Did Yankee Doodle name the feather, hat, town, or his pony Macaroni?

Answer 1

The Macaroni Club consisted of young, wealthy British gentlemen who traveled
to France and Italy and adopted the ostentatious and flamboyant fashions
popular in those countries during the eighteenth century. The Macaronis, not members of a true club but rather a new generation of continental society, were often ridiculed by the British establishment.

from: http://www.jolique.com/social_status/yankee_doodle.htm

The joke was that a colonial—a Yankee "dandy"—would stick a feather in his tricorne or coonskin cap and think himself as fashionable as any man à la mode in Paris or Rome.

from: http://www.yourdictionary.com/library/yankee.html

Answer 2

Yankee doodle went to town,
riding on a pony,
he stuck a feather in his hat,
and called it macaroni!
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i heard it from a professor that the reference was to the pony, although it doesn't sound like it

Answer 3

well the song says he stuck a feather in his hat and called it macaroni.

Answer 4

The feather.

Answer 5

The feather. That is why they repeat the refrain, to make it clear.

Answer 6

hat.