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[–] Grandwolf319@sh.itjust.works 55 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Tim bits is what we use in Canada

[–] SchmidtGenetics@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (10 children)

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.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 days ago (2 children)

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.

[–] T0RB1T@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 days ago

Guess I'm the 0.1%

[–] IrateAnteater@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago (1 children)

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.

[–] flicker@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 3 days ago

Or all hook and loop, velcro.

Or all cotton swabs, q-tips.

Or all face tissues, kleenex.

[–] Luci@lemmy.ca 22 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

There's plenty of examples of trademark names being used generically. Coke, hoover, Jacuzzi

[–] AngryishHumanoid@lemmy.world 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Bullshit, I've never directly asked my drug dealer for coke, we use code words.

[–] GiveOver@feddit.uk 10 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Coincidentally my drug dealer's code word for me is hoover

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 12 points 3 days ago

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.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 days ago

Or like calling all facial tissue "kleenex"

[–] TowardsTheFuture@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 days ago

Yeah that’s stupid that’d be like calling printable camera film a Polaroid. NO ONE would EVER do that!!!

[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago

Let me photoshop this picture of a kleenex to look like it's stuck to a velcro strip...

[–] BackgrndNoize@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

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