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“I’ve heard them called jimmies … It’s after Jim Crow,” said Carly Fishkin, 25, who grew up in Wellesley and prefers to call them sprinkles.

I didn't know sprinkles had any other name.

Uh?

{ "Jimmies", the chocolate grains sprinkled on ice cream were invented at Just Born, and named after the employee who made them. }

I definitely call "sprinkles" jimmies, but I've never heard them related to Jim Crow…

…Who the fuck calls sprinkles "jimmies" (other than Lisa, apparently)?!

A rustling that could be heard 'round the world.

So the people who did research and know its not racist are like,

While the ones who didn't but think its racist anyway are like,

'k den.

Everyone?? Doesn't the bottle literally say Jimmies?

edit:

see, you're the weirdo.

@lisa
that's true but that's just the flavor/variant, the title of the product is sprinkles

Sprinkles are what you call things you sprinkle on top of cakes/cupcakes/whatever.
The little long tubey ones are jimmies.
The round balley ones are nonpareils.
The ones that are coated in shiny edible paint are dragees.
Those are the only ones I know tbh.

edit: I'm originally from Chicago. Idk if it's a midwest thing or an eastern thing, we get a good blend of both.

how is jimmies racist? what does it do? did those Sprinkles join the KKK or something?

Marge Simpson

There's this crazy phenomenon called "dialects". It's like this thing where people from one part of the country say things differently than people from another part of the country. I know, it's so weird, right?

To answer your question directly: People in the Northeast tend to say "jimmies" I'm not sure where Lisa lives, but I'm willing to bet she also lives in a region that uses the term

I say "sprinkles" because I'm insecure about my sexuality and "jimmies" makes them sound like tiny penises all over my ice cream. Not interested.

Those little crunchy ball things have names? Those shiny ones have a name?!

Wow. I've already learned so much from this thread.

Robert Whitman, 58, who grew up in New York City, is an outlier. He calls them sprinkles, but never heard that jimmies might be racist--and seemed perturbed that anyone would think so.

“That’s absurd,” he said. “Don’t go making controversy where there is none.”

Welcome to the age of hypersensitivity where everything anything that could be slightly misconstrued to be racist intent/portrayal most absolutely is until proven innocent

Wait, these are called Jimmies?
I lived in the Northeast my whole life and never heard them called "Jimmies" but Sprinkles.

RACIST CONFIRMED

Why the jimmies gotta be brown tho? :)

>people calling jimmies racist
You can't flim flam my jim jams.

Remember when racism used to mean "feeling your race is superior to other races"? When did it turn into complaining about the false etymology of an ice cream topping?

This thread made me look up different types of sprinkles and I came across these shaped things that my mom solely uses at Christmas for cookies and it reminded me that these are what I call sprinkles by default.

I don't think I've ever eaten yogurt/ice cream/etc with anything but chocolate or rainbow jimmies so the word "sprinkles" is not really something that I use often. I didn't think jimmies were such a specifically regional thing before this thread.

You know, if you go actively looking for racist things, you are always going to find them, the same way that if you go looking for proof that the Earth is flat, you are always going to find it, because you are actively trying to perceive the word in a certain way, and when you do that, you can't see it for how it actually is.

Dunkin' Donuts calls them sprinkles. Case closed.