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Tube pasta so basic it named both a cheese dish and an 18th-century fop.
means A short, tube-shaped pasta, and by old slang extension, a flashy dandy obsessed with the latest fashions.
from From Italian 'maccheroni,' the pasta's name, which likely traces back to Greek 'makaria,' a dish of barley broth, by way of Italian dialect words tied to crushing or kneading dough. The dandy sense comes from 18th-century young British men who toured Italy, picked up continental tastes including the pasta, and came home flaunting exaggerated fashions — earning the nickname 'macaroni' for their over-the-top, foreign-flavored style. That's also why 'Yankee Doodle' stuck a feather in his cap and called it macaroni: not food, but fashion so absurd it counted as a punchline.
- name origin
- from italian maccheroni, possibly tied to making dough energetically
- yankee doodle
- macaroni once meant a flashy, over-fashionable dandy
- shape logic
- the hole exists purely to trap more sauce
- box office
- kraft sells roughly a million boxes of mac and cheese daily