McDonald’s Canada- Free Coffee All Day - March 1-14
No Purchase Required
It's as simple as that. Between March 1 and March 14, 2010 place your coffee order at any McDonald's in Canada and get it free. I was already getting a medium black each morning on my way to work; so this is a nice free bonus for me already. I've read that some McDonalds are just offering the small-sized coffees free and making customers who order larger pay the difference, but my McDonalds in Lakefield isn't hassling me like that and even if they were, it's just pennies.
McDonalds coffee today isn't the scalding hot crap of bygone times either. These days, I'd be hard pressed to tell the difference between their coffee and Tim Horton's coffee in a blind taste test. McDonald's cups are better too, and a Mcdonald's medium is as big as a Timmie's large.
I think that if Canadians speak out by switching to McDonalds for the next two weeks it will force Tim's to either improve their offering, increase their portion sizes (apple fritters are now the size of my thumbnail,) or drop their prices. This kind of competition has to be a good thing, right?
And if that's not motivation to switch your coffee provider for two weeks consider these other reasons:
- Tim Horton's puts cocaine in their coffee to get you addicted. While this is a good cheap source of cocaine, it's kind of morally wrong...
- Tim's lids suck! I can't get that stupid little tab to stay back. It always flicks up as I'm bringing the coffee to my mouth and deposits a little bead of coffee on my nose.
- Tim Horton's is no longer even a Canadian company! They are owned by Wendy's out of Columbus, Ohio. By comparison, McDonalds Canada is duh, Canadian, jointly owned by Shania Twain and Celine Dion.
- Roll up the Rim is totally rigged. I've rolled up like 10,000 rims and have never even won a donut. What's up with that?! Every time I roll up the rim it says: "Please play again" I roll it a little further to reveal "...sucker!"
- I've got nothing against Tim Horton's, but I've heard that in addition to selling coffee they also operate puppy mills across North America, they support separation, and they deny man's devastating impact on our climate. For shame, Tim's. For shame.
References:
McD's goes free to counter Tim Hortons
sTEpHan hOPpE - A Tim Hortons Conundrum
So even though I should be cheering the good old Canadian company that belongs to a good old American company, I’m with you on favoring the American company that belongs to a couple of Canadians.
The schlep that Tim Hortons serves gets it crack-pipe like addictiveness not from the coffee quality, but their secret ingredient...cream. Most coffee places serve cream at 10-12%. Tim Hortons is 18% percent which makes it both sweeter and masks the subpar quality of the coffee itself.
So not only are you drinking crappy coffee but Canadians are getting fatter at the same time. Throw in the fact that all of their donuts are now shipped in frozen as of 2 years ago...
McDonalds is far superior coffee