New Jersey: the Promised Land--Sprinkles and Subs
In New Jersey, we put sprinkles on our ice cream. We take these little chocolate or rainbow sugar flakes and drop them on to the top of our ice cream and make it look pretty and taste even better. The name for these little flakes is appropriate. They are small and you "sprinkle" them on to your ice cream.
When you get a long sandwich, you know on a roll with meat and cheeses and lettuce and all that stuff... it's called a submarine sandwich. Or a sub?
Why? Because that's what it looks like. It makes sense. It's cool.
It's logical.
Compare that to what they call it in New Jersey (#30). Or more specifically.... South Jersey.
Down there, they call sprinkles "Jimmies." And they call "subs" ... hoagies.
I don't even know what those things are.
Why call a sprinkle a Jimmy? Do you have to "jimmy" the lid off the sprikles to get them out?
NO.
And what the heck is a hoagie? I honestly have no idea. I can't even begin to justify this one. I'm not going to even try.
It just sounds stupid.
You see, while anything south of the Driscoll Bridge is technically New Jersey... it gets weird down there. They talk funny. When they say "phone" it sounds like "phewn." They root for Philadelphia sports teams.
There's a "devil" that lives in a forest... (we'll get to that some day...)
North Jersey is sane. We speak eloquently. We're cooler... and our food names are logical
When you get a long sandwich, you know on a roll with meat and cheeses and lettuce and all that stuff... it's called a submarine sandwich. Or a sub?
Why? Because that's what it looks like. It makes sense. It's cool.
It's logical.
Compare that to what they call it in New Jersey (#30). Or more specifically.... South Jersey.
Down there, they call sprinkles "Jimmies." And they call "subs" ... hoagies.
I don't even know what those things are.
Why call a sprinkle a Jimmy? Do you have to "jimmy" the lid off the sprikles to get them out?
NO.
And what the heck is a hoagie? I honestly have no idea. I can't even begin to justify this one. I'm not going to even try.
It just sounds stupid.
You see, while anything south of the Driscoll Bridge is technically New Jersey... it gets weird down there. They talk funny. When they say "phone" it sounds like "phewn." They root for Philadelphia sports teams.
There's a "devil" that lives in a forest... (we'll get to that some day...)
North Jersey is sane. We speak eloquently. We're cooler... and our food names are logical
Labels: Hoagies, Jimmies, New Jersey, New Jersey: The Promised Land, Sprinkles, Subs
posted by Dave White at 8:00 AM
6 Comments:
Hoagie, I'm told, comes from "hoggie," the sandwiches that the workers of Hog Island used to eat.
Philly International Airport sits on that island, I think.
It doesn't make the sandwich name any less ridiculous, but there it is.
And "Jimmies" -- no, I don't get that one. Never did.
-- c.
Technically, jimmies are the chocolate ones and sprinkles are the rainbow kind. Somewhere along the line the names became more generic and divided the line.
But South Jersey sucks for another reason.
Water. Ice. Or should I say "wurtereyce"
I cringe every damn time I hear it.
-Jaymar
The Brigham's Ice Cream Company claims that "Jimmies were first developed by Just Born Candy Company, which was founded by Samuel Born, who immigrated to the US from Russia around 1910 ... Born ... decid[ed] to accredit the name to the producer, Jimmy Bartholomew. The new product was named JIMMIES, which is still a trademarked name
continued: Back in the 1930s, the Just Born candy company of Bethlehem produced a topping called chocolate grains. The man who ran the machine that made these chocolate grains was named Jimmy Bartholomew.
Cherish these regional differences. What I hate is the use of "pop" for soda in the midwest. The first time I asked for a soda, back in '70. they brought me a club soda with alka seltzer in it. And a milkshake in New England is an entirely different thing, too.
I have never said "phewn" in my life until I tested the pronunciation after reading your post.
Though we do call it "wudder ice" not "italian ice" down there. 'Cause it's ice, but becomes water real fast, therefore being water and ice at the same time. And we say it "wudder." I'm sorry about that.
But hey, there are worse things. I actually "talk" and know people who drink "coffee." My family doesn't "tawk" or drink "cawfee." Just sayin'. And don't tell me North Jersey people don't use those words, and it's only New Yorkers, because I have heard plenty of North Jerseyans say those things. :P
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