At The Franklin Fountain ice cream parlor in Philadelphia's Old City neighborhood, a bust of Benjamin Franklin gazes ...

An archived page from the Brigham’s Ice Cream website puts jimmies’ arrival in Boston around 1947, as Boston.com previously reported in 2015.

Readers Say Is it ‘sprinkles’ or ‘jimmies’? Here’s what 350 Boston.com readers said. One of the most popular ice cream toppings is sprinkles, but readers have a certain name for them ...

Ask any ice cream vendor for jimmies on your sundae, and so long as you're within a 200-mile radius of Boston, chances are he'll understand you. When I was 16 or 17, ...