On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 09:52:47 -0600, graham > wrote:

>On 7/18/2016 9:32 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
>> On 2016-07-18 10:50 AM, wrote:
>>> On Mon, 18 Jul 2016 06:28:46 -0700 (PDT), "The Greatest!"
>>> > wrote:
>>>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> We dread the thought
>>>>> that McDogs is going to start appearing
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Why? Would you say the same about Tim Horton's or Canadian Tire
>>>> appearing in Cuba?
>>>
>>> Yes - though perhaps Crappy Tire would be useful to the Cubans
>>>
>> Hortons is a pretty sad statement of our standards these days. They
>> used to make good coffee and darned good donuts. They had quite a
>> variety of donuts and made them in the store. They have cut way back on
>> the donuts and have tried tarts, pies and cakes but without much luck.
>> Now they have a selection of soups and sandwiches which are not great,
>> with the exception of the Thai chicken soup which they serve only
>> occasionally. Their coffee went way, way downhill. About a year ago
>> they brought out the dark roast, which was a little closer to what it
>> used to be, but I just don't like it anymore. I used to go to Hortons
>> once or twice a day but now it is more like once a month.
>
>I avoid TH because of the lousy service!
>Graham

Haven't been in one for about 20 years - when they started importing
frozen doughnuts from Ontario rather than the individual franchise
making their own. I didn't know they were doing that, ordered a Honey
Crueller and it was inedible, yuck!