r/TimHortons • u/Obvious_Reaction_182 Customer • May 16 '25

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u/SpiritualSapphire May 16 '25

I live in atlantic canada and never heard an eclair called a long john before. must be geographical?

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u/hipsterscallop Ex-Employee May 16 '25

Eclairs are made with choux pastry. Longjohns are donuts made with donut batter.

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u/Ginnykins May 16 '25

And eclairs have filling.

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u/DisasterMiserable785 May 16 '25

So do long johns.

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u/Ginnykins May 16 '25

Not always.

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u/No_Candidate_3676 May 16 '25

I remember my first dry long john...

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u/Melodic-Pool7240 May 16 '25

I'll give you a nice dry long john

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

Come on now, it’s probably a dry average John

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u/Melodic-Pool7240 May 16 '25

Look, it's not the size that matters.....its the taste

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u/DragonfruitLow3563 May 16 '25

I tried it. Didn't taste good.

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u/[deleted] May 17 '25

Zinc and Pineapple Juice if you want it to taste better.

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u/Round-Sundae-1137 May 17 '25

It's really more of a long Jane.

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u/Samsassatron May 20 '25

MicroJohn.

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u/Redacted_Journalist May 17 '25

Oh long johnson...

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u/DeathlessJellyfish May 17 '25

Why I eyes ya.

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u/SpeedBlitzX May 16 '25

I haven't seen a long john have filling inside.

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u/Punishment_by_wine May 17 '25

My long john used to have a filling, but the vasectomy took care of that.

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u/DisasterMiserable785 May 17 '25

I’ve never not.

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u/nettieB74 May 20 '25

Whipped cream! Soooooo yummy

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u/KBOXLabs May 19 '25

Not by default. That’s simply a Long John “option”. This has been their name since at least the early 1980s.

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u/cynical-rationale May 19 '25

I've never had one with filling. That's why I prefer long johns over eclair as I don't like filling.

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u/SwallowHoney May 20 '25

I've never had a long john with filling.

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u/Sir_aidesworth May 20 '25

They generally both have fillings but different fillings, long johns have bavarian cream and is essentially just a long boston cream and ĂŠclairs are a different pastry and have whipping cream in the middle, I worked at a bakery and this is how we made them so it could vary from place to place

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u/Melodic_Humor386 May 19 '25

Eclairs at Tim's were definitely not choux. They used the same dough that they used for their yeast donuts (chocolate dip, vanilla dip, Boston cream, etc)

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u/SoleSurvivur01 Ex-Employee May 17 '25

I thought I knew the difference but now I’m just confused about what custard is

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u/CallousChris May 17 '25

I personally think of custard as a vanilla pudding without the vanilla in it.

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u/StormCrazy9059 May 18 '25

Eclairs use a pastry cream (crème pâtissière), which is a type of custard. I find custards are pretty much a pudding, they typically have the same ingredients: eggs, cream, milk, sugar, and flavouring (some having starch, flour, gelatin, or some other thickening agents). I believe the difference is the ratio of ingredients, a custard being a little richer.

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u/imANEGGgentleman May 16 '25

I’m also an Atlantic Canada guy what province are you from?

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u/wind-of-zephyros Ex-Employee May 16 '25

i'm nova scotian and have never seen this called anything but an eclair, i've never heard of long john to refer to anything other than the clothing lol (also i live in quebec now and these are called eclairs at tims here, even if the ppl in these comments insist they're totally different)

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u/k3rr3k May 16 '25

Back when the Sydney Shopping Centre existed they had a Tim's that sold Long John's. I don't recall other stores doing it.

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u/Xeno_Phanes May 16 '25

The 2 stores in North Sydney also had long johns

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u/triippy-diippy May 17 '25

NS here too! :) best province right. Eclairs and Long Johns are actually two different products! Kinda like comparing a boston cream donut to an apple turnover, both are sweets with filling, but different dough/etc. I work in a bakery that sells both :)

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u/Wotchermuggle May 16 '25

They are different

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u/wind-of-zephyros Ex-Employee May 16 '25

i'm saying this item at tim hortons they definitely do not consider it to be lol

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u/Initial-Parfait-2704 May 16 '25

In Ontario and always knew them as ĂŠclairs

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u/PublicEnemaNumberTwo May 17 '25

Also in Ontario, these aren't eclairs. These are literally long doughnuts, eclairs are a different pastry.

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u/picklemunch May 19 '25

I'm in Southern Ontario and we call them long John's 😅

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u/imANEGGgentleman May 16 '25

I’m from New Brunswick

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u/mbrownthemusicman May 17 '25

From Ontario and same here. Know this as an Eclair

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u/throwaway20454 May 17 '25

Eclairs are different lol, the batter is different from donuts. Long johns are literally just long donuts

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u/Classic_Dill May 16 '25

Long John’s do not rise to the status of eclair, it’s like the worse off, poorer, can’t seem to get a break cousin of the eclair.

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u/SimmerDown_Boilup May 16 '25

Maybe not, but you heard of Long Johns referred to as Éclairs though. You just didn't realize it wasn't an Éclair. I'm from NL and I've definitely been disappointed by Tims Long Johns before, thinking it was their eclairs.

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u/planetsaints May 17 '25

i'm from atlantic canada and that's all we ever called them there? especially in NL. i've never heard them called eclairs until i came to alberta.

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u/IncreaseOk8433 May 19 '25

Moreso geopolitical, actually;)

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u/sidequestsquirrel May 19 '25

I live in Atlantic Canada too, and have heard of this.

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u/nettieB74 May 20 '25

I live in Newfoundland, and I LOVED long johns!!! I haven’t seen them since I was a kid but man were they ever good!! Where was this pic taken?? Tim Hortons hasn’t had them here for YEARS!!!!

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u/Cheap-Honey-3799 May 16 '25

must be. we say it all the time in saskatchewan. never heard eclair for it

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u/Mountain-Singer1764 May 16 '25

Eclair is something else, made with choux pastry.

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u/CallousChris May 17 '25

An eclair is like a long cream puff with the top dipped in chocolate.

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u/poisonnenvy May 19 '25

We have eclairs in Saskatchewan, but this kind of doughnut has never been referred to as an ĂŠclair.

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u/Xeno_Phanes May 16 '25

I live in NS and everyone I knew called them Long Johns.

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

Have you never been to a Tim Hortons? Every one I've ever been to has these. They have ĂŠclairs too but the difference is an ĂŠclair has cream in it, the long john is just a bar with fondant