Are "Jimmies" Chocolate Sprinkles for Ice Cream?

"Jimmies" is the Boston/New England word for "chocolate sprinkles." 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, I heard for the first time this doozy of an urban legend, causing me to feel guilt for taking pride in this linguistic quirk — although I never stopped using the word. My friend told me, after I had ordered jimmies on my ice cream, that it was racist to say jimmies. She explained that because chocolate sprinkles are black, early Bostonian racists referred to them as jimmies — because of the Jim Crow laws. As little sense as this makes to me now, I was taken aback as a teenager, and was vaguely ashamed every time I got a chocolate-sprinkled sundae.

I've heard it about 20 times since then, from all different sources, inside and outside of Boston, each accompanied by a dire warning not to perpetuate this racist expression!

World's Thickest Thick Shakes in Tenterfield

Staff at Tenterfield's Famous Pie Shop and shoppers on the street were seeing stars on Tuesday.

Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson, most widely know for his portrayal of the globe trekking, speech impaired plumber Kenny, passed through Tenterfield on Tuesday to try the Famous Pie Shop's world's thickest thick shakes as part of their new film Charlie and Boots.

The pie shop's world's thickest thickshakes were in fact invented for the movie, but the Famous Pie Shop owners Geoff and Gabrielle Schnitzerling said the thick shakes and new signage are here to stay.

Mr Schnitzerling said the film's director, Dean Murphy, chose to film at the Famous Pie Shop after visiting the shop on a trip through Tenterfield in the previous year.

"The director came through town last year and stopped for a pie. He said he loved the place so he got in touch with us and asked if he could hire it do some of the filming," he said.

"I'm very pleased to have had part of the film shot there, it's great to know someone wanted to film the pie shop."

It took three thick shakes to film the close-up shots of Mr Jacobson in the pie shop.
In an interview with the Star, Jacobson said his favourite flavour was banana, but was unsure if it would be anymore.

"Fifteen minutes ago my favourite flavour was banana, and now it is anything but banana. I think I've just deprived three million chimps bananas, if you cut a hole in me I'd be able to feed bananas to all the chimps in Africa."

"The thick shake was very nice," Jacobson said. "The only thick thing about it was at the end of the straw."

Mr Jacobson will play Boots, with his estranged fictional father Charlie, played by
The characters are reunited after a family tragedy, putting their differences aside to head off on a road trip from Warrnambool through the centre of New South Wales and Queensland to fish off the northernmost tip of Australia.

Tenterfield Shire Mayor Toby Smith said the movie would provide good exposure for Tenterfield as well as the Famous Pie Shop.

"The weather is wonderful and I am, of course, pleased that they stopped in town for the filming. We're a very historic town and this only adds to it. It's not every day that we have Paul Hogan and Shane Jacobson in town," Councillor Smith said.

Principal filming for Charlie and Boots will end on December 15. A release date has not been confirmed, but it is expected the film will screen in cinemas around Australia in September 2009.

Source: http://www.tenterfieldstar.com.au/news/local/news/general/crocodile-dundee-paul-hogan-and-shane-jacobson-of-kenny-fame-passed-through-town-on-tuesday-shooting-for-their-new-film-charlie-and-boots/1377606.aspx

"Ice Cream Man" (1995) DVD

Ice Cream Man (1995) is quite simply the best film EVER made!

Clint Howard's performance as Gregory grips you from start to finish. One would only expect a performance this superb from Lawrence Olivier, but Clint Howard has proved again that he is the best actor of our time and has no equals.

The film is studded with powerful cast. JoJo Adams (Tuna) has shown us that he is the next great child actor to hit Hollywood. The obvious pillow under his shirt throughout the whole film makes for good tongue and cheek moments of relief.

This film is electrifying, spell binding and awe inspiring. Quite simply the best film ever made. This film is in the same league as Casablanca and Gone With The Wind, and many other cinema classics.

Pizza, Beer and Ice Cream Diet

As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree
centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat.

For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg.  F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F).  For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above.  The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams.  Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized.

Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories.

Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat,the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal.

This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses.  Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process.  Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories.  It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.

Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (i.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.

Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect.  But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.

We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.

ps. Not to be taken seriously. 

Click here if you don't like pizza.

TV Epsiode - We All Scream For Ice Cream (2007 S2E10)

Buster the Clown (William Forsythe), a tragic victim of a prank gone awry, returns from the grave to murder those kids behind his death, now grown, by giving the men's children voodoo ice cream cones. When each child bites into the voodoo ice cream bars their fathers melt into ice cream!



More info at http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0817402/

101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavours From Around The World

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101 Frightening Ice Cream Flavors From Around The World

Eyes Cream Balls

A quick treat for kids are Eyes Cream Balls. You’ll need some vanilla ice cream (or other preferred flavor), corn flakes or sprinkles, chocolate chips and raisins.

Roll rounded scoops of ice cream in corn flakes or sprinkles. Then add eyes, nose and mouth with chocolate chips and raisins. Place your creations on a cookie sheet and put them in the freezer until time to devour.

As an alternative, you can create a pair of eyeballs with your ice cream balls. For this treat, you will need vanilla ice cream, strawberry syrup, M&M’s (blue, green or brown) and black decorating gel.

Simply scoop the ice cream into two balls about an inch apart. Drizzle syrup onto each ball to create a bloodshot effect. Put an M&M (logo facing down) at the center of each and top with a drop of black decorating gel to form a pupil. Enjoy at Halloween time!