TIL that the reason Yankee Doodle stuck a feather in his cap and called it 'macaroni' was because at one time macaroni was slang for something very fashionable or trendy en.wikipedia.org Submitted by elephantsgraveyard t3_11afvc4 on February 24, 2023 at 2:17 AM in todayilearned 87 comments 1,455
Slurm818 t1_j9tj23m wrote on February 24, 2023 at 1:32 PM I thought that macaroni was a high end hat making company and Yankee Doodle was just being a buffoon Permalink 1
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