Monday, October 02, 2006

Anyone for Coffee...?

No wonder Canadians talk like crazy, they're all so amped on the caffeine. Take a bus downtown and on every corner there is a coffee shop. People walk around with cups equivalent in size to a large coke at maccas, full of coffee.
On campus there is about 8 Starbucks, one Tim Hortons (another major coffee chain), and a smattering of various smaller chains and independent retailers (not counting the restaurants and pubs). With the average Canadian drinking about 2.6 cups a day, its no suprise that about one third of tap water is used to make coffee.

This photo is of a corner downtown on Robson St. On the opposite corner to the Starbucks, there is another starbucks, and about 3 or 4 doors down is another major coffee franchise. On one side of the street in one block there are about 6 coffee shops. Bloody ridiculous!

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

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Anonymous said...

Tidy, nothing like alot of coffee, i recall when I was in DC dropping into:
http://www.panerabread.com/
For a bucket of coffee :-)

Not too sure if they have them over in Canada... they have free wifi too... ahh... pristine conditions.

Simo said...

All the starbucks here have free wifi i think, so do this other place called 'the coffee bean' or something like that. Some Maccas over here offer it too!

Anonymous said...

We want to know what smells so bad over there in those coffee shops. They aren't wiffi in Glenferrie Road???
Aunt R

Simo said...

hehehe, 'wifi' is wireless internet!

Anonymous said...

Still no pictures of furry animals, Sime!!! :)

Anonymous said...

go the french vanilla cap from tim hortons and you'll see why they are all addicted...