BARBARA'S TCHATZKAHS

Tim Horton's has finally come to New York. Krispy Kreme didn't do so well here despite all the hype, and I wonder how ole' Timmy will do in the Big Apple. My ex is Canadian and I am still close to a lot of his family north of the border. When I visit, I always stop at Tim's for my coffee and at least once have a Maple Glazed Donut. Heaven! (I am on a medical food plan and have been for a number of years so one a year is about all I allow myself. ) Tim's is good. VERY good, in my opinion. So give it a chance. Obviously a warm bowl of oatmeal and dried cranberries, an apple or scrambled egg whites are my usual choices... and when I am in the neighborhood, an onion bagel with cream cheese and chives from Ess-A-Bagel is the quintessential NYC experience. (When I could eat regular food after my recent surgery - this was the first thing I asked for!) So take the poll at the article's source, linked below... and let us all know. Can we give Timbits a chance?...

The late but still great & unmatchable Rodney Dangerfield had a punchline that went "he was a quiet man." The patter went that this was the line you always heard about some psycho who shot up his home or hacked his neighbors. The one thing I learned when doing comedy - the truth, well said - it always the biggest laugh. Today, Rodney was right again. Man attacks passerby with machete; throws Molotov cocktails at police car A lunatic who randomly attacked a man with a machete fought off cops by hurling Molotov cocktails at them from the roof of his Queens home Tuesday, police said. Felipe Velasquez, 21, began the rampage that set a police car ablaze because "I had a bad day," he told police. Velasquez erupted about 5:30 p.m. when he whacked Bernard Hoffman, 45, in the head with the machete in front of the Richmond Hill home he shares with his uncle, police said. Using an umbrella, Hoffman, who was visiting the neighborhood, outdueled his assailant, disarming hi...