Friday, September 4, 2020

SPRINKLES OR JIMMIES FRIDAY DEBATE

On Fridays, we like to do a "Friday Food Debate" where we tackle some of the burning questions of the culinary world, ha.  We have expanded it at times to more fun regional uses of other words...

This week, the burning question is:



This one is fun because I can honestly say we had never heard of the term we don't use.  We have grown up always calling these colorful decorations for cupcakes and cookies 'sprinkles'.  Then when I was reading some articles on food items, I saw the term 'jimmies' used.  When 2nd Man has had me buy a bottle at the store it's always "hey, can you pick up a jar of sprinkles so I can make cupcakes?"  Have never said jimmies, ha.  Apparently it's another regional term as well, mainly being confined to the North and East.  

So, what do you call them?
Sprinkles?  Jimmies?  Something else?


18 comments:

  1. From a lifelong CA resident, it is sprinkles. Never ever heard them called Jimmies.

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  2. Never ever heard them called "Jimmies" ... got any background info on "why" they would be called that! I guess I could Google it if I really wanted to know!
    They are sprinkles ... period! LOL

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  3. jimmies in philly; if you call them "sprinkles", we KNOW you ain't from philly!

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  4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprinkles#:~:text=In%20the%20Northeastern%20United%20States,can%20be%20used%20for%20both.

    In the Northeastern United States, sprinkles are often referred to as jimmies. "Jimmies", in this sense, are usually considered to be used as an ice cream topping, while sprinkles are for decorating baked goods, but the term can be used for both.

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  5. Sprinkles for me and my aide (Texas)

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  6. Sprinkles, except for the chocolate ones and I always called them jimmies, probably because Mom called them that.

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  7. They were known as sprinkles in Ohio.

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  8. Jimmies in Massachusetts and they were only chocolate. Somewhere along the way I think I heard them referred to as chocolate shot but I'm not sure. The multicolored ones were sprinkles, but I was out west by then.

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  9. Hundreds and thousands or sprinkles.

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  10. I have heard of jimmies but I never knew what they were. However, I do know what sprinkles are and the only thing I ever say is get them off my food. I hate sprinkles. Tommy calls them sprinkles and does not like them, either. We are in the South and they are sprinkles here.

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  11. I'm from NY state and we call them sprinkles. I have heard them called jimmies too but it is not common here.

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  12. Jimmies are the chocolate ones, sprinkles the colored ones. Many times the older cookbooks refer to them as Jimmies. A Midwest thing?

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  13. we call them hundreds and thousands in australia

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  14. In Boston, Jimmies are the chocolate ones. And only chocolate!

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