Their coffee

[frenchmoodle]

So who here likes Tim Hortons coffee? I prefer Dunkin Donuts. Whoops. And I just found out today that Tim Hortons cream has a shitload of butter and fat in it, which makes their coffee taste better. Now I'm going to feel extra sick when I fill somebody's cup with 6 creams

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[tusk]

I prefer Tim Horton's. And I take mine with milk or black so it's only the two sugars that have any influence.

I would imagine that most other fast food (like McDonalds, who sell coffee) or coffee places use the same/similar cream suppliers. Cream just does have a "shitload" of fat in it. There's really no way around that unless you're using milk as a substitute. So I don't think Tim's has any kind of top secret cream mixture or anything.

They also don't put nicotine in their coffee. Shocker.

[frenchmoodle]

Yeah, I don't think they have a top secret mix either. I'm not a huge coffee drinker so I never really thought about it before and always feel a little weird giving customers a half a cup of cream and sugar.

[tusk]

An old co-worker of mine said it best. When people would order triple-triple (or more) she always said, "these people just need to accept the fact that they don't like the taste of coffee".

[frenchmoodle]

hahhaa... good point

[pooklaroux]

You should read Gary Taubes "Good Calories, Bad Calories" -- it's not the milk fat in cream that is the killer -- it's the sugar in those packets. Shi cha not.

Actually, I can tell you that my blood sugar goes up when I drink TH decaf with cream -- no sugar --. It doesn't go up when I drink it black. Therefore something in the cream is affecting my bloodsugar. Altho I have been told it isn't so, I strongly suspect there's something like dextrose, maltodextrin, or corn syrup in the cream mixture -- that actually wouldn't be too out of the realm of possibility (just read a carton of half n half, or better yet, non dairy creamer) Very few places use coffee cream that is just milk and cream -- most coffee creamers are made with stabilizers, which are guess what? made of some type of sugar.

[frenchmoodle]

I can't drink their black coffee-- it tastes so generic to me. Even with cream I don't like it. Now I'll definitely be afraid of drinking it... the timbits are 70 calories!! I'm trying to stop myself from eating anything at work anymore. I'll have to start bringing lunch.

[sher_duck]

Also, consider that in milk (and by extension, in cream) there is a naturally occurring sugar. Lactose is the natural sugar in milk and cream, and that can play with your blood sugar.
It has nothing to do with anything that's added.

[pooklaroux]

oh no -- I can drink coffee with regular half n half without it going up the way it does when I have TH coffee with their cream. There *is* something else in TH cream, even if they swear there isn't. The meter doesn't lie. I have also made coffee with just heavy cream, and the blood sugar doesn't move much for that either, but I wouldn't want to drink my coffee like that all the time.

[feuduciel]

Tim's cream is simply 18% cream. That's all...

[frenchmoodle]

Oh, is that a lot or not? I'm not familiar with creams. My manager just went on a spiel about how they pour sticks of butter into the cream and how it's going to give people heart attacks. Maybe he's a health nut.

[sher_duck]

Also, I promise you they don't pour "sticks of butter" into cream. Cream is, by definition, fatty.

I think the regular cream and creamers that most people by at home is 16% or something like that instead of 18%. Something like heavy cream or whipping cream might have much more.

[taste_of_ink_xx]

the cream most people use at home is 10%. :) Heavy whipping cream is 35%.

[blondebeaker]

Ugh. Speaking of 6 creams some guy came in about a month ago and asked for a 6x6 and 7x7. Intead of sugar it was sweetner.

I really really REALLY wanted to ask if they wanted coffee with their cream and sweetner.

And I like the coffee, always doubledouble for me.

And the cream has 18% milk fat. No butter poured into it. It there was you would notice fat globs floating in it. I think your manager is being paranoid and needs to loosen the tinfoil hat a bit.

[pinkdagger]

One guy came in everyday one summer to get an extra large 8 cream 7 sugar. I was mortified each time he came in.

I don't drink coffee though. :) All I drink at work is honey lemon tea, water, apple cider, and hot chocolate. I do, however, load hot chocolate with whipped cream, which is also 18%. 18% is a lot in my opinion, because the only thing I've ever compared it to is milk or chocolate milk. When people ask about different iced capps, the first thing I tell them is that they have the option of 18% cream, 2% white milk, or 1% chocolate milk, so obviously 18% seems to take the cake in "blech".

[frenchmoodle]

I'm so glad I know this now. I was sucking down iced capps for ages when I first started... thank goodness I got sick of them and moved onto iced coffee. Iced capps make me feel sick looking at them because they always made me feel sick literally haha.

[harmer]

That is interesting. When I worked at TH, everyone wanted their ice cap with chocolate milk.