A New England ice cream producer has changed the name of one of its most popular flavors after some claimed that its name, “Just Jimmies,” has a racist origin, Fox Business reported on Wednesday.
The new name of the flavor is “Just Sprinkles.”
“Jimmies” is the name many New Englanders have been using for about a century in place of what most Americans call sprinkles.
Some claim that it is a derogatory term related to racist Jim Crow legislation, although the history of the term is not clear.
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