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The article also goes on to detail how sprinkles are made as well as foreign variations. It even suggests some really novel uses for sprinkles. All I can say is cream cheese and rainbow sprinkles on a bagel is one combination this New Yorker isn't trying. And nobody's gonna fool me by calling them jimmies either.
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8-06-2006 @4:43PM Dubious 1 said... As a lifelong Michigander, I've never even heard of the term "Jimmies". But I do love sprinkles on my ice cream!
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8-06-2006 @9:53PM mella said... I grew up in Philly, and I think most people I knew used "jimmies" and "sprinkles" interchangably. In my family, they were always "sprinkles", and I'm not sure I ever learned to trust those "jimmies" people.
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8-07-2006 @9:35AM jrt said... We've always called them shots.
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8-07-2006 @10:45AM Beth said... I live outside of Philly and hear both terms being used. In high school my friend and I called them "sprinkies" because we couldn't decide which we liked better.
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8-07-2006 @3:10PM jenny williams said... I think us brits refer to them as 'hundreds and thousands'
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8-16-2006 @4:23AM Gabriella said... well to me....
Sprinkles are colored
Jimmies are chocolate
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8-17-2006 @10:00AM Mark said... I agree with Gabriella... I'm from New England and I think that sprinkles are rainbows and jimmies are chocolate.
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