8/17/08 Captain Jack's Repossession Repo Cruise to PC thru TPC Part 8

[Verandah Man]

Andy will sprinkles do.. Now here is one for you.. have you heard of Choc sprinkles being refered to as ANTS.. esp if they are on top of ice cream??

Nope, never heard that one.

 

[miztigg]

If I wanted a car, I needed to buy it myself and pay my own insurance.

same here even though i had the money @ 17 i still had to wait till i was 18 parents were afraid of getting sued i bought my first horse at 15 when my mom found out she freaked she thought someone was gonna fall off and sue her

 

[disneypilots]

Long Johns are thermal undies. There used to be Long John Silver's restaurant places, but I never ate at one.

And the BEST Coffee Cake !!!!!!

Mark

 

[Joel110]

I like donuts.

I was just reading on the disability board about a mom that got the "LETTER".. she has a child that has a disability that makes it difficult to go to WDW in the normal summer , spring, Christmas, Thanksgiving breaks..She talked to the school principle and he told her that if she took her child out of school for 5 days she could be in a violation of child rights and charged with a felony.. further if convicted fined $100, 30 days in jail, community service or all the above..

What a joke.


"Buehler.......Buehler......Buehler"

"Your honor, the defense calls Mickey Mouse."

Jimmies people, they are Jimmies!

Yeah, right....next you'll be telling us that "Pop" is actually called something else.......like . . . . "Soda".

 

[miztigg]

My grandfather was creamated and sprinkled in the ocean. We throw a wreath into the water every Christmas for him.

i wanna be creamated and spread on CC

 

[PBader]

But ours is in the attic!

Our 1st house had the wh in the attic. Talk about a MESS when it leaked!

 

[yargrnhoj]

Nope, never heard that one.

The beloved jimmy could be lost
A sprinkling of history for a name that's melting away.
By Michael Vitez
Inquirer Columnist

Which came first, the jimmy or the sprinkle?

Evidence suggests the jimmy.

A far more important question for local readers is: Which will endure?

Sadly, the sprinkle.

The jimmy - at least as a piece of slang, an expression of local flavor - is doomed.

"If it's not a dead term, it's a dying term," said Peter Georgas, vice president of Can-Pan Candy, the Toronto-based company that sells a million pounds of sprinkles every month.

"I will rarely, rarely get on the phone with somebody who asks me for a jimmy," he said. "And if someone does ask me for a jimmy, he's an older man."

The fact is that jimmies and sprinkles are the same thing, which is almost nothing, a wisp of sugar, oil, emulsifier (don't ask!) and coloring.
But by any name, the world consumes about 50 million pounds a year, according to an industry expert - about 1.3 trillion sprinkles or jimmies, give or take a few hundred million.

Mostly, they're sprinkled on ice cream. But if laid end to end, they would stretch 2.3 million miles, enough to circle the Earth nearly 100 times.
This region - from Philadelphia to the Jersey Shore - historically has been jimmies territory.

Jimmies - not sprinkles - have been on the menu for 53 years at the Custard Stand on Ridge Avenue in Philadelphia.

"I don't bother people who call them sprinkles," said Vince Joyce, 21, a jimmies loyalist and employee for seven years. "But if you call them shots or dots or ants or black beads, I say something: 'You mean jimmies, right?' "

Right across Ridge Avenue, at rival Dairyland, jimmies have been on the menu since the establishment opened 30 years ago.

The present owner, Michael Kiedaish, 32, grew up with jimmies and says he will never change: "When someone tells you that something's a jimmy, it's a jimmy."

But hints of extinction are everywhere, even in his own store.
"The college people... they're all sprinkles," said Laurie Taylor, 23, who has worked the counter at Dairyland for eight years. "And the yogurt people are sprinkles. And kids all say rainbow sprinkles because it sounds more fun.

"I grew up saying jimmies," she confessed, "but from working here so long, I've started calling them sprinkles."

Sprinkles are encroaching everywhere. Old reliables like Kohr Brothers on the boardwalk in Ocean City are holding firm with jimmies, but upstarts like Ben & Jerry's on Rittenhouse Square? Sprinkles.

At Daddy-O's Dairy Barn in Mount Laurel, owner Rob Cotton grew up in Northeast Philadelphia calling them jimmies, but on his menu he lists them as... sprinkles!

"The distributors all call them sprinkles, so that's what I put on the menu board," he said.

"This is the No. 1 question: Is there a difference? And where does the name come from? I must hear that three or four times a week."

Here is some history:

Back in the 1930s, the Just Born candy company of Bethlehem produced a topping called chocolate grains. The man who ran the machine that made these chocolate grains was named Jimmy Bartholomew.

"Thus, his product became known as jimmies," said Ross Born, the chief executive officer. He was told this story by his grandfather and company founder, Sam Born. Just Born registered jimmies as its trademark, and continued producing jimmies until the mid-1960s - which is why the name was so popular here.

The trademark expired and soon after, Just Born stopped making jimmies.
This account, however, has been disputed.

The Boston Globe investigated the origin of jimmies last winter after a reader inquired about a rumor that the term originally was racist - the idea being that some people refer only to chocolate ones as jimmies, and rainbow ones as sprinkles. Perhaps, the reader surmised, the word descended from Jim Crow.

The Globe found no evidence of this, but did cite a commentary in 1986 on National Public Radio by the late Boston poet John Ciardi, who claimed: "From the time I was able to run to the local ice cream store clutching my first nickel, which must have been around 1922, no ice cream cone was worth having unless it was liberally sprinkled with jimmies."

Ciardi, the Globe said, "dismissed Just Born as claim-jumpers looking to trademark someone else's sweet inspiration." His jimmies had come first.
The truth may never be known.

But what is undeniable, according to industry experts, is that jimmies gradually gave way to sprinkles, a more vivid and appealing name.
For example, a world leader in sprinkles is QA Products outside Chicago. It started making sprinkles 10 years ago - under the brand name Sprinkle King.

When Vince Joyce of the Custard Stand on Ridge Avenue gives his customers jimmies, he gets them from a Sprinkle King box.
For the record, a chocolate sprinkle includes cocoa and offers a faint chocolate taste. But all rainbow colors taste exactly the same, which is to say, have virtually no taste.

This was confirmed by Kasey Dougherty and Kathleen DeMichele of the Dairy Queen in Ocean City. On a rainy day last summer, they conducted a taste test - blindfolded.

Neither could tell pink from yellow from green.

"Nobody gets rainbow sprinkles for the flavor," Dougherty said. "They get them for the colors, and the crunch."

 

[Reenieny18]

Is anyone watching According to Jim??? i cant imagine doing this with my kids yet alone with a baby... and its a Disney channel...

 

[lbgraves]

Well...

... this really interests me cuz right now I have two little girls (age 3 and 5) trying to sleep or asleep on either side of me. I used to think - do normal folks do this? That is cuddle up with their kids to put them asleep? I've heard mention that some folks absolutely do not do this kind of thing ... while others very simply nod and smile graciously. While still others have remarked that the kids seem to be much "closer" with the parents this way. We sort of alternate a bit with my spouse sometimes substituting for me - and vice versa.

Well, we didn't set out to have what I have read as "the family bed." DS was put in his crib in his room at 4 days old & slept well there...until 3 months. When the kids were nursing I would just bringing them to bed and I got a better night's sleep that way. When they moved out of their cribs at 18 months, they slept in their beds all night. When they would wake up early in the morning after DH left for work, instead of crying for me to get them, they just crawled into bed with me for a couple more hours sleep. DS has never come in to sleep with us during the night. DD started when she was 4 1/2. DH started taking DD to bed to fall asleep when she was 18 months & DS started falling asleep in his own bed. That was their story time. When DH was gone last year DD wanted to sleep on his pillow with me "so I wouldn't be lonely." He was gone 10 1/2 months in a 12 month period. He has been home since September but I think that she lost the sense of security in her room at nigt. She says that shes monsters in her room. For me, I see two choices...let her stay when she crawls into bed with us so that we can all get more sleep...or carry her back to bed & stay with her until she falls asleep & lose out on sleep myself.

 

[miztigg]

My first car was a '92 Quasar Blue Chevy Cavalier. I hated giving that car up but drove it for 11yrs!


Chrissie

1st car was a 86 fiero GT i LOVED that car then some stupid s*** came up a down ramp and totaled it, bent it in half and sent my ex through the windshield

 

[Verandah Man]

Yeah, right....next you'll be telling us that "Pop" is actually called something else.......like . . . . "Soda".

Pop........that's what I called my dad's dad..............

 

[brack]

Nothing like a : "What do you want done with your remains" conversation to brighten up a Wed. afternoon!

My family doesn't 'do' viewings, we also don't 'do' a party after the funeral - boy does that annoy people in Irish-Catholic Cleveland, OH.

I'm going to be buried at sea. Weigh me down & toss me off a boat. I don't like cemeteries. My family can go to the beach and think of me.

I've always said that I want to be cremated and "sprinkled" at WDW but my DW says that she will not do that. The Army does have a plot in Atlanta for us and that will probably be where I "rest".

An Army funeral is meant to celebrate the "Promotion to Glory" so most are somewhat upbeat. I want mine downright festive!

 

[brack]

My brother went to KFC one time and they were out of chicken.

I went to a Starbucks in London and they were out of coffee!! I almost freaked out on them!!!

 

[disneypilots]

Pop........that's what I called my dad's dad..............

Ahhhh regional slang.......... Soda = East Coast

Pop = MidWest

RC = South

Mark

 

[Reenieny18]

well there you have it.. a candy coated sprinkle is non other than a jimmie in the NJ or Phillie area..
and yes, i did see the phrase as ANTS as well...
Where did you find this info??

 

[lbgraves]

Good Morning Crew

My weren't we a chatty group last night, I wake up this morning to see 30 pages were added, time to go skimming.

I'm also on hold with our utility company, I woke up this morning to find out hot water heater leaking all over our utility floor. I guess I can't complain, the hot water heater was installed just before we moved in this house back in July 1980.

WOW! It's amazing that it has lasted this long! Hope that you got someone in there to get it fixed this morning.

 

[yargrnhoj]

well there you have it.. a candy coated sprinkle is non other than a jimmie in the NJ or Phillie area..
and yes, i did see the phrase as ANTS as well...
Where did you find this info??

Google. It was a Philadelphia Inquirer article. I knew I had heard "Jimmies" before.

As for me, I am going to have a hoagie and some pop and then red up my room before calling it a night.

 

[lbgraves]

I run into that problem too. We order stuff for the kids, then forget we tacked on something for ourselves and then we hide the boxes until birthday or Christmas and then it's "D'oh!"

I am still hunting for something that I ordered last month for a birthday gift for the kid's friend. I put that & another bday gift for later this year seperate from everything else because I wanted to be able to get to it easily this month to ship it out. UGH! Now I can't find the bag anywhere in this house!!!

 

[yargrnhoj]

I am still hunting for something that I ordered last month for a birthday gift for the kid's friend. I put that & another bday gift for later this year seperate from everything else because I wanted to be able to get to it easily this month to ship it out. UGH! Now I can't find the bag anywhere in this house!!!

SWMBO is tearing our room apart trying to find the dolphin earrings she bought for our daughter at the Sea World shop in MCO when we cruised in December since they are part of Rebecca's birthday present for Monday. I told her I thought she put them with her jewelry, but no. She's going through our pins now -- that may be where we put them.

 

[mkygrl]

I am still hunting for something that I ordered last month for a birthday gift for the kid's friend. I put that & another bday gift for later this year seperate from everything else because I wanted to be able to get to it easily this month to ship it out. UGH! Now I can't find the bag anywhere in this house!!!

At least you know it is in a safe spot!

Chrissie