Ladybug Plays with Sprinkles!*

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This east coast freak would call those sprinkles. Jimmies are long and skinny.

Anthony Hecht on December 17, 2010 at 8:41 AM Stranger Staff

Dear internet (and Slog), you've been killin' it lately. Thank you, and keep up the great work.

Tracy on December 17, 2010 at 9:00 AM

"Waiter, my aphids are all big and round and sugary!"

venomlash on December 17, 2010 at 9:51 AM

Aww, poor lil girl is starving and confused! Those sprinkles look like lady beetle prey but they keep rolling away, and even when she grabs ahold, they aren't full of bug juice as expected. Maybe she's geting some sugar off the outside.

anarchy burger on December 17, 2010 at 9:54 AM

I saw that and thought, "trying to eat them." I'm not sure a beetle brain has the ability to play in the sense that mammals do. Maybe this is why my friends have always called me a "downer".

emor on December 17, 2010 at 10:12 AM

I agree with Anthony. Jimmies are the long skinny things. I'm from Pittsburgh, where I was a cake decorator. In the kitchen, the round ones are called nonpareils.

DowntownTaylor on December 17, 2010 at 10:45 AM

Sugar high!

Fnarf on December 17, 2010 at 10:52 AM

Ditto @1 and @6. Same thing in Cleveland.

Mary P. Traverse on December 17, 2010 at 11:34 AM

Ditto @ 1 and @ 6. Same thing in Los Angeles, and from Portland (OR) as far as I have seen and heard.

kim in portland on December 17, 2010 at 11:56 AM

Yep, def not jimmies. As a side note, have you ever looked at the calories in jimmies? Yikes!

DCGirl on December 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM

Eeeeeeeee!!! Bethany, thank you. This cheered me up during a very crappy week. Instant favourite!

I will now proceed alternating Metal Parrot with World Cup Superstar Ladybug until the medication kicks in (a dry martini at 5).

Irena on December 17, 2010 at 12:40 PM

Upstate New York: THEY'RE ALL SPRINKLES YOU FOOLS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

dwight moody on December 17, 2010 at 1:25 PM

@12: That's what I thought. That's Canada (well, Toronto ... well, downtown Toronto ... who knows what goes on in the Greater Area) though.

Gloria on December 17, 2010 at 1:39 PM

The correct name for those things is hundreds and thousands.

Fnarf on December 17, 2010 at 2:35 PM

I don't give a damn what the correct name is. They're "ladybug soccer balls" from now till forever as far as I'm concerned.

Irena on December 17, 2010 at 3:57 PM

Agree with @1, 6, & 8, sprinkles are round, jimmies are long (and usually brown.) Don't even *think* about ordering the long brown ones at Baskin Robins in Mass. and referring to them as "sprinkles"...

Also agree with those who felt sorry for poor micro-brained ladybug...why does the food always roll awaaaaay???

Canuck on December 17, 2010 at 4:02 PM

@Dwight Moody another grew up in Upstate, NYer here, um Schenectady and we called all of them sprinkles. Love the ladybugs though. Jimmies seemed like more of a New England term.

flippingthroughrecords on December 17, 2010 at 8:47 PM

Ladybug Plays with Sprinkles!*

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