Lingo

Originally posted by geochuck Yuk - Only at Tim Horton's it means Double sugar Double cream and has been in our vocabulary since the first Tim Horton's opened on Ottawa Street in Hamilton Ontario in the fifties. Now there are over 60 of these shops in Hamilton. The former owner of that store was on the Hamilton police force with me. When I was a cop I used to have my coffee there even though it was the only place a cop had to pay for the coffeee. He now owns more shares in Wendy's than anyone else. Over the last 25yrs something really weird happened in the States when ordering coffee. Regular coffee used to mean that when the waitress poured you a cup, she also poured in cream and gave you sugar. Now for some reason regular coffeee means black. I don't know if it happened with the occurrance of that awful fake cream that's always on the table or with the emergence of different octains of gas. Or it simply another lost cultural idiosyncromism(sp) that used to be part of our culture? There are thankfully a few places where regular really means with cream. I also don't understand why people drink coffee with silly flavors in it. Why would some one want a coffee to taste like hazelnuts? Those are real whimps!!!!!

Originally posted by geochuck Yuk - Only at Tim Horton's it means Double sugar Double cream and has been in our vocabulary since the first Tim Horton's opened on Ottawa Street in Hamilton Ontario in the fifties. Now there are over 60 of these shops in Hamilton. The former owner of that store was on the Hamilton police force with me. When I was a cop I used to have my coffee there even though it was the only place a cop had to pay for the coffeee. He now owns more shares in Wendy's than anyone else. Over the last 25yrs something really weird happened in the States when ordering coffee. Regular coffee used to mean that when the waitress poured you a cup, she also poured in cream and gave you sugar. Now for some reason regular coffeee means black. I don't know if it happened with the occurrance of that awful fake cream that's always on the table or with the emergence of different octains of gas. Or it simply another lost cultural idiosyncromism(sp) that used to be part of our culture? There are thankfully a few places where regular really means with cream. I also don't understand why people drink coffee with silly flavors in it. Why would some one want a coffee to taste like hazelnuts? Those are real whimps!!!!!