"Toront-Dough: Dough Canada: The Great Bite North: Tim Hortons with Stephanie Beatriz and Alana Johnston 🔪" is an episode of the podcast, Les Doughboys, hosted by Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell. "Toront-Dough: Dough Canada: The Great Bite North: Tim Hortons with Stephanie Beatriz and Alana Johnston 🔪" was released on October 3, 2024.
"Tomorrow… with Stephanie Beatriz & Alana Johnston" - @doughboyspod
Synopsis[]
Stephanie Beatriz (@stephaniebeatriz, Twisted Metal) and Alana Johnston 🔪 (@theonlyalanajohnston, "The Knife") join the 'boys to talk Toronto experiences, Pizza Pizza, and A&W before a review of Tim Hortons. Plus, a Beavertails Snack or Wack.
Recorded live at The Danforth Music Hall in Toronto on September 29, 2024.
Nick's intro[]
In 2008, the Toronto Maple Leafs won the Stanley Cup.
The Love Guru
Oh, it happened... in the film The Love Guru.
Written by and starring Toronto native Mike Myers in a Justin Trudeau-esque performance as Guru Pitka, the much-anticipated follow-up to the Austin Powers franchise was a commercial and critical disaster. Given the decades-long futility of the Toronto Maple Leafs franchise, it’s perhaps fitting that their only Stanley Cup Championship since 1967 took place in a movie that nobody saw or liked.
But despite the team’s real-life struggles, it’s a testament to the delusional power of fandom that the Leafs remain in the top-five in attendance in the National Hockey League. And it’s a testament to the team’s imprint on the national psyche that the country’s biggest fast-food chain was founded by and named for a Hall of Fame Leafs defenceman. The business-savvy enforcer opened his first donut-and-coffee shop in 1964 in Canada’s Hamilton (no, not a hip-hop musical about first prime minister, Sir John Macdonald, but a city in Southern Ontario). Within ten years, the chain had forty stores; by the '90s, that number was 500; and today, it’s over 5,000 — its sales alone account for over 20% of the nation’s food-service industry.
Tragically, addiction cut its namesake’s life short at the age of 44, but his legacy still towers like the CN… Tower: according to the company, “80% of Canadians visit a Tims in Canada at least once a month."
If you were born the year the Maple Leafs last appeared in the Stanley Cup Finals, you celebrated your 57th birthday this year. Since then, teams from US state of Florida, where hockey ranks sixth in sports popularity after the NFL, college football, Major League Baseball, the NBA, and NASCAR, have made the Stanley Cup Finals eight times. It’s possible, even probable, that many young Leafs fans will go from the cradle to the grave without their beloved team ever hoisting Lord Stanley’s Cup. But perhaps the legendary Leaf defenceman’s eponymous fried dough and roasted bean institution may serve as a sugary, caffeinated consolation prize. To quote a past Doughboys guest, Ontario’s own Norm Sousa, “Nothing more Canadian than a donut shop named after a hockey player.”
This week on Doughboys… we begin Toront-dough: Dough Canada: The Great Bite North: A Month-Long Culinary Tour of the Six, with Tim Hortons.
[This was also read in French by Miguel Gaultier.]
Fork rating[]
The Knife 🔪, The Spoonman, and Burger Boy at Tim Hortons
| guest / host | ordered | rating |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Wiger |
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2.5 Forks |
| Mike "Jerk King" Mitchell |
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5 Forks |
| Stephanie Beatriz |
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2 Forks |
| Alana Johnston 🔪 |
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5 Knives = 2 Forks |
| shared |
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It seems that Nick, Mitch, and Alana 🔪 went to Tim Hortons together, and then they all shared an order backstage. There were also a number of items in their photos that don't seem to have been mentioned or described during their review (see below).
This isn't canon, and isn't going on the Wiki, but Miguel offers a 0 fork score for Tim Hortons. Previous guest, Nick Ross, also sent his thoughts to Wiger, and believes it is no longer up to par and has too many new items; but still appreciates its ubiquitousness. Alana's Mother 🔪 and Father 🔪 also offers her thoughts from backstage.
They also discuss some other Canadian restaurants briefly.
- Mitch likes Pizza Pizza, but this shocked Alana 🔪.
- Alana 🔪 has never had A&W Canada because she asked to review it on Doughboys, but they did Smoke's instead, so now she is not allowed to have it.
Snack or Wack[]
Beavertails Pastry
In Snack or Wack, The Doughboys have a snack and rate it either 'snack' or 'wack.'
For this episode, they try a couple of varieties of Beavertails Pastries: The Classic, Coco Vanil', and Strawberry Cheesecake.
They don't actually rank them, but seem to enjoy them.
Also Nick noticed a subway stop in Toronto called Castle Frank. He really liked it, partly because his full legal name is Nicolas Frank Wiger, but sometimes he goes by Frank:
Let Me Be Frank 🌭[]
The Lovin' Spoonful "Summer in the City"
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Hot dog simmer in the city |
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Elvis Presley "Hound Dog"
| “ |
You ain't nothin' but a hot dog |
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Gordon Lightfoot "If You Could Read My Mind"
| “ |
If you could eat my frank, Wiges |
” |
Megalopolis
| “ | In this society, is this where we're eating? The only frankfurter that's available to us? My plan is a wiener people can dream about. A hotdogopolis.
When a fast-food empire dies, does it collapse in one terrible e.Coli poisoning scandal? No. But there comes a meal when people no longer eat there. Imagine today's society as a sausage link of civilization about to reach a burnt end. Don't let the chow destroy the frank ever! What about those standing in your way? Who like their hot dog the way it is? Good question, live audience member. When we ask these questions about the menu when there's a dialogue about specials and substitutions. That basically is Foodtopia! Directed by Frankfurter Ford Dogula! |
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In this segment, Mitch searches Google for 'hot dog' and discovers the latest news about hot dogs. They then discuss! This is the Canadian edition, so they search for Canadian news.
- First, Mitch finds an article about a Diddy party that had great hot dogs.
- Nick notes an article about Blue Jay's fans breaking a record for amount of hot dogs eaten during a game.
Roast Spoonman[]
Bag of Milk
| “ | Bag of Milk | ” |
–Ian Yamamoto | ||
Quotes[]
| “ | Toronto is like New York if you put it in a juicer and juiced out any interesting things and then you are left with traffic and Little Canada, that exhibit of small Canada. | ” |
–Mike Mitchell | ||
| “ | It's ok, Mitch, you can't lose a crowd you never had. | ” |
–Alana Johnston 🔪 | ||
| “ | I think the girlfriends in the crowd have been suffering for a loooong time. | ” |
–Stephanie Beatriz | ||
| “ | Nick: It was like licking a Garbage Pail Kid. Mitch:... like licking a Garbage Pail Kid?? |
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–The Doughboys re: Tim Hortons Flatbread Pizza | ||
The Live Feedbag[]
matthew b, conor m
| “ | What is your #1 Canadian snack that you're sneaking back over the border? | ” |
–Alyssa | ||
| guest / host | Canadian snack to take home |
|---|---|
| Nick Wiger | All Dressed Chips |
| Mike Mitchell | Coffee Crisp |
| Stephanie Beatriz | Maynard's Winegums |
| Alana Johnston 🔪 | Coffee Crisp |
| “ | What chicken preparation would you like to see in a chip form? | ” |
–Connor | ||
| guest / host | flavor of chicken chip |
|---|---|
| Nick Wiger | Lemon Pepper Garlic Chicken |
| Mike Mitchell | Swiss Chalet Sauce Chicken |
| Stephanie Beatriz | Nashville Hot Chicken |
| Alana Johnston 🔪 | Butter Chicken |
| “ | If you could name your child after any chain restaurant, which would you choose? | ” |
–Benny | ||
| guest / host | name for their child |
|---|---|
| Nick Wiger | Del Wiger |
| Mike Mitchell | Five Guy Mitchell
McDonald's Mitchell Harvey Mitchell |
| Alana Johnston 🔪 | Arby's |
Drops and Plugs[]
| reference | notes |
|---|---|
| Drake "Know Yourself" | in Mitch's drop (by Alex) |
| Twisted Metal | Stephanie's plug |
Related Episodes[]
| Toront-Dough episodes | Stephanie Beatriz episodes | Alana Johnston 🔪 episodes |
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