Lingo

Tim Hortons Donuts has opened their newest store at a Canadian Armed Forces Base in Kandahar Afganistan today to give the troops there a feeling of home. A chance for the soldiers to get a DOUBLE / DOUBLE.

4x4 from In-n-Out. A truly staggering sight. Only topped by a Tommies double chili cheeseburger at 1 am. Yum.

I have to agree with the Tiger on this. As a former waiter myself when a customer asked for regular coffee it meant black caffeinated coffee. The next question was always, "Do you want cream and sugar with that?" Now, tea comes two ways, tea and unsweetened tea. I once ordered tea in the upper midwest and got a cup of hot tea, unsweetened, bleck.

It might be a regional thing. Growing up in Chicago also I remember "regular coffee" meaning cream and sugar, but I haven't heard that phrase since the early sixties. I remember it being for take out coffee from a restaurant when the would add cream and sugar in the cup if you wanted. This was before individual serving non-dairy creamer.

Originally posted by aquageek I have to agree with the Tiger on this. As a former waiter myself when a customer asked for regular coffee it meant black caffeinated coffee. The next question was always, "Do you want cream and sugar with that?" Now, tea comes two ways, tea and unsweetened tea. I once ordered tea in the upper midwest and got a cup of hot tea, unsweetened, bleck. I was in Georgia and had a waitress ask if I wanted sweeaat teeaaaaa.(southern accent does not translate well) I had no idea what she was saying, my husband had to translate. His family grew up in Southern Illinois where sweet tea is a staple.

Why would some one want a coffee to taste like hazelnuts? It's called marketing. Obviously there is a demand for flavoured coffee. You will also find that many companies are forced to diversify in order to maintain or expand market share. Brewers are now offering beers with caffeine in response to drinks like Red Bull. Tim Horton's started as coffee & doughnuts but over the years has expanded their menu to include muffins, bagels, cakes & sandwiches. If you are so inclined you can also purchase a Tim Horton's coffee maker and cans of Tim Horton's coffee to brew at home. Again, this is great marketing and is the reason why the chain does so well. Are Tim Horton's products the best? In a word, NO. However, when you add up all the Tim Bits ( sorry couldn't resist that one ) they come out on top. In keeping with the " Lingo " thread, I saw a TV article about the Tim Horton's in Kandahar. A soldier actually order a TRIPLE / TRIPLE. Maybe that should be the lingo for a TH Latte?

"Regular coffee used to mean that when the waitress poured you a cup, she also poured in cream and gave you sugar." Maybe that's a midwest phenomenon as that was certainly never the case here in SoCal. Regular coffee meant black w/ caffiene. "DeCaf" is self explanatory and the question w/ an order of coffee would always be "would you like cream and sugar w/ that?" Speaking as a consumer and former waiter going back 30 years. tooth

Coffee in - 1953 I used to get my regular coffee at the Kresge Stores lunch counter it came with cream and sugar. The takeout coffee was 5 cents. it disturbed me when they raised the price to 7 cents a cup.

Wow memmories of Georgia coffee, On the way to the swimming hall of fame and the east west meet my car stalled and I could not get it started. My friend Mike and I stayed with the car the four others walked to a gas station up the highway and got the tow truck to come back to us and he got us started. There was a restaurant at that gas station. The other four had a coffee while they waited. When mike and I arrived we ordered a coffee, when the waitress served us she dumped one of the cups on the counter. She took a towel out from under the counter wiped it up then wrang the coffee back into the coffee urn. Mike and I did not drink our coffee. I always called it Georgia coffee.

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!!!!!