Posted on 06/23/2015 7:52:11 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
Summer is here, which means reviving the contentious debate over whether or not a favorite ice cream toppings name has racist origins.
Ive heard them called jimmies ... Its after Jim Crow, said Carly Fishkin, 25, who grew up in Wellesley and prefers to call them sprinkles. Her nearby friend, Izak Shapiro, also 25, agreed.
They are two of many who have heard that the word jimmies has deeply racist connotations.
(Excerpt) Read more at boston.com ...
Are Oreos racist mix-ins?
"Gator's Bxxxx better be using Jimmies!"
To answer your question, it’s the same state that voted for fauxcahontas.
If you’re white, it’s racist to breathe..
I had never heard those terms. What constitutes tidewater?
Southeastern Virginia and northeastern North Carolina...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tidewater_(geographic_term)
Ah... but it’s only “racist” when said by a white person.
More to the point, it’s only “racist” if somehow that advances the leftist agenda.
ROFL your’s is probably the sanest response to the insanity!
Absurdistan is here.
I hate the term “sprinkles”.
FGS, ANYTHING can be a “sprinkle”.
“Jimmies” helps detail it. Nonpareils are “sprinkles”, the little stars are “sprinkles”, even tiny bits of colored sugar can be called “sprinkles” - because all of them get sprinkled on the cupcake/ice cream!
Geesh. I can’t believe I have to explain this.
???
A blue crab is a jimmy?
Or a male?
Is that a term somewhere?
They've been chugging leftist NAACP/DemocratParty/NEA/SPLC/LGBT/ABCNNBCBS/SesameStreet purple kool-aid by the gallon since early childhood.
They've been brought up wrong and trained to do worse.
And don’t say “picnic”.
http://www.chesapeakequarterly.net/V11N2/side4/
http://www.beach-net.com/whats-here/crab-glossary.php
https://www.bluecrab.info/identification.html
Never heard of that terminology. Native central MDer LOVE crabs to eat, never heard anyone refer to them as anything but males and females!
I grew up near the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay. The words were part of the language there.
Maybe it’s more common in the Tidewater. But then, I only eat them (restaurants never stated “jimmy” or “sally/sook”, just male/female).
In Connecticut, we called them “shots”, only the Massachusetts folks called them “jimmies”. Maybe the word should be changed because of the association with bullets and guns, eh?
The whole racist theme has taken over the mentally inferior people! Idiots!
In years past, I drove a GMC Jimmy. Would they trash my vehicle today if I still drove one?
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