{"id":795,"date":"2010-02-25T14:12:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=795"},"modified":"2010-02-25T14:12:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-25T18:12:10","slug":"omg-%e2%80%93-there%e2%80%99s-a-quebec-issue-regarding-tims-canada-donut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"OMG \u2013 there\u2019s a Quebec-issue regarding Tim&#8217;s Canada donut?!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/new-tastes-canada-donut-en-fr1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-797\" title=\"new-tastes-canada-donut-en-fr1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/new-tastes-canada-donut-en-fr1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"190\" height=\"85\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Really, from the believe it or not \u2018Canada file\u2019:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><em>In English, it&#8217;s sold as the &#8220;Canada donut.&#8221; But in French, the chain hedges its bets by calling it the &#8220;beigne rouge et blanc&#8221;- the red-and-white doughnut, with no mention of the name Canada.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>And the fact that the sprinkles are in the shape of tiny maple leaves is pointed out on the chain&#8217;s website in English, but not in French.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><em><span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>It&#8217;s as if Tim Hortons hopes that the references to the Canadian flag on its doughnut will somehow escape notice in this province, where the flag is still associated with the sponsorship scandal.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\">Full story can be found in the Montreal Gazette: <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/sports\/2010wintergames\/knows\/2609339\/story.html\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/sports\/2010wintergames\/knows\/2609339\/story.html<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Georgia; font-size: 11pt;\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Really, from the believe it or not \u2018Canada file\u2019: \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In English, it&#8217;s sold as the &#8220;Canada donut.&#8221; But in French, the chain hedges its bets by calling it the &#8220;beigne rouge et blanc&#8221;- the red-and-white doughnut, with no mention of the name Canada. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 And the fact that the sprinkles are&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[35],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}