Results: As Canadian As Tim Hortons

What can be more Canadian than this? With storm after storm pummeling the east coast of Canada, a video of a man skating down the streets of Saint John, New Brunswick is going viral. In the video above, you can see Cory Hamilton skating up and down the icy streets before placing his order at the Tim Hortons drive-through and skating off with his coffees in hand. Have you ever enjoyed a Tim Hortons coffee?

Tim Hortons (no apostrophe grammar police) is a Canadian fast food chain founded in 1964, and now has over 4,613 restaurants in fourteen countries. The company has its headquarters in Oakville, Ontario, Canada. Although it was bought by the American-owned Burger King in 2015, and has many international locations, it is still considered as Canadian as -- well, "nanaimo bars". Here are some fun facts about Tim Hortons to warm you up on this cold winter day. How many did you know?

Now about that apostrophe... Tim Horton (the hockey player founder) started the chain, so logic would say the name Tim Hortons needs one. It is possessive, isn't it? It is HIS coffee chain. And in fact, it did originally start out as Tim Horton Donuts, and then briefly change to Tim Horton's, before reverting back to the present Tim Hortons. The story goes, in 1977, the newly powerful Parti Québecois passed La charte de la langue française, or Bill 101, which made French the sole official language in Quebec. It became illegal for businesses to advertise English names at the risk of facing large fines; the apostrophe in Tim Horton's was an exclusively English punctuation mark. So rather than adopt separate branding—on everything from signage to napkins—the company changed their name, worldwide, to Tim Hortons. So, whether you are Canadian or American, whether you have ever had a double double before or not, what do you think?

And while we're on the subject, which is it, donut or doughnut? I've used both in this survey. The official dictionary spelling of the word is doughnut with donut generally being listed as a variant of the preferred original spelling. Doughnut is the original spelling of the word, coming onto the scene in the early 1800s. The Oxford English Dictionary lists Washington Irving's reference to doughnuts in his 1809 History of New York as the first published use of the word. Since the founding of American doughnut chain Dunkin' Donuts, in 1950, this spelling has increased steadily and rapidly. So are you team donut or team doughnut?

The dutchie is a Canadian doughnut popularized by the Tim Hortons chain. It is a square, yeast-lifted doughnut containing raisins that is coated with a sugary glaze. It was previously one of two doughnuts (along with the apple fritter) that had been available on the menu since the start. The dutchie and apple fritter were the chain's most popular doughnuts. Have you ever eaten, used or heard the term "Dutchie"?