Jimmies are brown , and tasty, Sprinkles are not! Even when in night school at Harvard always went across the square for ice cream. In Connecticut they were called shots.
I wonder why that word was used years ago. Vanilla frozen custard with chocolate jimmies…. It is all Natural and has the best taste of any coffee ice cream in the marketplace. No Jimmies on this product.
I grew up in southern NH and they were always called jimmies and the different colored ones were either rainbow jimmies or sprinkles.
My daughter was born in GA and we moved all over the states military family , but I raised her right — she calls them jimmies. Barbara, Aug. I grew up in Philadelphia and they were always jimmies there too. Not just New England calls them that. Originally from Boston area, grew up in central NH, everyone I know called them jimmies!
Moved to PA and no one knows what they are. Have to call them sprinkles here. When I moved to Canada in , and tried to order a cone with Jimmies they looked at me like I was from Mars! The brown ones were always the chocolate jimmies and the rainbow ones were rainbow jimmies in Lowell. I definitely knew about the word jimmies as a kid growing up in the Hartford area. But I think for me shots are chocolate and sprinkles are rainbow colored. His name was Jimmy. Because he was the birthday boy his mother put some chocolate sprinkles in his ice cream.
When the other children asked for some she said no, these are jimmies, for his special day. That is what we called them in our house anyway. I grew up in Milwaukee, WI. Always a treat to have a cone with jimmies on top,. They were always referred to as Jimmies. No idea where the name came from it was just a given. Some people called them chocolate covered ants:. Did any one have jimmie sandwiches! Butter, wonder bread and jimmies!
Yum sometimes we added bananas. Jimmies were chocolate and for ice cream and sprinkles were all colors and were for cakes and cupcakes. To me, jimmies are chocolate, and tiny logs. Sprinkles are multi-colored, and can be log-shaped or round and go on cupcakes.
I was born and raised in CT. Sprinkles are very small pieces of confectionery used as a decoration or to add texture to desserts such as brownies, cupcakes, doughnuts or ice cream.
The tiny candies are produced in a variety of colors and are generally used as a topping or a decorative element. Take the poll! Rosenthal, Jack. Jim Crow quickly became a slang term for anything having to do with African-Americans, particularly items of a racist bent, such as the Jim Crow laws that segregated blacks from whites in the South. It's these regional differences in food nomenclature that can drive endless discussions. Their origin is uncertain, but they may have evolved out of the pharmaceutical use of sugar, as they were a miniature version of comfits.
The New York Times. Sprinkles, Shots or Jimmies? Second, at no point have the candy sprinkles been called jim-jams, a link in the etymological chain one would expect if the one were a shortening of the other.
They maintain that Jimmies come in chocolate variety and sprinkles comes in multicolour. Question: Why do some people call ice cream sprinkles jimmies?
Here is one version of the history of Jimmies from the Philadelphia Inquirer "Back in the s, the Just Born candy company of Bethlehem produced a topping called chocolate grains.
But what about those colorful bits of sugar that decorate your ice cream cone? Whether you like them as rainbow as a pride flag, or in shades of chocolate only, do you call them jimmies or sprinkles? ISBN This material may not be reproduced without permission. Later that decade, the sprinkles show up in Ottawa and Spokane newspapers, and by , Sunshine is producing a Chocolate Sprinkle cookie topped with marshmallow and sprinkles.
Which had vanilla, chocolate or you could do a swirl of both. According to the brand Mr. It has been said that sprinkles were called Jimmies after a gentleman called Jimmy who ran sprinkles machine at the Born Candy Company in Bethlehem. Jimmies are long, tube-like, rod sprinkles that pack a lot of flavor and color to your baked goods.
They're a favorite for many bakers because they're an easy way to cover cupcakes, cookies, and cakes without using too much product. The Nashua, N. And I'm not alone. Hence, they started calling the chocolate sprinkles "Jimmies. Jimmies is a term with a fun story: legend holds that the Just Born Candy Company in Pennsylvania producer of PEEPS candy began producing sprinkles in the s and, since a gentleman named Jimmy ran the sprinkles machine, the product was named after its maker.
Chocolate Sprinkles 10c pkg. Why Do Pirates Love Parrots? They come in multi-colors or chocolate and are usually what people refer to when they say "sprinkles". And it was as intense as any that came before. Nearly half came back in favor of calling both colors jimmies. So where did the term originate? The tale, which a rep for the company insisted is still accurate, goes that the confection chocolate only, back then was named after one Jimmy Bartholomew, the employee who worked the machine that made them.
But a deeper dive shows that Just Born may not have been the first to produce them. Jimmies is used — not contiguously — throughout the Northeast and Midwest. Some respondents differentiated not solely by length or color, but by application, saying that jimmies were only called that on ice cream, but should be referred to as sprinkles when on donuts. That dictionary, citing various book and newspaper sources over the years, notes that the dividing line in Mid-Atlantic region seems to fall in Mercer County, N.
Northern Mercer County is sprinkles land, but Trenton and its surrounding towns, which sit in the southern part of the county, lean toward jimmies. From there, that tendency stretches through South Jersey and into Philadelphia — at least parts of it. Based on an informal telephone survey, Billy Penn found that sprinkles is the most common word on menus in ice cream stores all over the city.
Historically accurate Franklin Fountain is an outlier — it labels them jimmies. Not necessarily.
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