2006-12-25 05:57:41 · 15 answers · asked by i'll make you think!! 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
To confuse the British. The Redcoats would be like "WTF is he calling it macaroni?" and while they were befuddled, the Americans would attack.
2006-12-25 06:02:21 · answer #1 · answered by themikejonas 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A macaroni, in mid-18th-century England, was a fashionable fellow who dressed and even spoke in an outlandishly affected manner. The term pejoratively referred to a person who exceeded the ordinary bounds of fashion in terms of clothes, fastidious eating and gambling.
Elerth Morrow basically said it...its the same as saying you are "cool".
2006-12-27 00:55:56 · answer #2 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because Yankee Doodle had just got done blazin' up and he had the munchies.
2006-12-25 14:02:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Macaroni in that time and dialect ment something similar to "decoration" like a decorated officer in war.
2006-12-25 14:00:33 · answer #4 · answered by Not a hippie 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He had to rhyme something with pony.
He could have called it Bony Maronie, or Tony.
Maybe he was hungry at the time, LOL
2006-12-25 14:02:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
cuz yankee doodle is what we like to call "special"
2006-12-25 14:00:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
mayb he liked eatin macroni as much as i do...n plus y do u wanna noe?? his hat, his feather, his wish!! haha....by da way...u DID make me thnk for a change!!
2006-12-25 14:12:06 · answer #7 · answered by princessMD 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because that was an old expression meaning "cool".
2006-12-25 14:00:11 · answer #8 · answered by Elerth Morrow ™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who gives a #$@$ look it up on the internet
2006-12-25 14:00:31 · answer #9 · answered by I Wont Tell 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
cause lasagna was taken
2006-12-25 14:02:48 · answer #10 · answered by Sue F 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋