{"id":5990,"date":"2011-08-28T19:49:49","date_gmt":"2011-08-29T00:49:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=5990"},"modified":"2011-08-28T19:53:05","modified_gmt":"2011-08-29T00:53:05","slug":"supersizing-timmy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2011\/08\/28\/supersizing-timmy\/","title":{"rendered":"Supersizing Timmy"},"content":{"rendered":"

D<\/span>id you hear the latest<\/a>? Starting tomorrow at select Tim Hortons locations in Kingston and Sudbury, the small coffee size will no longer be available, the medium and large will become the small (10 oz) and medium (14 oz) respectively, and the new extra large will be a whopping 24 oz — that outsizes Starbucks’ Venti by four ounces.<\/p>\n

That’s more than 2\/3 of a litre of coffee, folks, and the entirety of the daily recommended <\/a>caffeine intake.<\/p>\n

I have mixed feelings about this. I’ve always found the small size a bit of an anachronism, and Beloved and I refer to it as the “kiddie size”. On the other hand, I’ve got a 2XL a day habit, and I do love my coffee. There is no doubt in my mind that I have a bona fide addiction to coffee. In fact, it will be a conscious decision on my part to not <\/em>supersize my XL with three milks, and to resist the the temptation to wring a few more milligrams of caffeine into my system.<\/p>\n

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Apparently this brings the Canadian Tim Horton’s coffee sizes into alignment with the larger sizes south of the border in the United States. Nothing against my American cousins, but in the age of Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution and all the general movement toward more reasonable portion sizes and an appreciation of restraint over gluttony, is this a smart move on the part of Tim Horton’s?<\/p>\n

Do we really need to supersize our coffees? And more importantly, will I be able to resist the siren song of four more ounces?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Did you hear the latest? Starting tomorrow at select Tim Hortons locations in Kingston and Sudbury, the small coffee size will no longer be available, the medium and large will become the small (10 oz) and medium (14 oz) respectively, and the new extra large will be a whopping 24 oz — that outsizes Starbucks’ … Continue reading “Supersizing Timmy”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadianisms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5990"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5995,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5990\/revisions\/5995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}