Happy Canada Day!

Huskymom, do they sell the crueller timbits in every tim hortons where you are?  Because in the town I live in, only one of the tim hortons sells them

Thor, it's me Talus...Tell your mom you need more than just one timbit....tell her the 10 packs are the best....my favorite are the plain...
anytime we go through the drive-thru the girls at Timmy's always give me a timbit...try winking at them, it works for me...Love Talus...

Wait, you guys don't have Coffee Crisp in the states?....wow...

Now I have to go out and get poutine...

Tim Horton's Steeped Tea, XL please....

Happy Belated Canada Day...

t__m

Wait, you guys don't have Coffee Crisp in the states?....wow

Maybe not but we have (in Texas) sweet, smoky barbecue. And we drink tea all year and we drink it iced.

Side note: I had a friend who had moved down here from New York and the hardest thing for her to get used to is that we drink iced tea and it's all year. Up there, I suppose, people only drink tea in the winter and then they drink it hot.

 Um, they sell them in every Tim's I've ever been in.  But they go fast...so do the cakey ones. 

Uh, Ron....what does sweet smokey bbq have to do with Coffee Crisp?  Coffee Crisp is a chocolate bar with wafers and some sort of coffeeish cream something or other between the layers.  And you have to eat it slowly by taking off each layer one at a time and just leaving the thickest creamy layer in the middle without breaking it.  I used to be really good at it...now I get too impatient and just eat it normal like.  

Oh and the Iced Tea thing?  The difference is that we up here, have a different sort of Iced Tea.  I get big tins of it in the summer time.  I prefer Good Host and you make it up like Kool-aid kind of.  Its sugary and refreshing.  But it doesn't really taste like tea.  So when we go to the States and ask for Iced Tea we are always shocked that you guys actually expect us to drink cold tea.  You can also buy cans and bottles of Iced Tea.  Brisk, Nestea Cool, and Tetley Teas are some brands off the top of my head.  

Ron, we just had ribfest up here on Canada Day...awesome...I'll give you that, you guys know how to BBQ...

I love the way you guys drink ice tea...I make it that way at home...

Have you ever made sun tea?  Big glass jug, 2 tea bags and leave it in the sun for a few hours....yummm...

t__m

Have you ever made sun tea?  Big glass jug, 2 tea bags and leave it in the sun for a few hours

Yes.

And at restaraunts and with caterers, you have the option of sweet tea and unsweetened. The sweet tea is too sweet for me. I always have the unsweetened and then I grab some fake sweetener to suit my own taste.

Certainly, we have access to instant tea mixes but most people I know prefer the taste of brewed tea. Also, I think, geopgraphy has something to do with it. When you have a few months of temps in the 90's F and one month, August, where you get some days to weeks of 100 F, most anything you drink, you will want ice in it. Cold beer, cold soda, cold tea. I will drink water that is not necessarily ice cold as long as it's not heated by sitting in the sun. If you get hot, sometimes cold water is a shock to the system and something less than ice cold is actually easier on the system. But we drink iced tea year round. There will be a few days in December when I have to turn the ac on.

I find the difference in Canadian and US iced tea is that it is usually served pre-sweetened with lemon up north. When we order iced tea in the States, that's what it is - Cold Tea on ice. 

In the South, iced tea is SUPER sweet. They call it sweet tea. In the rest of the country, I think you can either get it sweetened or unsweetened. Lots of people get unsweetened and then sweeten in themselves (with aspartame, usually ). My Mom is one of the only people I know who can drink iced tea with no sweetener.

And a couple corrections... We have Oh Henry bars (they were invented in Kansas!), and Tetley tea. http://www.tetleyusa.com/

So what's the difference between Smarties and M&M's? They look pretty much the same to me..even with the same kind of color drama (getting rid of tan, adding blue, etc.). lol

In that picture, timbits look a lot like what we call do-nut holes?  Are they the same thing?

Joyce

 Joyce, Timbits are donut holes, basically.  So yes, same thing.

Chelsea, hmmm...Smarties are made by Cadbury.  M&M's are made by Hershey.  The chocolate is different.  Plus they only come in chocolate, not like M&M's that have peanut, almond, peanut butter...etc.  They are similar, but not the same.  They're flatter too.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbits

They look like donut holes to me. FWIW, I think in America, we make them the same way, not actually cutting them out of donuts but making them separately from the same stuff.

ETA: Dang it. The next time I have some donut holes, I'm going to be thinking canadian. I will ask someone to pass me the timbits and they will look at as if to say "WTH?" Then I'm going to have to explain how I come to know about that. All this from taking in a dog almost 4 years ago. Serendipity? Or ala the Grateful Dead, "what a long, strange trip it's been ..."

 Well, personally, Ron, I'm glad you took Shadow in 4 years ago.  How else would I have gotten to know you?

Well, perhaps it is just Delaware and Minnesota, but I cannot find Tetley Tea bags (for hot tea) or Oh Henry's to save my life!

I spent a weekend with my Mum in Halifax at the beginning of June and left my rainjacket there so she mailed it to me.  After picking up the package at the post office yesterday I found some Coffee Crisps in the box!  YAY!

Who knows you better than your Mum, right?

huskymom

 Well, personally, Ron, I'm glad you took Shadow in 4 years ago.  How else would I have gotten to know you?

Thanks. I just wish more of my countrymen would have responded to my Independence Day thread. Not one person. Maybe they're all on vacation and haven't had a chance.

Years ago I used to stop at a little bakery in Ocean Beach and buy donut holes for my grandmother ... they were only 5 cents apiece. Can you imagine getting a dozen of anything  for 60 cents?

Joyce