Jimmies (1954)

[Alice Faber]

Peter A. McGraw wrote:
>I know I've heard of sprinkles and never, until now, of jimmies.  But I
>have  at best a nodding acquaintance with them so am forced to admit that
>I'm not entirely sure what the definition encompasses.  There are the
>little chocolate bits, and then there is another thing that's like large,
>multicolored sugar crystals.  Does "sprinkles" (and presumably also
>"jimmies") cover both, or only the chocolate kind?
>

I'm not familiar with the multicolored sugar crystals. But there are
colored objects of the same size and shape as the canonical chocolate
sprinkles/jimmies. I would call these sprinkles, and, I guess, if I
were in Boston, I'd call them jimmies.

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