Even our ice cream is resilient

Hot (sic) having been born or raised in Massachusetts, my parents who are now in their 70's were from the Jersey suburbs of NYC. They recently recalled that when they were in school, ALL students were taught to speak clear and concise English. This included African-American students. Slang was not accepted and in order to graduate, a student had to speak and read at an acceptable level. As I was growing up in the Merrimack Valley of Massachusetts, I do remember being corrected at home MANY times for grammar and pronunciations I had picked up from other classmates, as well as teachers! I am extremely grateful to my parents for insisting on proper speech!! Sometimes I struggle when conversing with life long natives...It's actually embarassing. There is nothing amusing or attractive about poor speech.

If the part about being taught proper English in the 70s in New Jersey is true, how times have changed.

An accent or dialect is not the same as "poor speech." It's character and gives people a sense of place and time.

I don't want to waste my time trying to explain what colored sprinkles I want on my ice scream, and I don't want to hear how many types of sprinkles the damn place has. I want jimmies, and they better have them, and the employee sure as hell better know what I'm talking about when I order them. (Bubbling Brook only finally got Jimmies last year for some crazy reason).

I used to call them Jimmies. But then a good friend of mine from Southie told me that Jimmies is actually a racial slur. I don't know if it's true, but that is why I don't call them that.

PS - I am not calling anyone on this thread is a racist. I am not saying people who use the term are racist. I am just reporting what I heard and why I don't call them Jimmies.

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Rainbow jimmies or chocolate jimmies, there is no flavored. Sprinkles are those little round sugar pellets.