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Posted: Jan 06 2007 08:31 pm

If you want to talk racist, talk to Syd! The man hates every race! He even hates white people! He hates women, children, and even household pets!!!

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Joined: Aug 24 2005 Location: Mount Holly, NJ Posts: 1062

I was once accused of being racist because as an usher at a movie theater, I didn't admit a kid to a movie because he had a 5 day old ticket. The exchange went something like this:

Kid: Here you go.
Me: I can't let you in.
Kid: Yo, you racist.

Deduction skills like that just can't be faked. The kid was obviously smart as a whip.

Posted: Jan 06 2007 08:39 pm

Wow... my opinion of you has changed... Shocked

Posted: Jan 06 2007 08:48 pm

I was accused of being racist once, in a similar fashion.

A few years ago, I was in one of the university dining halls eating dinner with my suitemates. One of my roommates came back with a bowl of ice cream topped with rainbow sprinkles. I said, "What the hell, rainbow sprinkles? You should have gotten jimmies instead."

Suddenly one of roommates looks up at me. His nostrils flare and his eyes become wider than I ever though possible.

"What THE FUCK did you say!?"

"Uh... I said jimmies are better than rainbow sprinkles."

"Fuck you."

"Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you?"

"They're called jimmies because of the Jim Crow laws."

"Um, I don't think that's true."

"You gonna fucking argue this with me? They're brown and they're called JIMMIES. What the fuck do you think they're named after?"

"Are you sure you didn't here that on a stand-up special or something? That sounds completely made-up."

"Seriously, fuck you."

"No, fuck YOU. Until you can fucking PROVE to me that they're fucking named after the goddam Jim Crow laws, I'm gonna call them jimmies because this is Massachusetts and that's what we fucking call our chocolate sprinkles!"

That was not a fun meal.

Posted: Jan 06 2007 09:03 pm

I always wondered why the hell they were called jimmies. I seriously doubt that's it, though.

Posted: Jan 06 2007 09:09 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

I was accused of being racist once, in a similar fashion.

A few years ago, I was in one of the university dining halls eating dinner with my suitemates. One of my roommates came back with a bowl of ice cream topped with rainbow sprinkles. I said, "What the hell, rainbow sprinkles? You should have gotten jimmies instead."

Suddenly one of roommates looks up at me. His nostrils flare and his eyes become wider than I ever though possible.

"What THE FUCK did you say!?"

"Uh... I said jimmies are better than rainbow sprinkles."

"Fuck you."

"Dude, what the fuck is wrong with you?"

"They're called jimmies because of the Jim Crow laws."

"Um, I don't think that's true."

"You gonna fucking argue this with me? They're brown and they're called JIMMIES. What the fuck do you think they're named after?"

"Are you sure you didn't here that on a stand-up special or something? That sounds completely made-up."

"Seriously, fuck you."

"No, fuck YOU. Until you can fucking PROVE to me that they're fucking named after the goddam Jim Crow laws, I'm gonna call them jimmies because this is Massachusetts and that's what we fucking call our chocolate sprinkles!"

That was not a fun meal.

And you were right. They're called "jimmies" because the person who ran the machine that produced the chocolate sprinkles at the Just Born candy company was named Jimmy Bartholomew. Just Born actually had the term trademarked until they stopped producing jimmies in the 1960's.

And yes, while that is in Wikipedia, I originally read that in the Boston Globe.

Posted: Jan 06 2007 09:13 pm

I think I heard that Necco owns the rights to the term now. I could be wrong though.

Posted: Jan 06 2007 10:38 pm

I just learned a new story yesterday. I was talking to my uncle on my mom's side and he was telling the story of a family road trip back east to his uncle's house. His aunt and uncle took him and my mom on a trip around the city, and when they got to the ghetto part of town they said, "Here's where the niggers live."

Posted: Jan 06 2007 10:39 pm

OMG! That rocks!

EDIT: This rocks:

Murdar Machene wrote:

I just learned a new story yesterday. I was talking to my uncle on my mom's side and he was telling the story of a family road trip back east to his uncle's house. His aunt and uncle took him and my mom on a trip around the city, and when they got to the ghetto part of town they said, "Here's where the niggers live."

Posted: Jan 06 2007 11:09 pm

Fun activity: Record yourself saying 'Reagan: Ink of Rhythm', then play it backwards.

Posted: Jan 06 2007 11:16 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

I think I heard that Necco owns the rights to the term now. I could be wrong though.

You're right.

And Tish, what rocks?

Posted: Jan 06 2007 11:23 pm

I resent that, Murdar! One of my friends live in the ghetto, and he's white!
This Is A Joke

I do have a white friend that lives in the ghetto, though.

Posted: Jan 06 2007 11:31 pm

Elvis had a song called "In The Ghetto". It took place in Chicago, so it may have been about Tebor. Wink

The song was originally about Saugus, Massachusetts which is a city right near mine. It went like this:

As the snow flies...
On a cold and gray New England morn
Another little welfare baby was born, in the Saugus (in the Saugus)

And his mama cried.
Cuz a high school girl can't raise a kid
When she don't even know who the daddy is, in the Saugus (in the Saugus)

People don't you understand?
Saugus sucks a lot of ass.
It's gonna be a big landfill someday
Take a look at you and me
Are we too blind to see?
Better save your money up and quickly move away.

I forget how the rest went.

Posted: Jan 06 2007 11:52 pm

I'm not gonna quote everything people said about jimmies, but that was really in the Boston Globe about the guy named Jimmy? I had researched it before and somewhere equally reliable as wikipedia, if not wikipedia itself (and I'm claiming that wiki is NOT entirely reliable, since there's no way to tell which I meant) said that it had to do with some old British expression "jim-jams" which meant like bauble or tinket basically and was applied to the sprinkles, then shortened to jimmies. Not saying you're wrong cause the Globe is more reputable than wikipedia or any other internt site, just saying.

Posted: Jan 07 2007 05:00 am

Syd Lexia wrote:

Elvis had a song called "In The Ghetto". It took place in Chicago, so it may have been about Tebor.

I shit you not, I play that song for my mother every Mother's Day. Laughing

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i have enver heard of chocolate sprinkels beign caleld jimmy's before.

Posted: Jan 07 2007 07:38 am

It's a regional Massachusetts thing... New Hampshire and Maine might in on it too.

You know, kinda like how hookers are considered real people in Nevada.

Posted: Jan 07 2007 02:48 pm

Pennsylvania does the "jimmy" shit, too. Very confusing sometimes.

Posted: Jan 07 2007 04:15 pm

Syd Lexia wrote:

It's a regional Massachusetts thing... New Hampshire and Maine might in on it too.

You know, kinda like how hookers are considered real people in Nevada.

Note to self: move to Nevada where I will finally fit in!!!

This Is A Joke

Side note: we don't call them jimmies on PEI or anywhere else in Canada that I know of...

And what about these little candies:

I believe they were originally called "nigger babies", later "black babies", and now "licorice babies"...

Posted: Jan 07 2007 04:22 pm

Seriously? Nigger babies?

Posted: Jan 07 2007 05:56 pm

Sadly yes... my grandfather told me that he can remember these from his childhood and they had that name. And no, it's not some wacky Canadian candy thing, my grandfather is from Fitchburg, MA!!!

Posted: Jan 07 2007 08:37 pm

I'm mad!

Posted: Jan 07 2007 08:41 pm

I would be, to.

Posted: Jan 07 2007 09:20 pm

I've never been on the recieving end of heavy racism. The worst as far as hispanic heritage goes is someone assuming I would want jalepenos on my pizza and the occasional reading my last name as rodriguez even though its not.

My mixed heritage gives me a racial ambiguity that people seems to get bugged by. I've never had a friend who didnt ask me about it, and I've had a person I barely knew near yell, "what the FUCK are you?" Also, my nickname in high school at times was "Osama". I guess I resemble someone from the middle east?

Joined: Aug 24 2005 Location: Mount Holly, NJ Posts: 1062

JEW wrote:

i have enver heard of chocolate sprinkels beign caleld jimmy's before.

In Jersey, the terms "jimmies" and "sprinkles" are interchangeable, regardless of whether they are rainbow or chocolate.

We also use the term "hoagie." I think that's a mid-Atlantic seaboard thing.