macaroni
noun
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As you may have suspected, the macaroni in the song "Yankee Doodle" is not the familiar food. The feather in Yankee Doodle's cap apparently makes him a macaroni in the now rare "fop" or "dandy" sense. The sense appears to have originated with a club established in London by a group of young, well-traveled Englishmen in the 1760s. The founders prided themselves on their appearance, sense of style, and manners, and they chose the name Macaroni Club to indicate their worldliness. Because macaroni was, at the time, a new and rather exotic food in England, the name was meant to demonstrate how stylish the club's members were. The members were themselves called macaronis, and eventually macaroni became synonymous with dandy and fop.
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Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2024
Also available are fries, and potato and macaroni salads.
—Brianna Taylor, Sacramento Bee, 11 Apr. 2024
Scoring a good recipe for a baked macaroni & cheese can be tricky, what with family secrets and all.
—Melissa Oyler, Charlotte Observer, 31 Jan. 2024
This macaroni salad recipe, sent in by Keva Colston of Baton Rouge Louisiana, was published in the June 2007 issue of Southern Living and quickly garnered many favorable reviews and comments from readers.
—Southern Living Test Kitchen, Southern Living, 22 Feb. 2024
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“Macaroni.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/macaroni. Accessed 27 Jun. 2024.
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