To the local coffee chain, why do you keep using the word baking in your advertising, we all know it is frozen pre-made food shipped in from Ontario. It fits the definition of baking but just barely, I would call that deceptive advertising. —HT

This article appears in May 24-30, 2012.

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  2. actually o.p., you are wrong parly. because i know people who actually do the baking of donuts and things for timmies.not all of them have a cooking/baking area, but the bigger ones do. just like robin’s does.
    most of the stuff they have coming in the trucks are the fixings for their nuts, and pastries. i don’t think you will ever see frozen donuts coming off those trucks, and if you do, get a picture of it, and send to the various news media abouts. because yes, it is/would be false advertising. but don’t hold your breath, it will kill you.

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  3. even if it says *freshly baked* it’s still from frozen. the guides were by a few months ago, i’d much rather see them than the jehovahs…you can now throw a rock, critter guy^^

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  4. painy, guess you didn’t really read my comment to the bitcher, did you. get us a picture of the frozen stuff then. i don’t think any of these stores bring in frozen nuts, there are tastes to consider, and i can tell frozen, from semi freshly baked. they might keep some in a cooler at back, but no frozen solid shit. i have seen this first hand, even at the square of scotia. remember, i used to work close by, and dated one of the girls there for a time.

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  5. In most fast food joints “freshly baked” refers more to the counter staff than to the product.

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  6. good one commander. sorry sucks, i don’t even know what place the ob is talkin about

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  7. I worked as a baker in PE for my 1st job, @ timmies. Everything is frozen, the cake rings, the fill donuts, the timbits, tea biscuits, cups of frozen muffin mix.
    It only takes a very few minutes in a convection oven for the cake rings, fritters, yeast fills, etc.
    Then we just either glaze, fill, roll in sugar, or top with fondant.
    Even the bread rolls are frozen in boxes.And the egg patties. The only thing not pre-made in pakages are tomato and lettuce for the sandwiches. My shift started @ 3am, in a -30 degree freezer. Fur bloomers for that job.

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  8. I believe Timmies brings in frozen bagels from Montreal, the same supplier that the Atlantic Stuporstore gets their frozen bagels from. The evidence is anecdotal though, no photographs or surveillance video.

    Yes, I saw that Painey. I’ll let it slide. This time.

    I didn’t even know you were Catholic Ivan. Does this mean you’re also infallible?

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  9. I defy anyone to tell me the difference between one of these donuts and one baked today.

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  10. LS – “fixings for their nuts” with a side order of crabs I assume?

    Ivan – dominus abiscuit and pass the altar boys. The only holy orders the Rat Catchers know is fleecing their flock to pay off the pedos.

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  12. @Trood – Insufferable? YES! Infallible – not so much.

    Baz – *sonorously* “We Beat The Jews At Dominos”

    World’s wealthiest Witness Protection Program for kiddy diddlers.

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  15. It is all frozen and shipped from a processing plant in Ontario. It is just as fresh (baked and cooked) as all the frozen, prepackaged dinners and crescent rolls in the freezer of most homes….
    This is what the world views as progress…
    Tims pays my bills, but I don’t eat their food!

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  16. you mean those dry as bagels aren’t freshly baked? No kidding. Why does Tim’s even make those cheese bagels? I ordered one one time and it made the whole car smell like a rotten sock

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