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LINDSAY TOMAKA
Special to The Leader
The new Tim Hortons sandwich menu is like a typical college campus; many different sandwiches, all inhabiting the same menu. There have been mixed reviews from students across campus, so The Leader decided to have its own taste test.
Sophomore business marketing and computer informations systems double major Erin Gibson and sophomore bio major Ashley Feind found joy in their crispy chicken sandwiches. They both mentioned that they liked that the new menu had “more variety,” and eventually wanted to try everything on the new menu.
Well, so did The Leader. But we did it all in one sitting.
If you’ve taken a few foreign language classes you’ve probably come across that one kid who talks with the ridiculously-forced accent and thinks they’re practically fluent. But, at the end of the day, you’re still in a 100-level French class.
The annoying French wannabe is the Chicken Salad Croissant sandwich. It’s chicken salad with tomatoes on top of lettuce delicately placed between two halves of a croissant. It has a fresh taste and is a good summer sandwich, but is it worth $4.59? Probably not. The croissant doesn’t make it anything special, it’s still just an average sandwich.
The California Turkey sandwich is the girl who is always tan and has the perfect beach waves even in winter. Just because you’ve got the look doesn’t mean you’re a California girl, and just because this sandwich has avocado doesn’t make it a California-style sandwich.
The turkey, tomatoes and lettuce are good, but the avocado and honey dijon mustard made the multigrain ciabatta bread a little soggy. At $5.99 it’s one of the most expensive sandwiches.
Bacon, tomatoes, lettuce and avocado on multigrain ciabatta bread make up the Avocado BLT. The Avocado BLT sandwich is the hot guy at the bar who just ordered a scotch on the rocks. He looks good, he sounds good, but when you talk to him he has no personality.
The Avocado BLT looks good and sounds good but it comes up short on flavor. This $4.99 sandwich is bland, and nothing with bacon should ever be bland.
Everyone knows at least one guy who, everytime he goes out, drinks way too much — like it’s a crime to just have three beers. That’s the Italiano Grilled Bagel.
It’s delicious, with pepperoni, ham, mozzarella, red onion and spinach with pesto on a sundried tomato asiago bagel — but it has so much meat it’s overwhelming. This is the other most expensive sandwich, at $5.99. It has 640 calories and clearly proves that just because it has spinach doesn’t mean it’s healthy.
The $4.99 Mozzarella Pesto Panini, with mozzarella, tomatoes, and spinach with pesto on sourdough panini bread, is the girl who straightens her long, shiny, Herbal-Essences-infused hair every day but always misses the one spot in the back. The Mozzarella Pesto Panini is so close to perfect — if only it was on ciabatta bread instead of being a panini.
The kid with the crazy bedhead and rumpled clothes who shows up to class late every day is the Steak Fajita Wrap. The taste was lacking and eating it was a wet and dripping mess. It doesn’t seem possible that the tomatoes, cheddar cheese, pepper and onion blend, and steak with chipotle sauce on a white tortilla wrap could be so sad; but at $4.99, it was.
Lastly, there’s the Chicken Fajita Wrap who is the really cool kid from another country. They’re different and exotic and you feel special just being able to talk to them. Tomatoes, cheddar cheese, pepper and onion blend, and chicken with chipotle sauce on a white tortilla wrap come together to make a remarkable and zesty wrap that is worth the $4.59.
While The Leader might suggest some of these sandwiches, we definitely wouldn’t recommend eating them all in one sitting.