In the Canadian military they don't say "Idiot proof", they say "Yank proof."
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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.
Yanquis are high mileage sandles from Peru
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
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.
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.
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"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.
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.
The whole chart is apparently a reference to an E. B. White quote, and there may be some truth to the pie part.
As an american, I thought yankee means American
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
Jan Kees
yanqui, gringo o gabacho, a veces, estadounidense.
heavy emphasis on the "dense" in estadounidense
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
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.
'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".
I wouldn't call a Canadian or Columbian "Yankee". A "Yankee" is someone from the usa, not America.
what "American" means around the world
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.
I would of said Derek Jeter.
I'm in the lavender zone.
I took myself out of the lavender but never the lavender out of me.
Same. The word Yankee means the following to me, in order of most to least relevant:
- A member of the New York Yankees.
- A derogatory term that people from the Bible Belt who still haven't accepted the result of the American Civil War use for people who live north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
- A more neutral (maybe slightly derogatory?) term that people from the UK use for all Americans, regardless of where they live in the US.
I have never heard someone refer to a New Englander as a Yankee.
North Carolinian here: The asshats from New England especially New York who move down here to escape their native climate and/or manmade hellscape and then scream at retail cashiers for not saying thank you are yankees.
We don't care how you do things up north. If you liked how things are done up north, go up north.
I'm from Pennsylvania. Agreed that New Yorkers as a whole are ruder and pushier than your average Northerner. To be clear, I'm talking about people from in and around the NYC area, though. They don't represent the general demeanor of people from the rest of the state.
I don't give a shit if you're from Long Island, the far tip end of Maine or Danville Virginia, I catch you bitching out a retail worker about how things are done "up north" you're what we in the South call A Fucking Asshole Who Needs To Go Home.
you don't need the tilde though, yanki is stressed on the yan part
Oh yeah. I’ve seen it written this way before and just aped it.
Jan-Kees -> Yankee
Seems like the lesson is no one wants to be one.
I would love to eat pie for breakfast
i'm partial to USian
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