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A (tim) bit of news... The most popular classic Timbit in Canada in 2021 was the Chocolate Glazed – by a wide margin. Birthday Cake and Honey Dip were neck and neck for second and third place, Old Fashioned Plain was fourth and Sour Cream Glazed was in fifth. When looking at the top classic Timbits regionally, Chocolate Glazed came first in the West, Ontario and Quebec. In Atlantic provinces the Old Fashioned Plain was the most popular Timbit. Timbits have been around for 45 years. Some Timbit flavours from the past include Cotton Candy, Lemon Cake and churro. globally pasat flavours have included Matcha, Red Dates, Salted Egg Yolk and Pistachio.
Turning tim bits into ice cream The iconic flavours of Tim Hortons are coming soon to your freezer. The Tim Hortons Ice Cream lineup includes Salted Caramel Iced Capp®, Double Chocolate Donut, Birthday Cake Timbits®, Apple Fritter and Fruit Explosion. Tim Hortons Ice Cream is being made in partnership with the Tillsonburg, Ont. -based ice cream producer Shaw’s and is made with 100 per cent Canadian dairy.
HOW MUCH??!! Sublimotion, in Ibiza, Spain, is by far, the most expensive restaurant in the world, costing about $2,400 per head. (Yes, you read that right) This one-of-a-kind restaurant pushes the dining experience in bold new directions by combining food, art, and illusionism into a new, revolutionary concept that ventures far beyond the palate. The price tag includes a 20-course tasting menu, served by a team of twenty-five professionals, over the course of three hours. Architects, designers, engineers, illusionists, screenwriters, film directors and composers worked together to craft immersive audio/visual experiences to accompany Sublimotion’s Sci-Fi cuisine. The 3-hour banquet takes patrons on a journey through different times, places, and stages of emotion, from the bottom of the ocean to a sexy 20th-century cabaret to a futuristic dinner with friends in 2050 to a virtual reality fantasy world. A life experience that many say is worth every penny and more.
A foggy lesson A London fog is a hot tea-based drink that consists of Earl Grey tea, steamed milk, and vanilla syrup. And it has nothing at all to do with London (Ontario or England). It was invented in Vancouver, Canada, in the 1990s by Mary Loria. Loria, who was pregnant at the time, frequented Vancouver’s Buckwheat Cafe. Having an aversion to coffee and looking for a new drink, she asked for some steamed milk and vanilla added to her favourite brew, Earl Grey. She began ordering the drink at other cafes and recommending it to others, and so the trend spread. Despite conceiving the drink herself, Loria does not know who created the name, although we do the term ‘fog’ refers to the steamed milk. 54 | THE BOTTOM LINE SPRING 2022
