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To be honest, they should be called “Donut Plugs”
Mouth beads
But then 5 of them would need to be connected in a line, right?
And oral beads would be more accurate
Donut bungs.
Donut swarf.
Make sure yours are flared before you eat them or they could get stuck
Tim bits is what we use in Canada
What? They’re donut holes, Timbits is only from Tim hortons, that’s a trademark name.
It would be like calling all breakfast sandwiches McMuffins dude.
Show a Canadian this picture, ask them what it is, and you will get a 99.9% answer of Tim bits.
You may be technically correct, but you’re wrong. Lol.
Guess I’m the 0.1%
Sure, let’s go down to McDonald’s and get “timbits”.
That was because tim hortons was the only place for a while, that’s stopped being the case about a decade ago when other places started offering them too.
I know what you’re saying but at the same time, I’m living in the GTA. Everyone I know calls them timbits, correctly or incorrectly.
Genericisation. It happens all the time!
Other examples (that are at least used generically in the UK).
Astroturf, bubble wrap, hoover, hovercraft, jacuzzi, rollerblades and tarmac.
Aspirin
(and bandaids in the US)
Kitty Litter
** heard this one on the podcast Under the Influence Spotify link.
Recently learned that “dumpster” is a brand name for a “skip bin.”
“This skip bin fire of a government agency” just doesn’t have the same ring to it though.
they are mini filled doughnuts and larger than Timbits. its not the same thing, just because its small and round wont make it a timbit.
I’ve never once heard anyone ever refer to them as anything other than “Timbits”, just as I’ve never heard anyone ask me to pass them a “facial tissue”, and I’ve never heard of “hook and loop fastener” shoes. The word got genericized.
That was because Tim’s was the only place, that’s since been changed a decade ago and hasn’t been the case since then.
It’s not a genericized term like Kleenex and escalator, sorry.
In every place I’ve been to in Canada and every to every Canadian I’ve known, yes it is.
Other places absolutely can’t advertise as Timbits, that’s a trademarked name.
Don’t make shit up dude.
I didn’t claim that. I don’t think you understand what people in this thread are saying.
Other companies can’t advertise their products as “Kleenex”, but that doesn’t stop most people from calling all facial tissues Kleenex.
Most Canadians call them Timbits.
In every place I’ve been to in Canada
Canada is already a place, what other “places” would you be referring to other than place (stores) like Tim Hortons, McDonalds, etc. in your comment?
Yes Canadians may incorrectly call them Tim Bits, but other places can’t since the trademark is owned by Tim Hortons. No need to lie that other places call it that when they can’t or they would get sued and easily lose dude….
It is in Canada. You show any Canadian the picture in this post, and they will tell you it’s a timbit.
Or all hook and loop, velcro.
Or all cotton swabs, q-tips.
Or all face tissues, kleenex.
Sorry dude, they’re timbits
A decade ago when Tim’s was the only place that had them sure, thats changed since.
Nope. Timbits.
They’re called ‘timbits’ to honour the founder who died in a horrific car accident. All that was left of him were bits of Tim.
Or like calling all facial tissue “kleenex”
Let me photoshop this picture of a kleenex to look like it’s stuck to a velcro strip…
Google, xerox, velcro, escalator are all trademark names as well, but people use them in a general sense. Sometimes trademark names become so popular that they get used in a general way, I don’t know what’s confusing you, this is a fairly common phenomenon
Timbits. even if they are not form Timmy’s
Tim Horton’s sucks now so they should always be “not from Timmy’s”
Dunkin Donuts called them Munchkins, so I sometimes call any donut roles Munchkins.
All my adhesive bandages are band-aids
That there is a Timbit
in French: pets de nonne (nun’s farts)
France really is doing it to itself
Doughnut balls
We all know the holes are sent to Valhalla.
Munchkins. Idc if they aren’t from Dunkin’.
I call them dough nuts.
In Japan they’re just doughnut balls. Mister Donut calls them “pops.”
Am I the only one that finds the whole “fake British words” genre of meme painfully unfunny?
Maybe if Brits would stop saying ridiculous things lol
You go enjoy your hushpuppies, elephant ears, bear claws, snickerdoodles and hootenannies.
You have to say snoggletarts out loud with a British accent.
Yes
Bread Berries
*doughnut, not do nut.
Let him enjoy his pastries anyway he likes
I just call them type II diabetes
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There is no drug more powerful than a powdered doughnut
