Penfold - Eddie Shack Was No Tim Horton (3)

The donut is often thought of as the unofficial national food in Canada. The donuts store is located in every intersection and rest stop, celebrated in song and story as symbols of Canadian identity. In Canada, the biggest donut Shop is Tim Hortons. The first chain of Tim Hortons is founded in Hamilton, Ontario in 1964, and it offered only two products – coffee and donuts. But as consumer tastes grew, so did the choices at Tim Hortons in 1980s. Tim Hortons brought about Muffins, cakes, cookies and so on. In this article, the author takes the humble donut in its historical context, examining how one deep-fried confectionary became, not only a mass commodity, an edible symbol of Canadian. Compare to Unite states, Slurpees and summer with American, Tim Hortons and winter with Canada-is surprisingly rich in its use of national imagery. Moreover, the donut is an unpretentious blue-collar food in Canada, and it has become a vehicle for quirky depictions of local and national life. The donut is a window onto key developments in twentieth-century Canada, such as the growth of a 'consumer society,' and it is the relationship between big business and community.