If you call them ‘jimmies,’ you're probably the type of person who roots for the Boston Red Sox.” Ice cream treats at the Crescent Ridge Dairy Bar in Sharon. Jonathan Wiggs / The Boston Globe ...

My husband’s English is as fluent as mine and we went completely native in the US…although he was putting Jimmies – hagelslag – on his bread, when they go on ice cream. They don’t go on bread. The ...

Yet at The Franklin Fountain, most customers ask for ‘sprinkles’, he said. And when he asked for jimmies at an ice cream shop in Miami, the scooper stared at him blankly.