Why Yankee Doodle called it "macaroni"
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- Опубликовано: 25 янв 2016
- What's the deal with Yankee Doodle Dandy and macaroni? Vox's Phil Edwards explains.
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We've all heard the Yankee Doodle Dandy lyrics and wondered what they meant. But the Yankee Doodle song turns out to have a surprisingly logical explanation.
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Yankee Doodle went to town, riding on a pony. Got 360 noscoped and rest in pepperoni.
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Shadowfeather Frowncrest Haha good one.
rip in pepperoni*
@@vietshiro7923 no it stands for rip
@@RonaldPrescott1 thats wrong
Vox asking the real questions
+starrychloe we kinda don't....
That's actually terrifyingly inhuman.
ramenm very true...
Imagine if Yankee doodle was the American national anthem.
It’s Connecticut’s State Song.
@@crixxxxxxxxx Yes your right.
truly based anthem then
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Anyone else realized you haven't had macaroni and cheese for awhile?
+Ash R It's been YEARS.
I eat pasta everyday of course i eat maccheroni
Never actually
cheeno same...
How did you know?
I always thought it was the horse he called Macaroni.
+Will Parkinson Dang dangling participles!
+Will Parkinson - That's a great name for a race horse. They always have crazy names.
"Macaroni secured the victory for us!"
same here...
The horse's name was Friday
Omg Lafayette you absolute savage.
LAFAYETTE!
Everyone give it up for America's favorite fightin' Frenchman!
the lancelot of the revolutionary set.
+poolerboy0077 no it was probably American fries
+mandylou4 Long Live the Marquis!!!
+mandylou4 im taking this horse by the reigns making red coats redder with bloodstains
I know why he called it "macaroni".
It rhymed with "pony".
@Ahmed G. Phony
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Yes
LOL
He could have called it Baloney.
lol the hipster checklist xD
Holy shit I needed this video
+iilikecereal
Didn't know I needed it till I saw it
I don't want fop damn it, I'm a Dapper Dan man
Watch your language son, this here's a public market. Now if you want Dapper Dan I can order it for ya, have it in a couple of weeks.
+Apollo Fell Well ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere!
i just shed a tear in pride
55giantsfan22 it will be two weeks.
big mike you didn't even try
So they sang the song back to the British IRONICALLY like the hipsters they are
@Santino EGL NA nope there still hipsters but also winners
I got so excited when they mention Lafayette and The Battle of Yorktown.
Macaroni and Cheese.
Meal of Champions.
My hometown, Norwalk, Connecticut has the claim that the soldier, Colonel Thomas Fitch, V is the person that inspired this song. His sister put the feathers in the soldiers' caps so as to create a uniform look from a group without any uniform. His grave marker has an account of the story in the East Norwalk Historical Cemetery.
Norwalk has a bridge named the "Yankee Doodle Bridge." and Yankee Doodle is the state song of Connecticut.
Unfortunately, the song was around about 12 years before the events described in the legend occurred. So the legend could not be true.
No way I went to school in Madison and they taught us the same thing
@@jacksonchontos2910 What did they teach you? That Madison is the home of Yankee Doodle, or that Norwalk is. I am pretty sure the song is at least 14 years older than the French and Indian War.
@@gregbard yea about Norwalk
I personally thought that it was:
"Yankee Doodle Drew His Gun And Fought His Macaroni"
I didn't know how it made sense but I followed it anyway. #IMSTUPID
Paitience Diamonds threw it at a nearby girl that was riding on a pony. XD
Was online a good twenty minutes before getting any of this titillating and concise information. I am absolutely impressed. Keep more content like this coming and I will be sure to let friends and colleagues know of your awesome brand of knowledge sharing.
That's so much like my bro Lafayette - what a jokester!
Ikr
I thought it was a phrase that meant oh he has gone crazy
Jesus Herrera Comedy exactly what I thought too-but I much much prefer the real truth behind it lol well up until vox told me the song ended up being thrown back at us Brits when we surrendered 😆 swings and roundabouts I guess! Haha
This so called italians dish "Mac&Chees" sounds more like the german dish wich ist called Kässpätzle (Käs(e) = Cheese, Spätzle tiny noodle wich got their name from the romian (former italian) which called that noodles spezzate what means broken/cut (noodles). Kässpätzle is served with a lot of onions, cheese and bacon
Yeah, but that doesn't rhyme with pony.
I'm British and I used to sing this as a child, as did other children I knew. I had no idea at the time it had anything to do with America (not being familiar with the term Yankee yet) it was just a fun silly nonsense to me.
I'm an American, so I grew up knowing that the song was patriotic in nature. But when traveling, I too noticed that people in other places tend to play it..
@@awakenow7147 it was first used by the british to mock the us but then the us turned it into a patriotic song and now it’s everywhere
I so appreciate history.......loved it. If I was home schooling you would be on a must see list of videos.
Now I understand clearly... I always like this song and like to sing it when marching from class to class :) and now I understand finally the macaroni
I've seen this and your snail video.
I now love your channel.
Lafayette being cool as always
Large baguette
The argument they say at 0:49 could be one explanation. However, another could be since these young aristocrats where taking the Grand Tour of Europe they would also be well educated, therefore they could be able to use Macaronic language. This is when two or more languages are mixed together, in this context it would often be for comedic effect. The best example I can think of is "Do you have to go the bathroom?, Oui Oui!". So the macaronis could be named after their usage of the Macaronic language at the time as well.
LONG LIVE THE MARQUIS!!!
the definition of macaroni is "A person that over dresses in fancy clothing"
The little specks in the backround were making me 😜
American president face:😏 Macaroni:🍔 burger. Me:🌭 hot 🥵 dog 🐕
This song just got a million times better.
Well, I'm off to eat some macaroni.
I was actually just thinking about this when this popped up on youtube
way better than today I found out!!
I already knew this. 2 smart 4 you vox! does that make me a hipster? and does that make me a macaroni?
i wish you guys had mentioned how dandy fashion was a response to how flamboyant and opulent macaroni was, and so it favored masculine, simple materials and styles. which is really interesting because when the word dandy is used today, it's to describe someone who is vain and overly interested in fashion.
Now i know where the macaroni part of Yankee Doodle comes from. Macaroni actually goes way back to the 15th century, something else i didn't know.
What's more surprising is why Yankee decided to put a feather in his hat or cap or whatever. And who is Yankee?
Great Jamie yankee is an American, why we are called that, don't know, but then again why do leaves fall from trees
Love it
Love it..
Americans: Maybe the true macaroni are the friends we made along the way.
bruh im not even watching this for school😂
this is brilliant
Cool!!!
Yankee Doodle: You have the advantage over me; You see, you know my name, but I don't know yours.
Macaroni: Well, what name do you like?
YD: Well, I've always been fond of the name, "Macaroni."
M: Well, that's a coincidence, because my name happens to BE Macaroni."
1:41 "Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!"
Those lyrics confused me as a child. But it makes more sense now that i know macaroni was a fashion craze in the 16 and 1700s. The first thing that came to mind was the foodstuff.
Very interesting
Mac and cheese be bussin.
I always thought he was naming his pony macaroni.
never wanted to punch my monitor so much
"Yankee doodle went to town, riding on a chicken. Stuck his finger up his b*** and called it finger-lickin'." Alternate version we sang in Jr. High.
Interesting!
Did someone say CIVILIZATION?
the Patriots where all like "no you."
*See i already knew this i only clickeld On the video because it was a thorn in the recommended bar each time i Listened to Yankee doodle on youtube.*
My 2nd grade teacher said it was macaroni because of the penguins. Idk why she told us that
I had Jumpstart 3rd grade as a child
Hahaha! Perfect.
"fop" 😂😂
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Great scott! its Doc Brown!
1:46
Libtits nowadays would side with with the British. The British got their asses kicked my a bunch of Yankee farmers and we made the greatest country in the world.
Rock lore: 🥱
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Nursery Rhyme lore: 😎
Who else is watching this on 4th of July eating macaroni and cheese?
wonder what alexander hamilton said at york town when lafayette started singing ¿¿
alena jade I bet he joined in😂
ahhhhh
Nice singing Phil
Oh snap
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You're not supposed to deepen your voice at the "went to town" it's supposed to be at the same note
Brilliant history lesson but it needs a squirt of sriracha.
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in a nutshell:
british: noo you cant just use our song about hating you and making a song about a pride!
america: haha yankee doodle go splankee doodle
So when I sing Yankee doodle should I not feel pride in america? It feels like vox is trying to talk more smack than the revolutionary war British right now.
Has anyone else known about this for a while?
So they were spitting' bars?
So I learned something today
i learned about this today in ap us history today lol
So there was no macaroni club in England?
Well Jeffy from SML sang that song yacklo doodle and called it macaroni
i know why he called it "macaroni"
when Yankee Doodle get out of his car there is somebody who try to steal it, then Yankee Doodle shout out to his body guard named Ronnie: "MY CAR RONNIE!!!"
mentions marquis de lafayette
my brain: do it
me: NO
my brain: *LAFAYETTE!*
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Also the French was so mad the the British DIDN'T want to surrender to the U.S. they played it at them to mock them and call the stupid
For the last time: maccaroni cheese is NOT an Italian dish
The guy you have at 0:35 as XVII century is actually a XVIII century guy dressed normally. RIP History.
BARNEY & FRIENDS' theme song has the same, exact melody as "Yankee Doodle". The song is on my obsolete keyboard on the majour side of the song bank.
I noticed that
...oh.
At the time, there were hundreds of versions of this song. The tune goes back to the 1400s
Oh my god. one day the references to things being hip will confused the heck out of people.
Rule Britannia!
I always wondered why he was riding in on a pony....couldn’t the man acquire a regular horse
we all no it means fancy
Mac & cheese is my favorite food ever
Avocado Toast went to town. Riding in an Über. Stuck a feather in his hat and called in Guacamole.
❤❤❤❤❤❤ Yankee
Really want some pasta now...
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I knew this when I was 5, and that was way back in 1969.
So the word macaroni describes fashion popularized by people who liked to eat macaroni?
that image of a macaroni is going to give me nightmares
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