“I’ve heard them called jimmies ... It’s 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.”
So in other words they’re both stupid.
Maybe. Maybe they are just seeing how many people they can get to pick up the term off the webs and start using it that way.
If Nabisco didn't change the name of a certain cookie, I really don't think the sprinkles need to be renamed.
And they can leave my Brazil Nuts alone while they are at it.
Ask those minds of mush which party authored the Jim Crow laws.