food for thought

i don't know why but i always see tim hortons' attempts at breaking into the breakfast market as lame and strained... breakfast sandwich - blantent rebranding of mcdonalds' egg mcmuffin. homestyle hashbrown - what exactly is homestyle about a frozen lump of potato substance zapped in the microwave? bagel B.E.L.T - if you are what you eat, you'll soon find yourself with a bagel shaped belt around your middle... i'll always go for mcdonalds' greasy, fattening goodness before i even look at tims for breakfast. always. i might be a fast food breakfast snob. but i think i'm ok with that.

anyhoodle... i was interested in how the breakfast items stacked up nutritionally... and they don't. breakfast foods from either establishment are NOT part of a well-balanced breakfast. notice how canada's food guide doesn't have grease in any category? but i guess we can still compare how bad the food is for you.

here's the breakdown from the nutrition calculators provided at each establishment's respective website:

it is so very curious to me why timmys has a different calculator for canada and the US... apparently the caloric and fat values miraculously change when you cross that imaginary line that seperates the nations?

also, did you know that tim hortons claims that their coffee (any size) has ZERO calories? how can it have ZERO calories? in fact, it has zeroes across the board for all measures. mcdonalds doesn't even have their coffee on their list so there's no way to compare...

Tim Hortons Nutritional Information

McDonald's Nutrition Calculator