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GordonBlue · 11-12-2020, 01:35 PM

I didn't know until recently what macaroni referred to in Yankee Doodle

"stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni"

During the 1770s there emerged a new type of fashionable fellow: the Macaroni, whose style was frequently and easily lampooned by cartoonists and the media.
https://www.historytoday.com/miscell...meet-macaronis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_(fashion)

11-12-2020, 01:35 PM	#185
GordonBlue Franchise Player Join Date: Dec 2016 Location: Alberta Exp:	I didn't know until recently what macaroni referred to in Yankee Doodle "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni" During the 1770s there emerged a new type of fashionable fellow: the Macaroni, whose style was frequently and easily lampooned by cartoonists and the media. https://www.historytoday.com/miscell...meet-macaronis https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni_(fashion)