Remembering the Macaronis

[Jingthing]

OK, I wasn't even aware of the Macaronis. But now I am. Wonderful stuff.

The primary correspondent of the Public Ledger, calling himself A MAN, in several letters to the Public Ledger castigated Captain Jones’s supporters as ‘maccaronies’: ‘the country is over-run with Catamites, with monsters of Captain Jones’s taste, or, to speak in a language which all may understand, with MACCARONIES’.

http://rictornorton.co.uk/eighteen/macaroni.htm

It's interesting that the Yankee Doodle Dandy Song which talks about putting a feather in his cap and calling it Macaroni was originally intended to MOCK unsophisticated Americans as thinking a feather was enough to make a Macaroni, but the song got twisted and was embraced as a patriotic song by Americans instead.

Now here was a REAL Macaroni:

Apparently Dandies evolved from Macaronis and were considered less effeminate (and less linked to sodomites) than Macaronis.

Edited October 17, 2013 by Jingthing

[ToddWeston]

Great post - I think I like the term macaroni sounds better than being called rice.

[Dancealot]

Ohw.

I imagine myself being stuck in an elevator with a Swedish volleyball team, now.

Thanks, JT.

[Jingthing]

I am kind of wishing the Macaroni word had stuck.

Imagine: Macaroni Pride! Macaroni Liberation! Macaroni Marriage!

Edited October 17, 2013 by Jingthing

[sustento]

There are not many things I refuse to eat but macaroni cheese is one of them

[Jingthing]

There are not many things I refuse to eat but macaroni cheese is one of them

It's quite a versatile pasta actually.

I just had some, served with a pesto of olive oil, parm cheese, Thai red chilies, spicy mustard, and raw garlic w/ shiitake mushrooms, broccoli, avocado, and sliced chicken breast!

The Thais seems to love it. You'll find it done Thai style all over w/ no cheese.

At the time of the sodomite macaronis macaroni was considered as very exotic food of the traveled sophisticated elite.

Now of course it's common and cheap.

Hmmm.

Edited October 17, 2013 by Jingthing