Did Yankee Doodle Name the feather, hat, or his pony macaroni?

Answer 1

He stuck a feather in his hat and called it (the feather) macaroni

Answer 2

Well... actually the song started off as an English joke on the American colonists. Macaroni was a fancy style and the song is saying that Yankee Doodle is so ignorant he(aka the colonists) would think a feather in the hat is the height of all fashion when at the time, it wasn't.

But the Americans thought the song was funny and embraced it, so we still have it today.

Answer 3

Yankee Doodle went to town
Riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it Macaroni.

Why did Yankee Doodle call his hat a pasta?

He did not! He called it Macaroni. Big difference.

The 18th century saw the degeneration of European fashion into utter decadence. The centres for haute couture in that age were France and Italy; Macaroni referred to the fancy and overdressed style of Italian clothing the British imitated, as well as the dandies who adopted this style of dressing. Ridiculously elaborate headdresses were the In Thing for the women and the men's headgear was only slightly less ostentatious. Of course, the colonists, being pioneers, barely had time for themselves, let alone to adhere to the latest fashion – which was why they were still fashioning three-cornered tricorne hats long after the high-crowned beaver hat had replaced them in Europe10. The pompous British made fun of these relatively backward colonists by joking that only a New Englander could stick a feather in his tricorne or coonskin hat and fancy himself to be as spiffy as the European fashionplates.

Answer 4

The feather. Stuck a feather in his hat and called it Macaroni. The "it" refers to the feather because it was the object that Yankee took action on.

Answer 5

He's calling himself a macaroni. - "A "macaroni", in mid-18th-century England, was a fashionable fellow; the joke being that the Yankees were naive enough to believe that a feather in the hat was a sufficient mark of a Macaroni."

Answer 6

yankee doodle went 2 town, riding on a pony, stuck a FEATHER in his hat and called it macaroni!! lol!!

Answer 7

Yankee Doddle's name is Little Johnny Jones. He named his pony Macaroni! It is after all from a musical. Pony and macaroni rhyme!

Answer 8

The feather is named macaroni. He stuck it in his hat and gave it the name. :))))))) Had to sing it a few times though

Answer 9

He named the hat with the feather in it macaroni, genius! God, i rock at this game.

Answer 10

The Hat