I know Starbucks has infected the world like sores on a leper, and my taste has never run to the burnt harsh beans that so many seem to covet. A coffee snob I am not, unless it is in reverse. It needs to be brown, hot and mild. It can't be instant, bitter, too strong, or Starbucks (which seems to be all of the aforementioned). It cannot cost over $7 a kilo, it cannot have passed through the digestive tract of a jungle cat, or any cat for that matter, or actually any mammal, it cannot be sold in any size called "grande".

I come from a country where coffee is best brewed over a fire with some spruce leaves and ashes mixed in, a country that cannot show up for hockey practice with out a double double, a country that has absolutely no pretensions about its coffee and it likes it medium. How very UnAmerican. Thank Goodness!

I am a Timmie's fan. Love that bland coffee in my beautiful bland country where all the bland people have thought up such things as 1) Telephone 2) Insulin 3) The light bulb 4) the WonderBra 5) the Robertson Screw (no it's not sex at a hockey game!!) 6) the Zipper 7) Basketball (yes read it and weep you Yanks) 8) Superman 9) Road Lines (yes yes that's ours - how bland can you get?) and last but not least 10) the Bloody Caesar (okay maybe the Blackberry - an also important invention)

Anyway, back to the coffee. Timmie's is very good, our dog loves it (see picture) and actually after it passes through the digestive tract of a chihuahua it is ready to be sold to Starbucks!