If you live in the Northeast, you may have heard of sprinkles referred to as jimmies. But why are sprinkles also called ...

However, a 1930 Pittsburgh Press advertisement indicates the term “jimmies” was used to describe chocolate sprinkles long before the Jimmy Fund was founded in 1948.

About 87% of readers said they call the chocolate variety jimmies, whereas around 71% said they call the rainbow kind sprinkles.

I find sprinkles irresistible. I can't pass up the opportunity to top a sugar-laden ice cream cone with more festive sugar. "Jimmies," the New England term for chocolate sprinkles, used to ...

Were Jimmies Named After Jim Crow? Rumor holds that Jimmies, the chocolate sprinkles used on confections, are so named as a reference to Jim Crow.

The potential controversy around the name "jimmies" also goes back to the since disproved theory that the term, when applied to chocolate sprinkles, was used as a racist throwback to Jim Crow.