Do you call them jimmies or sprinkles? archived

Jimmies

Sprinkles and can't imagine where the term "jimmies" would have come from.

(I also call what I believe is known around here as a "hero" a "sub" as in "submarine sandwich". Friends from MA call them "grinders".)

Sprinkles.

Sprinkles around here growing up.

Grew up north of Boston saying jimmies, but say sprinkles now because I perceive that as the local custom. I also grew up calling soda tonic.

edited to add: grinders are hot subs. Cold subs are still subs, but never heros.

Check it out.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmies

nan said:

Grew up north of Boston saying jimmies, but say sprinkles now because I perceive that as the local custom. I also grew up calling soda tonic.

Boston based jimmies sayer here, too. But I don't say sprinkles because I don't go out for ice cream cones anymore now that I'm close to a hundred.

jimmies

I say jimmies, but I think of them as chocolate. sprinkles are the colored ones.

I grew up in Maplewood and my family is NJ based, so not sure how both terms are used in this area.

According to the link I provided above, the chocolate jimmies were said to originate with Jim Crow and possible racist undertones.

Growing up, the colorful ones were sprinkles and the chocolate ones were called Jimmies--that's upstate NY.

But that was disproved by snopes and others. We can say jimmies without being racists. Or just say sprinkles. Whatever, you want to make sure you get the chocolate ones, not the rainbow.

LOL

Oldstone said:

According to the link I provided above, the chocolate jimmies were said to originate with Jim Crow and possible racist undertones.

What a lovely thought!

I remember jimmies. :-D

Sprinkles not jimmies
Subs not anything else
Soda definately not pop

How about tonic. My mother used to say tonic for soda.

We called them 'hundreds and thousands' in England

For real?

Tonic isn't soda-two different things. Seltzer is soda, tonic is tonic.

Sprinkles only.

Also, I am currently in Ireland where they are called " flakes"

k_soze said:

Sprinkles not jimmies
Subs not anything else
Soda definately not pop

Wrong, wrong ang wrong again.

North of Boston they were jimmies, heroes and tonic.

Yeah, I get that, car240, but my Massachusetts-born and raised mother and family called soda tonic. Did you grow up in MA?

Same as nan...NE peeps call them jimmies. I say sprinkles now.
We called all subs, "grinders". The term hero is used down south I believe.

Oldstone said:

According to the link I provided above, the chocolate jimmies were said to originate with Jim Crow and possible racist undertones.

They're named after the guy who ran the machine that made them.

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

Also, my family called it "tonic" but I always called it "Coke" or "Sprite" or "Root Beer" or *whatever*.

Exactly, Rufus...heroes !

funny i recently said jimmies to my son and he had no clue what i was talking about and i started to worry that maybe i imagined that i used to call them jimmies - glad to hear i'm not going crazy. and yes, we rhode islanders called them grinders and water fountains are called bubblers - and to be clear they are pronounced grindahs and bubblahs with a strong emphasis on the "ah" part

Rufus said:

k_soze said:

Sprinkles not jimmies
Subs not anything else
Soda definately not pop

Wrong, wrong ang wrong again.

North of Boston they were jimmies, heroes and tonic.

Not for nothin' but last time I was in Boston my waitress told me to help myself to the "salad bahh".....WTF is a salad bahhh?

Sprinkles
Subs
Soda

hmm, not buying the New England connection as my family is 75% New Jersey & 25% Philadelphia bred and they are the people who taught me to say jimmies.