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minus-squareskozzii@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up46arrow-down2·1 year agoShow 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.
minus-squareSchmidtGenetics@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down24·edit-21 year agoSure, 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.
minus-squarelobut@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up24arrow-down1·1 year agoI 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.
minus-squareApepollo11@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·1 year agoGenericisation. 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.
minus-squareMouselemming@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·1 year agoAspirin (and bandaids in the US)
minus-squareAlbbi@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·edit-21 year agoKitty Litter ** heard this one on the podcast Under the Influence Spotify link.
minus-squareI_Fart_Glitter@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·1 year agoRecently 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.
minus-squareSpicy_Canada_Dry@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7arrow-down2·1 year agothey are mini filled doughnuts and larger than Timbits. its not the same thing, just because its small and round wont make it a timbit.
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.