Saturday 4 July 2009
Saturday 4 July 2009
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"I never realized that I had my own coffee rituals until they changed dramatically when I moved to Europe," Expatica's blogger writes.Coffee has been consumed around the world for centuries by everyone from royalty to peasants. Coffee consumption has as many different rituals as there are countries in which it is imbibed.
However, I never realized that I had my own coffee rituals until they changed dramatically when I moved to Europe.
I've been drinking coffee for as long as I can remember. As a child, I wanted to be cool like my Dad, a committed coffee drinker, so I started choking down the stuff strong and black at a very early age.
By high school I was addicted. I couldn't face the day without a cuppa. And many an all-nighter in university was fueled by massive quantities of caffeine.
Until I moved away from Eastern Canada, I didn't realize how strongly our coffee culture was tied to one company — Tim Horton's. There are 2,607 outlets in Canada, mostly east of Ontario, and only around 200 in the US. But Timmy's has influenced everything from how we drink coffee to how we talk about it.
Tim Horton's is your typical North American doughnut shop that expanded with bagels, soup, sandwiches and muffins, but its mainstay has always been coffee. There are urban legends about what is in the coffee that makes it so addictive, but one thing is certain — Eastern Canadians caffeine addicts can't get enough of the stuff.
The speed and ease of acquiring Tim's coffee is its main advantage. The coffee is always brewing — at busy spots there could be six or more pots on at a time. You can walk in and order or, if you can't handle the physical strain of standing in line for five minutes, you can stay in your car and go to the drive-through.
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