So, on FB I was responding to an Epicurious newsfeed about pie for breakfast(I am having a VERY productive day today) and somebody posted this:
"There's an old joke in New England. In the South, anyone from north of the Mason Dixon line is a Yankee. In the Northeast, it's anyone from New England. In New England a Yankee is someone from Vermont. In Vermont it's someone who has pie for breakfast."
Is it true?
Definition of a Yankee?
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i think nyrexall has the answer you are looking for
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why does he eat pie for breakfast?
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Artemis wrote:So, on FB I was responding to an Epicurious newsfeed about pie for breakfast(I am having a VERY productive day today) and somebody posted this:
"There's an old joke in New England. In the South, anyone from north of the Mason Dixon line is a Yankee. In the Northeast, it's anyone from New England. In New England a Yankee is someone from Vermont. In Vermont it's someone who has pie for breakfast."
Is it true?
I lived in North Carolina for a year, and one person I meet walked away from me and would not speak to me since I was a "Yankee." Some of them still have not gotten over the fact that they lost the war.In the South, anyone from north of the Mason Dixon line is a Yankee.
This is true. I haved lived primarily in NJ and NY and hadn't really thought about this until I moved to MA.In the Northeast, it's anyone from New England.
???In New England a Yankee is someone from Vermont. In Vermont it's someone who has pie for breakfast.
I never heard this; neither has my husband. Although my husband is an army brat and spent part of his adolescence overseas, nearly all of his family lives in NH (he was born in NH and graduated from H.S. there).
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chaos wrote:I lived in North Carolina for a year, and one person I meet walked away from me and would not speak to me since I was a "Yankee." Some of them still have not gotten over the fact that they lost the war.In the South, anyone from north of the Mason Dixon line is a Yankee.
reminds me of a conversation i had with an old guy at a bar in a small town in georgia(about 2 hours from atlanta). the guy asked me where i was from and when i told him he paused a minute and then said, "that's further north than them yankees."
i didn't think that people still said "yankee".
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It still boggles the fuck out of my mind that George W. Bush is a fucking Connecticut Yankee.
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Yet he claims to be a Texan not that I care about that being from CA but it makes me laugh since Austin is such a cool city and they tolerated him and Perry there for so long.