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.

At The Franklin Fountain ice cream parlor in Old City, a bust of Benjamin Franklin gazes benevolently down on two antique ...

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, ...

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 ...

Though some refer to all sprinkles as jimmies, many hold that only chocolate sprinkles count as actual jimmies. There is also ...

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 ...

"Jimmies," the New England term for chocolate sprinkles, used to symbolize summertime in Massachusetts for me. That is until a well-meaning friend told 17-year-old me that the term "jimmies" is a ...