r/comics • u/tabithajaneart • 3d ago

OC 2026 vs 1886 [OC]

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Great-great-great Grandma was serving

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u/Vospader998 3d ago

All the Yankees kept calling it "macaroni" for some reason and spoiled it for everyone else

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u/Kennedy_KD 3d ago

That's because Macaroni meant "fashionable" at the time period so the song is about an American dressing up in shitty counterfeit luxury clothes and acting like he's dressed in high fashion

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u/blankcld 3d ago

What is more American than adopting a song without understanding the lyrics and making it your personal anthem? Like Trump playing fortunate son at his klan rallies

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u/AngledLuffa 3d ago

the british meant it to insult the americans, then after the americans kicked them out (thanks for the help france), we played it back to them for the irony. it was understood perfectly well at the time

the returned insult was deliberate. very much unlike the klan rallies or paul ryan's ratm