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[–] [S] 27 points 6 months ago (4 children)

I don’t know what to make of the “pie for breakfast” reference. Anyone?

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I think it's a native new englander local stereotype about yankees eating pie for breakfast; implying that they eat too much.

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Addendum for Japan: Yankee ヤンキー more commonly refers to a (juvenile) delinquent

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  • [–] 44 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

    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

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 9 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    In the Canadian military they don't say "Idiot proof", they say "Yank proof."

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    As an american, I thought yankee means American

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Yanquis are high mileage sandles from Peru

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    I would of said Derek Jeter.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] -1 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • 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.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Jan-Kees -> Yankee

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    you don't need the tilde though, yanki is stressed on the yan part

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Seems like the lesson is no one wants to be one.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I wouldn't call a Canadian or Columbian "Yankee". A "Yankee" is someone from the usa, not America.

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago

    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

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    [–] 19 points 6 months ago* (3 children)

    I didn't realize that people along the borders and coasts of every country and US state ate pies for breakfast....

    ...interesting.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    They consider that "Yankee" means somebody that eats pie for breakfast. What is a completely different thing.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    No, in Japan it means "teenage delinquent"

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

    Ok I’m gonna have to ask the Vermonter part of my family about this. I will say, I don’t think of people from New England as the exclusive Yanks, speaking as someone from NJ. It’s anyone from the north when you’re talking to fellow US citizens and all US citizens when you’re talking to someone from outside the country as far as I’m concerned

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    Do people in Washington, Montana and North Dakota think of Canadians as Yankees, it is the concept of 'north' weird there?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Canadians are not yankees. Yankees are from the southeast. The entire east coast of the US is far further south than most people realize.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    local yanke go home:

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  • [–] 0 points 6 months ago (1 child)