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At The Franklin Fountain ice cream parlor in Old City, a bust of Benjamin Franklin gazes benevolently down on two antique ...
Wickedpedia Why do some New Englanders call sprinkles ‘jimmies’? “New York is a ‘sprinkle’ town. If you call them ‘jimmies,’ you're probably the type of person who roots for the ...
There are almost as many jimmies origin stories as there are sprinkles on a cone of ice cream. One story, originating in ...
Chocolate Jimmies, Rainbow Sprinkles “That’s the way I grew up saying it. It brings me back to my childhood memories when stopping for ice cream, my father would ask, ...
Jimmy Bartholomew who? Some detective work reveals that Just Born probably didn't invent chocolate sprinkles. The Boston Globe noted the company was founded in Brooklyn, New York, in 1923, but a ...
Rumor holds that Jimmies, the chocolate sprinkles used on confections, are so named as a reference to Jim Crow. Barbara Mikkelson Published Sept. 25, 2009 ...
Like I said above, certain areas of the country commonly refer to sprinkles bear as "jimmies," but why? Well, one story goes that in the 1920's, an entrepreneur by the name of Samuel Born started ...
Cairbre "Bre" Bishop has been behind the wheel of a Mister Softee truck for eight summers now, and he's helping South Jersey ...