with the hockey stick door handles and the restroom insignia's decked out in plaid is soul-sucking.

Perhaps it was designed by these two:

wave46 · #**1047** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 3:11 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

. I love how they literally come here just to get pissed off and than comment that they are angry at us for pissing them off. BTW, Rim Whoreton's dumb rebrand with the hockey stick door handles and the restroom insignia's decked out in plaid is soul-sucking.

Tim Hortons has no clue.

They try upscale with lattes and shit of that like. It fails.

They try overtly appealing to the Canadiana, hoping for that nostalgia factor. It too, will fail.

Why not just have decent coffee, donuts made on-site and an acceptable breakfast/lunch? Is that so much to ask? It seemed like the strategy before.

O-tacular · #**1048** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 3:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by ac888yow

It's not been that long since attendance has struggled, but the reasons why boil down to:

And this being the soul-sucking Canada thread, that's my contribution.

Lebreton Flats is also soul-sucking and we had a great chance to resolve that but our friend above did his thing and set us back another decade at least.

Melnyk makes Chretien look like a supermodel. As ugly on the outside as he is on the inside. What a douche.

Edit: Googling him it says his residence is Barbados. Of course! Just like our Murray Edwards living in London UK and complaining about municipal taxes.

stevanford1 · #**1049** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 3:18 PM**

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Originally Posted by wave46

Tim Hortons has no clue.

They try upscale with lattes and shit of that like. It fails.

They try overtly appealing to the Canadiana, hoping for that nostalgia factor. It too, will fail.

Why not just have decent coffee, donuts made on-site and an acceptable breakfast/lunch? Is that so much to ask? It seemed like the strategy before.

I agree! These day's they have everything

Tim Horton's Lasgna

Tim Horton's Burger

Tim Horton's Hot Dogs

Tim Horton's Deep Fried Shitonastick.

stevanford1 · #**1050** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 3:20 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Melnyk makes Chretien look like a supermodel. As ugly on the outside as he is on the inside. What a douche.

I love how in that photo it looks like he has eaten 50 lemons! Perhaps he had the coffee at Rim Whoretons before that photo was taken!

kwoldtimer · #**1051** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 3:21 PM**

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Originally Posted by wave46

Ugh. Good Lord.

Food is supposed to have some colour. This looks worse than British food of yore.

That's why they invented ketchup!

O-tacular · #**1052** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 3:23 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

ABC Kitchen food looks pretty pre-chewed.

Just for Me&You:

The pattern on the plate adds to the vomit-like appearance.

O-tacular · #**1053** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 3:25 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

BTW O-tac, I went to NE Calgary on street-view and found the legendary uni-driveways!

https://www.google.com/maps/@51.1205...7i13312!8i6656

Good Lord! I think that’s a new one you discovered! The joke of it is that even when homeowners keep the strips between driveways unpaved it has almost the same appearance as there is so little space for greenery between all the cement. I’ve seen newer areas where they put gravel instead of grass and it looks as bad.

stevanford1 · #**1054** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 3:31 PM**

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Originally Posted by O-tacular

Good Lord! I think that’s a new one you discovered! The joke of it is that even when homeowners keep the strips between driveways unpaved it has almost the same appearance as there is so little space for greenery between all the cement. I’ve seen newer areas where they put gravel instead of grass and it looks as bad.

I consider those wretched ones with gravel as a unidriveway's distant cousin. It's just as bad as a unidriveway! No greenery in sight...

MolsonExport · #**1055** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 4:44 PM**

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Originally Posted by wave46

Tim Hortons has no clue.

They try upscale with lattes and shit of that like. It fails.

They try overtly appealing to the Canadiana, hoping for that nostalgia factor. It too, will fail.

Why not just have decent coffee, donuts made on-site and an acceptable breakfast/lunch? Is that so much to ask? It seemed like the strategy before.

Totally agree. I used to be a tim horton's fan back when they (a) used an apostrophe, (2) made the donuts on site (and actually had donuts: there are times when I have been in a tim's and they had maybe 3 kinds, and always the shitty ones like old fashioned with icing, something with blue sprinkles, and some overpriced garbage like a Whoopie-pie with Nutella donut), (3) had dining counters, (4) had the bread bowl with chili, (4) had really good coffee, and (5) lacked the horrible menu bloat of extremely bad food options.

stevanford1 · #**1056** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 4:48 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Totally agree. I used to be a tim horton's fan back when they (a) used an apostrophe, (2) made the donuts on site (and actually had donuts: there are times when I have been in a tim's and they had maybe 3 kinds, and always the shitty ones like old fashioned with icing, something with blue sprinkles, and some overpriced garbage like a Whoopie-pie with Nutella donut), (3) had dining counters, (4) had the bread bowl with chili, (4) had really good coffee, and (5) lacked the horrible menu bloat of extremely bad food options.

Buffalo wing flavored latte MMMMMM MMMM!

Kraft Singles and hot dogs MMMMMM MMMM!

Belgian Vomit MMMM MMMM!

I hate modern Tim Horton's.

O-tacular · #**1057** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 5:55 PM**

Buffalo wing flavoured latte has to be one of the grossest things I’ve ever seen. I’m not even sure the 4x4 wide, 4x4 pickup truck driving, cammo wearing Joe 6pack would enjoy such a drink.

Nashe · #**1058** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 5:59 PM**

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Originally Posted by stevanford1

ABC Kitchen food looks pretty pre-chewed.
Just for Me&You:

So the presentation isn't Cora's but... it's an egg. From a chicken. Fried. What colour are yours when you make them?
I mean... this isn't a breakfast I'd pay $20 for but... it's a lot better than a sausage-mcmuffin...
I at least recognize everything.

I wouldn't want or expect much beyond this at that kind of place, though...

lio45 · #**1059** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 6:10 PM**

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Originally Posted by MolsonExport

Totally agree. I used to be a tim horton's fan back when they (a) used an apostrophe, (2) made the donuts on site (and actually had donuts: there are times when I have been in a tim's and they had maybe 3 kinds, and always the shitty ones like old fashioned with icing, something with blue sprinkles, and some overpriced garbage like a Whoopie-pie with Nutella donut), (3) had dining counters, (4) had the bread bowl with chili, (4) had really good coffee, and (5) lacked the horrible menu bloat of extremely bad food options.

But they have hockey sticks door handles now! It's your patriotic duty to go and spend your money there.

I used to be a customer every now and then when on the road, but nowadays I really just avoid Tim's (there are better options - even McDonald's is!)

It's almost like they're trying on purpose to have the shittiest quality and take all the wrong corporate decisions... Even their ads are absolutely unappealing. If they were a single company (instead of being part of a larger conglomerate of other brands that may or may not be doing well, I have no idea) I'd totally be shorting their stock now.

Nashe · #**1060** Posted **Jun 19, 2020, 6:15 PM**

All of these places need to "get back in their corners" and do what they did well (ok, pretty good). For Timmy's, that means coffee and donuts. Not lasagna and poutine. McDonalds needs to get out of their horrible donuts and breakfast wraps. Etc.

It's a race to the bottom to see who can do everything horribly.