What do you call these?

[PenguinWaiters]

I'm in NH and we call them jimmies. You can ask for sprinkles too though and most people will know what you mean.

However, having heard this discussion before and then realizing that "jimmies" has a WHOLE different meaning in other states, I have told my daughter that they are sprinkles!

 

[NEVERENOUGHWDW]

Lived in Central NJ till 2004 and I've always called them sprinkles.

Sprinkles, but have always know what "jimmies are.....

 

[tonilea]

In the North of England

All of my life I have known these as 'hundreds and thousands'

This is the name used to buy them in tubs or get them added to an ice cream cone.

Over the last few years I have seen them being called sprinkles.........hmm...progress maybe.

Edit, I dont want to derail the thread. But when you buy fried fish and chips and you want some of the loose batter that comes out of the frying pan, what do you call this product?

Yorkshire= Scraps
North East= Bits
West Scotland=batter

I don't know anyone who has ever asked for the scrappy bits of batter....

 

[Mom2Nick]

In the North of England

All of my life I have known these as 'hundreds and thousands'

This is the name used to buy them in tubs or get them added to an ice cream cone.

Over the last few years I have seen them being called sprinkles.........hmm...progress maybe.

Edit, I dont want to derail the thread. But when you buy fried fish and chips and you want some of the loose batter that comes out of the frying pan, what do you call this product?

Yorkshire= Scraps
North East= Bits
West Scotland=batter

Fish and Chips is not a big thing here in the US.

 

[tinker&belle]

I'm a midwest girl and to me they're sprinkles. I was in Virginia when I was a teenager at an ice cream parlor and the boy behind the counter was very frustrated when I didn't understand when he asked if I wanted 'jimmies'. He asked three times and then held some up. It was really embarrassing.

 

[Mermaid02]

Jimmies... but sprinkles is acceptable. Maine here.

 

[Becky2005]

Fish and Chips is not a big thing here in the US.

Yeah, but I know what is being asked but I have no idea what it's called. The only place I know it was done was Long John Silver's and they closed most of those by us. It was my sister's favorite -- all I can think is crumbs they are called. I'm not really sure there is a specific name. I've been trying to think of what she would ask for and haven't come up with anything else. Maybe I should e-mail her and ask, she'll think I'm nuts!

 

[imabrat]

Sprinkles. Jimmies are a completely different thing, as in anatomy. EEK!

 

[mfd25wife]

Yeah, but I know what is being asked but I have no idea what it's called. The only place I know it was done was Long John Silver's and they closed most of those by us. It was my sister's favorite -- all I can think is crumbs they are called. I'm not really sure there is a specific name. I've been trying to think of what she would ask for and haven't come up with anything else. Maybe I should e-mail her and ask, she'll think I'm nuts!

Captain D's will give them to you for free, but you have to ask. They call them cracklin's or "just those little crispy things". We always ask for them.

 

[Camicar]

I grew up around NYC and called them Sprinkles. I'd never heard the term Jimmies until I went to college in New England.

 

[SadieDog]

Chocolate - jimmies
colored - sprinkles

I'm from Maine.

 

[aprilgail2]

Edit, I dont want to derail the thread. But when you buy fried fish and chips and you want some of the loose batter that comes out of the frying pan, what do you call this product?

Yorkshire= Scraps
North East= Bits
West Scotland=batter

eww- I think I would call them "garbage" LOL- do people really ask for that stuff to eat????

 

[Pumbaa_]

CT is shots

 

[crazyforgoofy]

I call them sprinkles or jimmies, either one works for me. I think Missouri is where lots of 'styles' meet. One side of the state says 'soda', one says 'pop' and I say 'soft drink'.

But my big gripe is when you ask for sprinkles or jimmies and you get those horrid, hard, tiny little round things that I learned were nonpariels! Arghhhh! Yucky, crunchy nasty things on my ice cream. Blech.

 

[Pooh_Friend#1]

Sprinkles and Pop here in CO.

 

[mom2boys77]

Those are spinkles. We are in NJ and I've never heard them called anything else.

 

[fortheluvofpooh]

I am a jimmies girl born and raised in PHiladelphia. Give me a twist cone with chocolate jimmies anytime.

 

[mom2boys77]

That's exactly what I thought too. Not something you'd put on ice cream.

Sprinkles.

Jimmies are something else entirely.

 

[NotUrsula]

Edit, I dont want to derail the thread. But when you buy fried fish and chips and you want some of the loose batter that comes out of the frying pan, what do you call this product?

Yorkshire= Scraps
North East= Bits
West Scotland=batter

In America (at least in the South) this normally comes up more often when eating fried chicken, in which case I've most often heard it called the crispings or crispins'.

We don't do it when taking it from the fat, but after the chicken is eaten, there tend to be some left in the serving dish or box. My eldest sister is the biggest crispings fiend I've ever known. My DS is fond of them, too.

PS: On the "jimmies" thing, Urban Dictionary goes with the confectionary definition when the word is plural, and the reproductive organ definition when the word is singular. Go figure. In my world they are sprinkles. I prefer the crunchy little round nonpareil kind, not the oblong ones, which taste too much like starch to suit my taste. I don't think those brown ones are chocolate-flavored; they're just brown.

 

[TKERBELL]

I think it's just us Jerseyites that call them jimmies - everyone else I know calls them sprinkles and they laugh at me for calling them jimmies!! OH WELL!!