In a time when many (especially independant) coffee shops offer a discount if you get your coffee in a reusable mug, this multi-billion dollar fast food chain not only doesn’t do that, they actually refuse to fill a travel mug and insist on giving you a (non-biodegradable) disposable cup. I only came in for the free coffee but you won’t see me again. —Not even when it’s free
This article appears in Feb 27 – Mar 5, 2014.
You’re a McFuckingidiot.
I’d rather make and drink my own McSwampWater than to drink Mcdick’s anydays.
THE TRAVEL MUG
“I only come in for the free coffee but you won’t see me again.” Not even when it’s free
Maybe you should scale back to the two quart model.
New Avatar Alert! Cadaques
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Photobucket Alert! 1959 Cadillac Eldorado Biarritz
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Serious Ivan – Very sad story about your dog, MM.
are you the same person who wanted them to wash out your travel mug first?
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: Col. Ivan Sonofabitch – 95th Rifles (02/28, 9:13AM)
Yes, you’re right. It was a very sad story. A framed blow-up of that picture of Cadaques is in the hallway of our house right now. Pass it many times a day.
Dear Max – she was a girl but we named her “Max” – we had for five years and, being childless ourselves, she was like a daughter to us. As a matter of fact I have her framed Canadian Kennel Club certificate – “Belle Ann of Haven Farm” – standing next to my computer as I write this.
When we returned to Lachine after a year in Barcelona we bought a house about ten blocks away from the apartment building we lived in for four years with Max before setting out for Europe. It lies between our place and the supermarket so we go by frequently. Each time I look up at our old apartment and the entrance all of us – we also had a Siamese called “Alfie” who survived the kennel – came out of to get a cab to take us down to the port where we sailed on the “Rochambeau” – a French Line freighter carrying about ten passengers – to Calais.
We had no plans, no return tickets, just our blue Volks which also came on the Rochambeau with us and we just followed our noses. After being ripped off in Lisbon – I left our baggage including my qualifications in the Volks over night but fortunately had deposited a spare set with my sister in Ontario – we wound up in Barcelona where I got a job at the American High School of Barcelona. I compulsively had to get back to England which had blown me away on a family trip nearly twenty years before, and the death of Max was the result.
Just the other day I stopped outside the apartment building, crept down the side, and got a better look at the apartment we lived in with Max but nobody saw me and called the police.
Thanks for your thoughts.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
A McDipshit indeed.
As an aside, I think the McCoffee is a better tasting brew than Timmays. Still no home brew though.
Part of the deal OP is that you carry a little McAdvertisement around for them until you finish your drink. You’re not just drinking coffee, you’re working for them too.
Their cup might not be biodegradable, but it is recyclable. The lid goes in with your plastics and the cup goes in with your paper after they’ve been rinsed.
OB, this isnt a fucking soup line, it is a private business with the right to promote their coffee anyway they see fit. Get a job and get over it.
mm, it doesn’t matter how long ago does it?
perhaps, like you suspect, max became a pampered pooch on the arm of a fashionable parisienne, strolling the champs elysees, eating dainties in sidewalk cafes.
hugs for the whippersnappers
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: Good dog Molly (02/28, 12:56PM)
No, it doesn’t matter how long ago. Like guilt, grief is a gift that keeps on giving. We always had hoped against hope that Max might become a pampered pooch on the arm of a fashionable Parisienne strolling along the Champs Elysées but we’ll never know and that’s the worst part.
The whippets send their regards as do I.
A pleasure as always.
Cheerio!
Klyde! Mcdicks has amazing coffee! Much better than tim’s, it’s just that Tim’s puts something in theirs that makes you crave it. I used to drink it daily and would craaaave it. Until I had to give it up because it was murder on my stomach. Now, I’m fine with any other brew and no longer crave it. Many a people I know have had the same experience. And it’s the only coffee that produces terrible gastrointestinal side effects in my social circle.
I wonder what they put in it????!!!??
Also, OB: frig off.
MM–so sorry to hear about Max. You sound like a lovely pup pop, and I bet she had the best 5 years ever when you and your partner had her.
BF hit it on the head. It’s all advertising. They don’t want people drinking McSwamp water out of any competitor’s mug.
You only went in for the free coffee. Why should they care if they never see you again? Think about it.
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Pretty ‘MC5000’ Kitty (02/28, 2.44PM)
I wonder what they put in it ????!!!??
Chocolate, drool. That’s what hooks people.
Klyde, I’ll tell ya — my dad will go months without a cup of tim’s and then BAM he’ll have a cup and he’s hooked again. He started brewing it at home on my Tassimo, and he seems to enjoy it relatively well that he doesn’t get all cranky pants if he hasn’t had his cup of tim’s by 10am.
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Pretty “MC5000” Kitty (02/28, 8.21PM)
Your dad has a lot of will power to stay away for months, but having just one hooks a person. I find if I go even a couple days without having one, I’m one unmanageable son of a puss, I don’t even want to be around myself. For today I’m safe, just got back with 2 to appease my hunger for java till my friend comes out with another as we work on bikes today. It was nice driving to my favourite place in my new (old) car that I got yesterday. A 2001 Camry XLE that works and rides like a dream. Now I can go and take sledgehammer to my old nemesis, seeing as how I have javas and am calm, I’ll go lightly with blows.
Ride the shit out of that new car, Klyde!
Dad was drinking mcdicks coffee for a while. He’s just always loved coffee and won’t stop drinking it. It’s just the Tim’s that gets him — he has just one and has to have tim’s — no other coffee will do.
Now me? Nothing beats a Second Cup Latte or a Starbucks frapp 🙂
Klyde – make sure you notify the 5-0 before you go to town on your old motor.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qoUAEC6NVec
Frappuchino – Lllllaaaaaaarrrrrrgggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
i like all kinds of coffees, depends on my mood.
i had my first timmies when i moved to nova scotia, i loved it! but i don’t feel any compulsion to drink it on a regular basis.
i grind & brew my own coffee at home. miss having a murchies for choosing beans by smell though.
kitty, do you use your tassimo for starting your own frapps? way cheaper than buying out.
Nah. I don’t indulge in frappuccinos that often, so I treat myself to a nice java chip at Starbucks when I do have one.
I WILL say, though, that the macchiatos I make with my tassimo are better than the Starbucks variety. And it works out to $1.50 a cup instead of almost $5.
I have both a Tassimo and a Keurig and the Tassimo definitely brews a better cup of coffee. All the Keurig does is drain hot water through some coffee grounds in a little cup. The tassimo adjusts temperature and will actually steam your milk, etc…. The ONLY drawback of the Tassimo vs. the keurig is that the tassimo won’t give you plain boiling water.
i like timmy’s tea
kitty, you know that bright orange cleaning disc for the tassimo? that’s what i use for not just boiling water, it’s steaming boiling.
i make my frapps in the summertime when i get my mid afternoon slump. a long espresso filled with cold milk, a shot of whipping cream and a shaving of chocolate. sometimes i sugar the rim. oh my
Where do you get a cleaning disc for tassimo?!? I love our tassimo for fancy drinks, don’t use it for plain coffee often though (they are admittedly a bit wasteful). Keurig is a little more eco-friendly if you get the basket you can put your own coffee in, but ehhhh.
check the back of your tassimo, behind the water storage. there should be a little slot with the cleaning disc and a tiny paper booklet.
i use it for instant boiling water all the time. cheaper on power than the kettle. it’s just one cup full at a time though.
i love the tassimo for one cup times. coming in from an icy walk with the dogs i make a long espresso then hit it with a shot of triple sec and irish cream.
I thought about using the cleaning disk… But I wasn’t sure if it’s safe.
I’ll give it a try for my cup of soup!
i use it to get hot water to mix in the dogs food, i keep their ‘stew’ in the fridge.
Mc D’s coffee is way better than Tim’s burnt motor oil.
You know why double doubles & triples is so popular… you have to put something in it to cover the rank taste.
try both of them black, right outta the pot, side by each & you’ll see what I mean…
Not that any of them hold a candles worth of light next to a lightning strike , if compared to my lovely wife’s coffee.
Tims is popular becuae it’s relatively strong without being insanely strong. In most coffee places, it can be trial and error to find that happy medium. I like strong coffee with cream and a fair bit of sugar and with a triple, triple you have that perfect combo.
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:Col. Ivan Sonofabitch (03/02, 7.37AM)
That was quite the video….feel bad for the Caddie….that scene looks like it could have been made for T.P. Boys with bubbles beating on car with sledgehammer.
Take the cup. Thank them. Place the cup back on the counter. Thank them again. Leave.