[bizaro86]

Originally Posted by GordonBlue

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)

I'll take 18th century fashion trends that named a penguin for $100.

https://www.folly-farm.co.uk/zoo/mee...aroni-penguin/