To be honest, they should be called "Donut Plugs"
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
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Or all hook and loop, velcro.
Or all cotton swabs, q-tips.
Or all face tissues, kleenex.
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.
Yeah that’s stupid that’d be like calling printable camera film a Polaroid. NO ONE would EVER do that!!!
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
I think you could even convince English people that "merry fizzlebombs" and "upsy stairsies" are some kind of regional slang. Might even get away with "breaddystack" or "rickedy-pop" if you play your cards right.
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That there is a Timbit
a Tim Hortons™️ Timbit™️
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.
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You have to say snoggletarts out loud with a British accent.
Doughnut balls
We all know the holes are sent to Valhalla.
in French: pets de nonne (nun's farts)
France really is doing it to itself
In Japan they’re just doughnut balls. Mister Donut calls them “pops.”
I call them dough nuts.
I just call them type II diabetes
Bread Berries
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