Coffee Chain Tim Hortons in Canada does Harry Potter donuts and ppl lose their minds

I'm very pleased to see another huge uncancellable institution delivering a two-finger salute to the howling mob. More of this, please.

Yeah my friend who rainbow and inclusive and couldn't finish a sentence with JK Rowlings name without saying "TERF Bitch" in front of me..until I glared at him.. also bought, played and enjoyed the Hogwarts game. Fucking bizarre.

I agree that the books aren't fantastically well written..though I did love book 4- her world building is incredible and blends the believable and fantastical so well.

Tim Hortons are going to sell A LOT of Harry Potter doughnuts.

Meanwhile tbe "hateful"authir has set up a childrens charity, a rape counselling charity, donated to medical chairities, helped with legal funds for vulnerable women and children etc

But shes the "evil" one

Fair play to the marketing people at Tim Horton! They have just used house colours for icing and those sugar paste images for each house slapped it on their standard product and lo! Instant mad amounts of free publicity.
Having said that I would buy a fuck ton. Hufflepuff forever!
I was so irritated by all this Harry Potter related trans stuff I looked up how much money Daniel Radcliffe and the other young actors made and still make from it. It is buckets and buckets of cash like 50 million originally for Dan for example. Plus a cut from all merch with his image. And guess how much they have given back because of how upset they are? The amount would seem to be zero.

When in Edinburgh las year, we ended up in a bar/cafe/escape room that was just scraping along the "its magic/myth themed, not HP" boundary, while practically falling over themselves to say "we donate to Mermaids" for certain products.

They just looked like twats... they were benefiting from HP, obvioulsly loved it but didnt want to admit it.

People on the ground don't buy into the JKR hatred.

Or even if they do, they still love HP more. I'm in fandom, and this conundrum is all over the place, with so many fans going, "I don't want to give money to JKR, but I want to read/watch/play this HP thing, what do I do!?" I suspect a lot of it is performative, but what matters is that in the end, they always end up consuming the HP thing, one way or another.

Oh yeah - the game (which was actually a pretty decent game although I never finished it) was like literal genocide of course.

I did a re-listen to all the audiobooks recently and I think that, yep, they're no great work of literature, but what Rowling did incredibly well, was to generate the spark of imagination that this world could plausibly exist alongside the boring Muggle world - and that captured imaginations and got people reading - and I can't fault her for that - however hard they try to make HP verboten.

Fully grown die hard Potter Adults though - they're fucking odd (and I say that as someone who has a couple of Hufflepuff hoodies).

Didn't they have a massive tantrum when a new HP game was released? And yet it still sold very well. I suspect TH sales won't dip during this promotion either.

There was a huge to-do about a Harry Potter themed trail in a park in Vancouver last year - of course it all sold out. People on the ground don't buy into the JKR hatred.

Sadly no obvious evidence that they’re over here :(

Is it just me, or is this article subtly pro-GC? The quotes chosen to represent the TRA side are pretty unhinged, while the representatives of Tim Horton's sound completely normal and enthusiastic. Not to mention the strategic placing of JKR's pictures...

Also, I don't even like doughnuts, but I want a set, but we don't have Tim Horton's in France...

That’s the one! Veeeeery long time ago 😬

McMaster?

Are they definitely being sold in the UK or just Canada? I just showed DD and she wants one. We have a Tim Horton drive through not too far away so hopefully they will be available here.

Hey! Your hometown, my alma mater town. Hard agree - Timmies used to be the best, are now nasty over-produced pap, but if the HP doughnuts are here in the UK, I’ll be making a pilgrimage to the nearest one.

The original Tim Horton's was in my hometown. Great coffee, really great doughnuts. We locals were proud when it became a Canadian institution.

They are massive produced shite now, but I'm almost tempted to pop into the one near me now (UK) for a Hogwarts set just for the fun of it.

What a bunch of absolute babies.

Harry Potter themed doughnuts do not count as trans genocide, or even remotely anti-trans. I really despair at the pathetic and childish collusion in the hysteria.

Quite funny really as if as many people support the trans lobby as they think then the doughnuts won't sell will they?

Krispy Kremes did HP themed donuts last summer didn't they?

Hortons are just copying them. They were house themed too.

A representative for Rowling's PR team said they would not be commenting.

Excellent response, because what can one say about such nonsense? And WTF is 2SLGBTQ+? Oh I suppose 2S is two spirit.

There is a small group of people who like to throw tantrums about this.

Yet the facts show that HP products sell well.

The suspiscious part of my brain is now starting go think some companies do it for the publicity now, including a pre planned retraction of the product to show how "kind" and "mistaken" they were.

Big companies, like Amazon, lego, Warner Bros, HBO just know it will sell and sell well.

These people are not well

I love the hysteria of the easily offended. Donuts / doughnuts 😆😆😆😆😆

Fucking snowflakes, a doughnut of all things. They need to get a grip