Yankee Doodle Dandy was probably the first song I learned in school as a child, as did most of us. But did we know what the lyrics meant? Especially the part about "stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni"? I was pretty sure it had nothing to do with pasta!
It wasn't until my next door neighbor sent me this card from Colonial Williamsburg that I finally knew the story behind macaroni. Here's the caption from the back of the card. Now we know...
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