Sprinkles or Jimmies?

Last night we went out for custard. I'm not really sure what custard is...how is it different from soft serve? In any case, I asked for rainbow sprinkles on my cone. She asked if I wanted jimmies for the kids. I was a little confused. I asked if they were chocolate. I had heard somewhere the chocolate sprinkles were called jimmies. She looked at me like I was from outer space. I grew up calling sprinkles...well, sprinkles. I later learned that Philly people (and apparently Boston, Wisconsin and Michigan, too) call them jimmies.




According to Slashfood, Just Born Candy company manufactured sprinkles and back in the 1930's the guy running the sprinkle machine was named Jimmy. Apparently the name stuck. Interesting since I grew up in Bethlehem where the Just Born candy company resides and I never heard them called jimmies until I moved to Philly. No matter what you call them, they sure are tasty on some custard on a hot summer day. They are also quite tasty on cold rainy day. Yum.

I'm not really a blogger

I'm really not. I was always the one during the essay exams to be finished first. I usually had half a page, maybe two at the most in the those little blue books and I was finished in about 15 minutes. Meanwhile all my classmates were furiously writing away and by the time they finished they had a few blue books worth of answers. So we'll see where this leads.

I figured I'd try for a few reasons. In addition to not being a blogger, I also don't scrap or do any kind of memory books and I want some kind of record of our life. Plus I think things are about to get interesting.