Sprinkles or jimmy's

[Phoenix87x]

Dumb thread I know, but someone just gave me crap about it at work, so here we go.





These things that go on ice cream. Do you call them sprinkles or jimmys?

[TAC]

Jimmys!!!

I'm in the Atlantic Northeast.

[Chino]

The fuck is a Jimmy?

[pg1067]

When I was in college, I worked at a Baskin-Robbins.  First time someone came in and asked for "jimmies," I looked at him like he had two heads.  I had literally no clue what he was talking about.  Outside of that context and occasionally online, I've never heard of it.  It just sounds weird.

Sprinkles all the way!

The fuck is a Jimmy?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinkles#Names

[Cool Chris]

Haven't we discussed this here before? I have never heard them called Jimmies. I Googled "Jimmies" and of course because it is 2022, the first result asked the "Age-Old Question of Whether Jimmies Are Racist."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wn7y5b/the-age-old-question-of-whether-jimmies-are-racist

[El Barto]

Jimmys!!!

I'm in the Atlantic Northeast.

You call hamburgers 'steamed hams'?
Uh, It's a regional dialect.
Uh-huh. Eh, what region?
Uh...upstate New York.
Really? Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams'.
Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.
Chalmers: I see.

[Puppies_On_Acid]

The fuck is a Jimmy?

My next door neighbors name...

I've literally never heard the term jimmys used for sprinkles before.

[TAC]

You call hamburgers 'steamed hams'?
Uh, It's a regional dialect.
Uh-huh. Eh, what region?
Uh...upstate New York.
Really? Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams'.
Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.
Chalmers: I see.

This should come as no surprise, but I have no idea what that is from.

[Anguyen92]

You call hamburgers 'steamed hams'?
Uh, It's a regional dialect.
Uh-huh. Eh, what region?
Uh...upstate New York.
Really? Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams'.
Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.
Chalmers: I see.

This should come as no surprise, but I have no idea what that is from.

Holy crap.  It just dawned onto me that that Simpsons' episode that the quote came from was more than 25 years ago.

[Lonk]

Haven't we discussed this here before? I have never heard them called Jimmies. I Googled "Jimmies" and of course because it is 2022, the first result asked the "Age-Old Question of Whether Jimmies Are Racist."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wn7y5b/the-age-old-question-of-whether-jimmies-are-racist

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55663.msg2777947#msg2777947

I had a deja-vu moment because even PG story sounded similar 

[axeman90210]

The correct answer is sprinkles. Trust me, I'm an industry insider

[Melphina]

I have never in my life heard of anyone ever calling these things anything but sprinkles, never mind "Jimmys." But that totally sounds like something northeast dudes would call things they put on their food for some reason. Reminds me of "yinz."

[Zydar]

Sprinkles. Or in Swedish; strössel.

[King Postwhore]

Up here in N.E. we call them Jimmy's but of course I've heard sprinkles as well.  And only the chocolate ones for me. No rainbows. A man has his reputation to uphold. 

[chknptpie]

Up here in N.E. we call them Jimmy's but of course I've heard sprinkles as well.  And only the chocolate ones for me. No rainbows. A man has his reputation to uphold. 

You must have a reputation to eat things that look like rodent poop then... lol

Sprinkles, but makes sense since I'm out in AZ. Never heard them called Jimmys out in the ole west.

[King Postwhore]

LOLOL.  Boy verses girl thing I think?

[Stadler]

The fuck is a Jimmy?

As a Connecticut resident, that's embarrassing. 

I've had this conversation multiple times.   "Sprinkles" is the corporate, "I wish I was cool, but I'm not, and I never will be" answer.   "Jimmy's" is the Chuck Norris/Wolfking answer. 


(I'm talking smack; my go-to is chocolate chip ice cream, sometimes with hot fudge and chocolate sprinkes.  When I order, 8 times out of 10 I say "sprinkles". 

[Stadler]

Haven't we discussed this here before? I have never heard them called Jimmies. I Googled "Jimmies" and of course because it is 2022, the first result asked the "Age-Old Question of Whether Jimmies Are Racist."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wn7y5b/the-age-old-question-of-whether-jimmies-are-racist

FFS.

[Chino]

The fuck is a Jimmy?

As a Connecticut resident, that's embarrassing. 

I've had this conversation multiple times.   "Sprinkles" is the corporate, "I wish I was cool, but I'm not, and I never will be" answer.   "Jimmy's" is the Chuck Norris/Wolfking answer.

For real? I've lived 33 years in this state and don't think I have ever (literally never) heard anyone refer to them as "jimmies" until this thread.

[Stadler]

The fuck is a Jimmy?

As a Connecticut resident, that's embarrassing. 

I've had this conversation multiple times.   "Sprinkles" is the corporate, "I wish I was cool, but I'm not, and I never will be" answer.   "Jimmy's" is the Chuck Norris/Wolfking answer.

For real? I've lived 33 years in this state and don't think I have ever (literally never) heard anyone refer to them as "jimmies" until this thread.

Haha.  I was editing at the same time you replied; I'm just busting on you.  I think age factors in as well.  I rarely EVER hear the term "jimmies" anymore and I have had to explain it to people that were younger - though not by much - than I am.

[pg1067]

Haven't we discussed this here before? I have never heard them called Jimmies. I Googled "Jimmies" and of course because it is 2022, the first result asked the "Age-Old Question of Whether Jimmies Are Racist."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wn7y5b/the-age-old-question-of-whether-jimmies-are-racist

https://www.dreamtheaterforums.org/boards/index.php?topic=55663.msg2777947#msg2777947

I had a deja-vu moment because even PG story sounded similar 

Damn...at least my stories are consistent.   

You call hamburgers 'steamed hams'?
Uh, It's a regional dialect.
Uh-huh. Eh, what region?
Uh...upstate New York.
Really? Well I'm from Utica and I've never heard anyone use the phrase 'steamed hams'.
Skinner: Oh, not in Utica, no. It's an Albany expression.
Chalmers: I see.

My wife is from Albany.  She said, "WTF?" to this.

Haven't we discussed this here before? I have never heard them called Jimmies. I Googled "Jimmies" and of course because it is 2022, the first result asked the "Age-Old Question of Whether Jimmies Are Racist."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wn7y5b/the-age-old-question-of-whether-jimmies-are-racist

What isn't these days?  I have a different screen name that I use in some other forums and once had someone private message me something like, "Do you REALLY not understand how offensive your screen name is??!!"  When I politely asked that this person explain what the fuck he/she was talking about, I got some generic response like, "do your research."

[hunnus2000]

Regardless of what you call it, I find them disgusting. I can't think of a better way to ruin a good ice cream dessert. 

[Chino]

I have no interest in the rainbow ones, but I genuinely love chocolate ones. I always wished for a way to have them inserted into the soft serve as it came out. I'm always bummed when I finish what's on the outside and am left with just plain frozen yogurt. 

[Cool Chris]

Are we overlooking the simple fact that they are SPRINKLED on the top of a treat? No one ever JIMMIED anything on to an ice cream sundae.

[Chino]

Hard to argue with that.

I've definitely jimmied open an ice cream sandwich because I have a thing for eating the wafer in isolation.

[Stadler]

Are we overlooking the simple fact that they are SPRINKLED on the top of a treat? No one ever JIMMIED anything on to an ice cream sundae.

That just means that someone who didn't know they were called "jimmies" improvised during a pressure-filled order session and the name stuck.  I'm not looking to reward ignorance. 

[Chino]

I was curious...

Good read on sprinkles:
https://www.foodandwine.com/news/history-sprinkles

[hefdaddy42]

Those are sprinkles, and ONLY sprinkles.

Jimmys host late-night talk shows.

[Anguyen92]

Are we overlooking the simple fact that they are SPRINKLED on the top of a treat? No one ever JIMMIED anything on to an ice cream sundae.

Jimmied:  force open (a window or door) with a jimmy.

I guess by the definition, adding sprinkles is basically jimmied something on a sundae?  Is that how the logic is where the term became Jimmy's?

[hefdaddy42]

Are we overlooking the simple fact that they are SPRINKLED on the top of a treat? No one ever JIMMIED anything on to an ice cream sundae.

Jimmied:  force open (a window or door) with a jimmy.

I guess by the definition, adding sprinkles is basically jimmied something on a sundae?  Is that how the logic is where the term became Jimmy's?

There is no logic to it.

[pg1067]

I have no interest in the rainbow ones, but I genuinely love chocolate ones. I always wished for a way to have them inserted into the soft serve as it came out. I'm always bummed when I finish what's on the outside and am left with just plain frozen yogurt.

I've dumped them into our ice cream maker.  Works quite well.

[emtee]

Jimmy likes Elaine.

Jimmy likes sprinkles too.

[Dublagent66]

Personally, I call them Sprinkles but I'm familiar with the term Jimmy's too.  Either way, no big deal.

[El Barto]

Flipping around Youtube and I came across Don Johnson as Big Daddy in Django Unchained. He frequently referred to Django as a "jimmy." I've got a pretty broad lexicon of racial epithets, and I gotta say I've never heard of that before. The article about whether or not calling sprinkles Jimmies is racist didn't make a damn bit of sense when I read it, but makes more now.

[Stadler]

Flipping around Youtube and I came across Don Johnson as Big Daddy in Django Unchained. He frequently referred to Django as a "jimmy." I've got a pretty broad lexicon of racial epithets, and I gotta say I've never heard of that before. The article about whether or not calling sprinkles Jimmies is racist didn't make a damn bit of sense when I read it, but makes more now.

I think there's a leap there.  I haven't seen Django Unchained, but that reads to me like a "jimmy" is short for "Jim Crow", which was often used as a pejorative reference to black people.  There are allusions to "jimmy" (sprinkle) being a reference to Jim Crow, but I'm not seeing how that leap happens.  The company that created them has always maintained it's the first name of the inventor.  I get it; the racial Occam's Razor says that if there are two competing explanations, and one points out "Racism" that it is liked the more acceptable answer, but I don't typically make that assumption.