What is the history of jimmies the name(sprinkles for ice cream)?

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There are a variety of terms for jimmies or sprinkles but some american manufacturers call the elongated opaque sprinkles the official sprinkles. In Britain these are called hundreds-and-thousands, and multi-colored. In the Northeast USA they are known as jimmies. The Just Born candy company in Bethlehem, Pennslyvania produced a topping they called chocolate grains in the 1930s. A man named Jimmy Bartholomew ran the machine that made these chocolate grains. According to Ross Born, the chief executive officer, this was how the product became known as jimmies. This story was told to him by his grandfather, Sam Born who was the founder of the Just Born company. Just Born registered jimmies as its trademark and produced them until the 1960s. In 2004, the Boston Globe investigated th origin of jimmies after an inquiry from a reader. The readerheard a rumor that the term was originally racist-the idea was that some people refer to the chocolate ones as jimmies and the rainbow ones as sprinkled, perhaps the word descended from Jim Crow. The Globe found no evidence of this. However, they did cite an NPR commentary in 1986 by poet John Ciardi who said"From the time I was able to run to the local ice cream store clutching my first nickel, which must have been around 1922, no ice cream cone was worth having unless it was liberally sprinkled with jimmies.

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