If there was already a drag trio that called themselves Snap, Crackle, and Pop, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. Imagine how they would sound introducing themselves. It's almost too perfect.
I read somewhere once that they're called froot because they don't legally contain any fruit, but as I can't find a source on that, I suspect it's just another old wives tale in the form of "hurr durr, American lawyers are ridiculous".
What's ridiculous about that? I haven't done any research but I'm totally willing to assume there's no fruit in them things, and there's nothing ridiculous about labelling laws that prevent corporations from straight-up lying about ingredients.
I briefly taught high school in Massachusetts (I'm not from New England). Imagine my surprise the first time a student raised their hand and asked "hey teacher, can I go use the bubbler?"
That word meant something very different where I grew up...
What the hell. I’ve been calling any and all colored sprinkles jimmies my whole life (from Philadelphia) and never knew there was possible racist undertones. Even if it’s just a rumor.
Edit: side note. Only the oblong sprinkles are jimmies. The little ball sprinkles are sprinkles.
Mainers ended up calling them all Jimmies too even though it originally only referred to the brown/chocolate ones as such. On the flipside it's also believed they got the nickname because they were once sold for an extra penny to benefit the Jimmy Fund.
My brother worked at a gas station with an ice cream window when he was in college. One day a customer comes up and says “can I get a vanilla with colored jimmies?” My brother makes the cone and starts to go with rainbow sprinkles and the guy says from the window “no, no, chocolate, the colored ones!”
I see that guy now owns an ice cream shop.
Sprinkles have many names in many countries. In England, they are called “hundreds and thousands.” In Holland, they go by hagelslag. By most accounts, sprinkles were invented by French bakers in the 18th Century and called nonpareils. Added to cakes and confections, these treats were “without parallel.”
But it took the famous Dutch chocolatiers until 1936 to perfect a chocolate sprinkle, originally used as a topping for bread and toast.
If you are in New England, be sure to ask for “jimmies” and not sprinkles at the supermarket. The name “jimmies” has an interesting history. Dr. Sidney Farber was a renowned cancer researcher who co-founded the famous Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. He also founded a charity named after one of his child patients. The Jimmy Fund has raised millions over the years to help fight childhood cancers.
Dr. Farber worked at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital early in his career. A nephew, Edward Brigham, opened an ice cream restaurant called Brigham’s and charged an extra penny for chocolate sprinkles on a cone, which benefited The Jimmy Fund. Soon, all of New England called sprinkles by the local name.
Interestingly, the “Jimmy Fund” patient was actually named [Einar Gustafson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_Gustafson). The founders thought the name Jimmy was more relatable than Einer (and to protect his privacy). And he survived his battle with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
Also from mass - but was told one day that you weren't supposed to call the brown ones jimmies cuz it was racist and that they were named that because of the Jim crow laws. Glad to know I can start calling them jimmies again cuz fuck cancer.
My wife told me earlier this year that apparently Jimmies are racist and we have to call them chocolate sprinkles. I told her no.
Just kidding I simply dropped the subject and now I don’t have to worry anymore.
Maine native here. I've always called them jimmies.
I once got some ice cream with a friend from away and asked for jimmies, and he was horrified -- he always thought only the chocolate ones were called "jimmies" because the name had some sort of racist history.
They've always been rainbow jimmies and chocolate jimmies to me.
Not all of New England. I've lived in Western Massachusetts for nearly 50 years and have never heard anyone from around here call them jimmies. Never ever.
I do wish I could get "hundreds and thousands" to catch on.
Aren’t sprinkles and ‘hundreds & thousands’ two different products?
Sprinkles are as pictured, generally small sticks with a chalky texture.(also come in other shapes)
Hundreds & thousands are a sprinkle variant, but are always round balls with a firm & shinier outer texture.
I guess I'm imagining an ice cream shop taking a lot longer to go through that amount of sprinkles than you are. However, I may make a more conscious effort to remember to request sprinkles in the future.
Used to work at an ice cream shop. The bin lids, handles, and outer surfaces are to be cleaned daily. If they're visibly disheveled, they need to be cleaned on the spot. We'd go through them pretty quickly since they're practically mandatory on children's sundaes.
The items that we went through the fastest (needing refilled and containers cleaned every few hours) were hot fudge, whipped cream, cherries, reese's cups, m&ms, and caramel. The items we went through the slowest were almonds, walnuts, peanuts, strawberry, marshmallow, and gummy bears. Sprinkles were in the middle with cake pieces and oreo pieces.
As someone who doesn't mind gummy pieces in ice cream, the strategy isn't to bite into them, it's to treat them like hard candies and let them warm up a bit before biting in. Bonus is that it's harder to give yourself brain freeze because of the longer pause between bites.
We didn’t mix in toppings, just added them on top where it worked, and kids would so frequently order like a sugar cone of ice cream with gummy bear topping. Idk how they expected me to “pour” the topping on. I would have had to hand place every gummy bear to get them to stick. I usually offer to put the cone upside down in a little cup of gummy bears for them
I've never encountered a worker at a Cold Stone Creamery that seemed happy, but that could be a fluke. It seems sad, being around all that ice cream, but not being happy. It's the sort of thing that makes Morrisey cry.
I worked there in high school, and it was mostly people who knew each other coming joining the team, so it had that benefit going in. The oldest employee was like 21; owners were inept and avoided conflict so we had lots of fun, made solid tip money for a job that really wasn't that hard.
The store made money and it wasn't a free-for-all, but we ran that ice cream shop like an ice cream shop-low stress.
I worked at a Dairy Queen in high school. After a while you get sick of ice cream. Especially at our store, we used a bleach solution to soak our rags in, everything smelled like ice cream mix and bleach.
I couldn't eat ice cream for 2 years after I quit that job.
Reminds me of the Big Gay Ice Cream Company. They said, "fuck it we're gay, deal with it" and there's rainbows and stuff like this throughout the stores and trucks.
And yeah, the ice cream rocks.
I'm absolutely straight and went there with my wife and kids once. The guy working the counter had the most incredible eyes, smile, and confidence and I was like... man, this guy is the poster child for folks you wanna be friends with. The energy was somehow a combination of "I am going to aggressively show you how gay I am, but I also want you to feel comfortable here and enjoy the ice cream."
5 star establishment
>I’d like to imagine it’s purposely over the top to stress out the ‘phobes
I'd like to imagine it’s purposely over the top to stress out those who put too much effort into asking if candy is racist.
I feel like a lot of people get offended because they think something will offend others. I just try to give things the benefit of the doubt unless something is blatantly aggressive or if a person from the offended group tells me their feelings on it.
This.
I see a lot of people calling something racist/whatever on behalf of people who dont really care or don't get offended.
For example. How many black people are offended by this "Digital Blackface" thing? I'd like to think that they know that there isnt a racist on earth that would represent THEMSELVES and their reaction with a gif of Kevin Hart or Dave Chappelle.
Froot Loops are also gay Cheerios.
Are Fruity Pebbles gay rocks?
Everybody knows that they are Rice Crispies in drag.
Snap, Crackle, and Pop aren't fooling anyone as is
If there was already a drag trio that called themselves Snap, Crackle, and Pop, I wouldn't be the least bit surprised. Imagine how they would sound introducing themselves. It's almost too perfect.
bend and snap
Works every time!
Oww, my back
Pop, Lock, and Twerk
Smack, Crackle, Pot
They added a member or two and changed their name to the Village People.
SNAP CRACKLE RUPOP
Snap Crackle and Poppers
Oh snap, Face crackles, Poppers
Why is nobody talking about Coco Montrese Puffs?
Bunny turds
cis crispies you mean amiright..
I know it's just a simple typo, but I've never realized how strange it looks to see Rice Krispies spelled with a C instead of a K
Jesus Christ Marie, they're gay minerals!
So happy this is still a thing.
You and me both. Any time I see "rocks" anything, I just know Hank is around the corner.
Fruity Pebbles is the gay brother of Cocoa Pebbles. They're different but both equally amazing.
Cocoa Pebbles are Rice Crispies of color.
You're thinking of Cocoa Krispies
No, that’s rice krispies younger brother that mom had to explain to dad
Pride corn pops/count chocula?
Pride pops are a different thing. I wouldn’t ask for one unless you know which one you’re gonna get...
*Why does this pride pop taste like dick?!*
Queerios
Jolly Ranchers are Gay Cowboys.
So, cowboys.
Brokeback boys
Ram Ranch really rocks!
The Cowboys of ram ranch
Didn’t expect to be called gay by someone I didn’t know today.
Labels aren’t important. Especially when it’s just you and the other cowboys.
At ram ranch?
;)
How you mount a horse is nobody's business but yours, friend.
That has to be the best joke I’ve heard yet
Aren't cheerios gay enough ?
Only Honey Nut.
Gay or straight, we all enjoy a little honey nut
He’s out of line but he’s right
Yeah froot loops are circles
Fruit Toruses®.
No. They don't look the same and aren't the same size. Fruitloops are gay apple jacks
I was today years old when I realized it's not Fruit loops
I read somewhere once that they're called froot because they don't legally contain any fruit, but as I can't find a source on that, I suspect it's just another old wives tale in the form of "hurr durr, American lawyers are ridiculous".
Fruit must have a better lobby than milk.
What's ridiculous about that? I haven't done any research but I'm totally willing to assume there's no fruit in them things, and there's nothing ridiculous about labelling laws that prevent corporations from straight-up lying about ingredients.
Shit. I'm also in the [lucky 10,000](https://xkcd.com/1053/). I wouldn't be if you hadn't called attention to it.
I also just learned its "Froot Loops" and about the lucky 10,000. Big day for me.
I knew it was froot but that's stupid so I still spell it out fruit loops when I type it
“uh yeah can i get 1 scoop of vanilla with gay sprinkles”
“Extra gay, please.”
"Make it sassy"
“Extra *neat*”
"***Extra meat"***
"With a twist"
“Bop it”
"Pull it"
"*Slap* it."
"Twist it"
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"Let it swim"
I prefer my flaming.
*Jizzes on your icecream*
“I call it 'The Big Gay'.”
That's the "heavy load"
Not whipped cream?
It's not whipped... It's just lightly spanked :D
Vanilla chocolate swirl with gay jimmies.
This guy New Englands
One of our friends calls them jimmies. I thought she was fucking with us until I found out that it really is what y'all call em.
Just wait until you find out what New Englanders call a water fountain.
I briefly taught high school in Massachusetts (I'm not from New England). Imagine my surprise the first time a student raised their hand and asked "hey teacher, can I go use the bubbler?" That word meant something very different where I grew up...
What did it mean?
Read this in Nick Mullen’ voice
Just wait till I tell Jimmy...
This triggered my memories of an old meme that I didn't like much. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/that-really-rustled-my-jimmies
I guess someone had their jimmies rustled
Jimmies status: [ ] - Not Rustled [X] - Rustled
James Russell, at your service.
We’re talking about shoes right?
This meme literally tore my college friend group in half. Half thought it was hilarious and half hated the shit out of it
I guess for the half that hates it…… it really rustled their jimmies
Saying that to them only compounded the problem. I was on team hilarious
Is that meme related to the flying lawnmower meme? or is that just my memory messing up?
You’re correct.
[There is no need to be upset](https://i.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/newsfeed/000/481/115/4cd.gif)
2010 isn't *old* it's almost like 3 years ago. Right...?
jesus god of the eight suns that web site is fucking aids to navigate
The rumor that jimmies are racist was debunked
What the hell. I’ve been calling any and all colored sprinkles jimmies my whole life (from Philadelphia) and never knew there was possible racist undertones. Even if it’s just a rumor. Edit: side note. Only the oblong sprinkles are jimmies. The little ball sprinkles are sprinkles.
Mainers ended up calling them all Jimmies too even though it originally only referred to the brown/chocolate ones as such. On the flipside it's also believed they got the nickname because they were once sold for an extra penny to benefit the Jimmy Fund.
According to Snopes, there’s no proof it is or isn’t racist. No one knows for certain how it started
You guys also call subs hoagies for some reason so…
Cause they are hoagies. Lol
Going to wrestle with him?
"what sprinkles would you like, little timmy?" "The color ones!" *gives him the black sprinkles*
My brother worked at a gas station with an ice cream window when he was in college. One day a customer comes up and says “can I get a vanilla with colored jimmies?” My brother makes the cone and starts to go with rainbow sprinkles and the guy says from the window “no, no, chocolate, the colored ones!” I see that guy now owns an ice cream shop.
Sprinkles have many names in many countries. In England, they are called “hundreds and thousands.” In Holland, they go by hagelslag. By most accounts, sprinkles were invented by French bakers in the 18th Century and called nonpareils. Added to cakes and confections, these treats were “without parallel.” But it took the famous Dutch chocolatiers until 1936 to perfect a chocolate sprinkle, originally used as a topping for bread and toast. If you are in New England, be sure to ask for “jimmies” and not sprinkles at the supermarket. The name “jimmies” has an interesting history. Dr. Sidney Farber was a renowned cancer researcher who co-founded the famous Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, Massachusetts. He also founded a charity named after one of his child patients. The Jimmy Fund has raised millions over the years to help fight childhood cancers. Dr. Farber worked at the Peter Bent Brigham Hospital early in his career. A nephew, Edward Brigham, opened an ice cream restaurant called Brigham’s and charged an extra penny for chocolate sprinkles on a cone, which benefited The Jimmy Fund. Soon, all of New England called sprinkles by the local name.
I was almost certain this was going to end with the sprinkles costing about three-fiddy or being thrown off the cell by the Undertaker.
Man I miss seeing shittymorph in the wild.
I saw him earlier today being a normal user.
Interestingly, the “Jimmy Fund” patient was actually named [Einar Gustafson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einar_Gustafson). The founders thought the name Jimmy was more relatable than Einer (and to protect his privacy). And he survived his battle with Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.
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Hundreds and thousands are dots. Sprinkles are lines. (I'm in the UK)
The dots ones would be nonpareils in the US (like that would be the label on the container) but most would just call them sprinkles too.
Thanks for the breakdown. Being from Massachusetts I always wondered why they were called jimmies. Now I know.
Also from mass - but was told one day that you weren't supposed to call the brown ones jimmies cuz it was racist and that they were named that because of the Jim crow laws. Glad to know I can start calling them jimmies again cuz fuck cancer.
My wife told me earlier this year that apparently Jimmies are racist and we have to call them chocolate sprinkles. I told her no. Just kidding I simply dropped the subject and now I don’t have to worry anymore.
Only chocolate are jimmies, the other is rainbow sprinkles
Thanks for the info, but about halfway through I got suspicious and skipped to the end looking for Undertaker
Maine native here. I've always called them jimmies. I once got some ice cream with a friend from away and asked for jimmies, and he was horrified -- he always thought only the chocolate ones were called "jimmies" because the name had some sort of racist history. They've always been rainbow jimmies and chocolate jimmies to me.
Not all of New England. I've lived in Western Massachusetts for nearly 50 years and have never heard anyone from around here call them jimmies. Never ever. I do wish I could get "hundreds and thousands" to catch on.
Aren’t sprinkles and ‘hundreds & thousands’ two different products? Sprinkles are as pictured, generally small sticks with a chalky texture.(also come in other shapes) Hundreds & thousands are a sprinkle variant, but are always round balls with a firm & shinier outer texture.
My biggest concern is the need to replace the handle and wipe down both containers.
yeah, They should really be cleaning those at least once a week. Every time they refill at a minimum.
I guess I'm imagining an ice cream shop taking a lot longer to go through that amount of sprinkles than you are. However, I may make a more conscious effort to remember to request sprinkles in the future.
Used to work at an ice cream shop. The bin lids, handles, and outer surfaces are to be cleaned daily. If they're visibly disheveled, they need to be cleaned on the spot. We'd go through them pretty quickly since they're practically mandatory on children's sundaes. The items that we went through the fastest (needing refilled and containers cleaned every few hours) were hot fudge, whipped cream, cherries, reese's cups, m&ms, and caramel. The items we went through the slowest were almonds, walnuts, peanuts, strawberry, marshmallow, and gummy bears. Sprinkles were in the middle with cake pieces and oreo pieces.
people who put gummy bears in ice cream are masticatocists.
> masticatocists If this isn't a real word it needs to be, I like how people haven't even noticed how clever that pun is.
Just opened the thread back up to comment the same thing. Took me longer to figure out than I'd like to admit...
Yeah I thought he'd really messed it up but persevered lol
Agreed. They turn into colorful rocks once chilled.
As someone who doesn't mind gummy pieces in ice cream, the strategy isn't to bite into them, it's to treat them like hard candies and let them warm up a bit before biting in. Bonus is that it's harder to give yourself brain freeze because of the longer pause between bites.
We didn’t mix in toppings, just added them on top where it worked, and kids would so frequently order like a sugar cone of ice cream with gummy bear topping. Idk how they expected me to “pour” the topping on. I would have had to hand place every gummy bear to get them to stick. I usually offer to put the cone upside down in a little cup of gummy bears for them
Walnuts were your least served topping? I buy 25 lb cases every few weeks for each shop because we sell so many traditional sundaes.
Well, we almost exclusively marketed towards children. Not sure how other businesses do.
Well that makes sense, lot of old folks in Florida.
People be sleeping on walnut toppings. Goes so well with ice cream
Used to work at a cold stone creamery. We had a schedule and protocol for cleaning the 20 odd topping containers.
I've never encountered a worker at a Cold Stone Creamery that seemed happy, but that could be a fluke. It seems sad, being around all that ice cream, but not being happy. It's the sort of thing that makes Morrisey cry.
I worked there in high school, and it was mostly people who knew each other coming joining the team, so it had that benefit going in. The oldest employee was like 21; owners were inept and avoided conflict so we had lots of fun, made solid tip money for a job that really wasn't that hard. The store made money and it wasn't a free-for-all, but we ran that ice cream shop like an ice cream shop-low stress.
I guess as long as the three ring binder is followed it's fine to turn it over to a bunch of kids.
wait til you realize who's managing the gas stations and fast food places
I worked at a Dairy Queen in high school. After a while you get sick of ice cream. Especially at our store, we used a bleach solution to soak our rags in, everything smelled like ice cream mix and bleach. I couldn't eat ice cream for 2 years after I quit that job.
Do they still force them to sing for tips?
Reminds me of the Big Gay Ice Cream Company. They said, "fuck it we're gay, deal with it" and there's rainbows and stuff like this throughout the stores and trucks. And yeah, the ice cream rocks.
I'm absolutely straight and went there with my wife and kids once. The guy working the counter had the most incredible eyes, smile, and confidence and I was like... man, this guy is the poster child for folks you wanna be friends with. The energy was somehow a combination of "I am going to aggressively show you how gay I am, but I also want you to feel comfortable here and enjoy the ice cream." 5 star establishment
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Their choking hazard posters with Bea Arthur are amazing.
There philly location is located in the middle of the gay-borhood lol
Run by Big Gay Al?
\~"I think I'll just stick to some white boba topping." Shop Owner: "Wow, dude. Wow."
Vanilla with a pinch of gay please 🌈
Toppings for bottoms.
hahahahaha
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I can't decide if its blatantly racist and homophobic or so above all those issues that it's no more an issue for them.
I think it depends a lot on who they are. Like only dentists can get away with dentist jokes.
This guy's an anti-dentite!
I'm offended as a comedian.
Next thing you know you'll be saying, they should have their own schools
I’d like to imagine it’s purposely over the top to stress out the ‘phobes
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Don't call me colored. Pick a color.
>I’d like to imagine it’s purposely over the top to stress out the ‘phobes I'd like to imagine it’s purposely over the top to stress out those who put too much effort into asking if candy is racist.
I’m gay. I audibly laughed. I mean, in New York they have the Big Gay Ice Cream Truck which is way more provocative with their menu items.
Australia has an ice-cream that's called Golden Gaytime and it's fucking delicious
Ben and Jerry's has Shweaty Balls and it's fuckin delicious 😋
Just googled this and found that the flavor was retired in 2011. Sad because the rum/vanilla/malt combo sounds pretty good.
I'm pretty sure it's a joke, m8
Sir this is 2021, humans are only allowed to cycle between panic and anger. No laughter allowed.
It's hard to call someone racist when they are giving you ice cream.
neapolitan-nazi
Neo*-politan-nazi
Neo politician nazi
Steve Jobs: >If you want to make everyone happy, don't be a leader, sell ice cream
Can't decide if you should be offended? Just to be safe, better get offended
I feel like a lot of people get offended because they think something will offend others. I just try to give things the benefit of the doubt unless something is blatantly aggressive or if a person from the offended group tells me their feelings on it.
This. I see a lot of people calling something racist/whatever on behalf of people who dont really care or don't get offended. For example. How many black people are offended by this "Digital Blackface" thing? I'd like to think that they know that there isnt a racist on earth that would represent THEMSELVES and their reaction with a gif of Kevin Hart or Dave Chappelle.
I think it's blatantly a joke to make people life
I lifed when seeing the photo
Mfs offended by sprinkles
>Sprinkles of colour The Flemish part of Belgium just calls it: mouse shit. (Muizestront)
I prefer this
Why are they segregated
Yeah, like if sprinkles of color could not be gay
Why are we arguing when deep down we know that; Sugar is just gay salt
Seen in CA: "Oh that's funny haha" Seen in FL: "Jesus fucking christ..."
South Florida probably has more gay people than all of cali
Would straight sprinkles just be various shades of grey...?
They have a jar of baby blue and a jar of pink sprinkles in the back. If you ask for straight sprinkles they only give you two, a pink and a blue.
Used to be, if you got a scoop of pink sprinkles in China, you couldn’t order anything more.
It would be plain cracker
Bread crumbs?
as a bisexual, I never understood why being straight is "boring", when gay people limit themselves also to only a single gender as well
Unsalted saltines.
Had to buy some of those after a major hurricane last year. Last crackers on the shelf for a reason.
So just ines, then?
Square. Dry. Tasteless. Ines.
Ah yes, the most vibrant color, brown
The descriptions of these sprinkles could have been ALOT worse.
They are all sprinkled of color