About the sundae cartoon Well, it's true, right? Add some candy to your ice cream for real fun! Of course, jimmies (sprinkles in layman's terms) are more than candy, they're chocolate, and rather festive. I call chocolate ones jimmies, and only the colored ones are sprinkles. And pretty! Do some jimmies taste better than others?
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I've never liked sugar as a topping, not even confectioners' sugar. But I do like candy, especially jimmies! Out here in Los Angeles they call them sprinkles.
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I like them especially on ice cream, but on a sugar cookie or other interesting place they're also good. I prefer all chocolate.
Here's a whole forum on jimmies, in Boston, and Boston does know its ice cream. (favorite flavor in Boston? Coffee.)
Someone at school told me that jimmies is actually a ra-cial slur related to the Jim Crow laws ('course, she was from Jersey)...anyone else heard this?I hope not! I never heard that before. More comments ideas, below.
Yeah, I've heard that they're sprinkles if they're multi-colored, and jimmies if they're chocolate, because it was slang for Jim Crow. And even if it's not true, enough people around think it's true, so I call them all sprinkles.Read More