Coffee At Sea: Canada Arms Up!

With the United States Navy, under the solid guidance of CNO Admiral Roughead, shedding fru-fru, gold-plated, 5th-Generation stealth coffee, other regional competitors are stepping up, ordering coffee that might, in a conflict, out-awaken and over-stimulate our poor U.S. sailors who are being forced to ingest the tepid, COIN-inspired generic coffee now deployed aboard U.S. vessels.

Canada has decided their Navy will run on Tim Hortons coffee:

The Canadian Forces has issued a tender looking for a company to supply its beloved Tim Hortons coffee to navy customers in the Halifax Regional Municipality.

"There shall be no acceptable substitute," according to the tender issued. "Tim Hortons has been determined by MARLANT" — the navy's Maritime Forces Atlantic command — "as the product of choice based on expressed customer taste and preferences for boosting morale in Afghanistan, Sudan and Sierra Leone."

Sailors also want it on their ships, the tender documents state.

Jeri Grychowski, a spokeswoman for Canada's Atlantic fleet, said the tender is for a three-year period. The navy's current supply agreement expires at the end of the month.

Grychowski said the navy has spent $405,000 on Tim Hortons coffee over the last three years.

And the Canadians love this coffee so much they spend something like 4-5 million dollars a year to deploy a small Tim Hortons store in Kandahar. Crazy.

I just wonder how all that Tim Hortons brewed out there for military service, is, as per company policy, actually served within twenty minutes of brewing!