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
Lothran t1_j9tm1jq wrote on February 24, 2023 at 1:55 PM It was the Macaroni Club, which was a club for dandy aristocrats at the time. Putting the feather in the hat and calling it macaroni was throwing shade at them. Permalink 1
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