In the Canadian military they don’t say “Idiot proof”, they say “Yank proof.”
I’ve been a new englander for almost 40 years and no one thinks “yankee” is specifically for Vermont or pie for breakfast eaters Also as a colorblind person this maps choice of colors is not great.
Clearly this was created by an unlicensed memer who would fail the Accessibility exam.
yanqui, gringo o gabacho, a veces, estadounidense.
heavy emphasis on the “dense” in estadounidense
Yanquis are high mileage sandles from Peru
As an american, I thought yankee means American
when am i supposed to eat my pie leftovers?
oh who am i kidding there are never pie leftovers. Jungkook save us from this nightmare so we don’t have to endure this mockery much longer
Jan Kees
I’ve been in about half the states and have never heard anyone use Yankee except in reference to history. It always meant the “north” during the civil war. Which today would largely mean New England
In the Greater Boston area it roughly translates to “a degenerate, filthy fuck”
Edit: that might actually be the same for the red sections on the map, just for different reasons
Really it’s their team that should have been named the Yankees. And it would have paired well with the Patriots.
Never speak of our team again in such a heathenish tongue
I don’t know what to make of the “pie for breakfast” reference. Anyone?
I think it’s a native new englander local stereotype about yankees eating pie for breakfast; implying that they eat too much.
Apple pie with (cheddar) cheese apparently was a New England staple in the 17th century, but I don’t know if anyone had it for breakfast.
A very old New Englander once to my girlfriend & me that we went together “like pie with cheese.” We had idea what to make of it.
Seriously. What kind of pie-with-cheese are we talking here? …cheesecake? Or pizza pie? Quiche? Or something like banana-havarti? Pineapple-brie? I’m vegan and curious.
Fruit pie. Mostly apple. It’s as American as… I dunno, I’m bad at analogy.
http://nothingtogein.weebly.com/police-investigationcourt-trials.html
“Ed Gein was soon arrested and held in jail for more than 30 hours, refusing to talk to any one. It wasn’t until he was confronted with Bernice Warden’s corpse and a slice of apple pie with cheddar cheese that he began to discuss the murders.”
Pie is powerful. Lol
I’ve had a modern version using brie and I became a fan.
I doubt it was a staple in the 1600s. New Englanders barely knew how to feed themselves at that time. If so it certainly didn’t have the sugar and spices that it is now.
Apple and Cheddar is a standard combo though. Cheddar was basically developed to go with Apples.
The whole chart is apparently a reference to an E. B. White quote, and there may be some truth to the pie part.
Addendum for Japan: Yankee ヤンキー more commonly refers to a (juvenile) delinquent
also came looking for the Japan exception. [disappointed weeb noises]
Same same.
As a new Englander, this is bullshit. No one says “Yankee” means “Vermonter”, what the hell is that? Lived here my entire life, that ain’t a thing
‘Seppo’
That’s fine among limeys, but I don’t think anyone else recognizes it.
Actually, that’s Australian slang. Or at least, we use it too.
Though mostly if we’re being impolite it’s just “yank”.
In the green area. Besides foreign references to Americans, the only time I’ve heard someone called a Yankee is when they are playing baseball.
I’m in the blue area and for us it refers to OG New Englanders. Usually used to contrast us against those dirty southerners.
The green part should be a gradient. As a New Orleanian, I consider all my fellow citizens north of about 30.1° latitude to be yankees unless they’re as far or further west than Texas.
