In the Canadian military they don’t say “Idiot proof”, they say “Yank proof.”
Yanquis are high mileage sandles from Peru
Jan Kees
As an american, I thought yankee means American
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.
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
yanqui, gringo o gabacho, a veces, estadounidense.
heavy emphasis on the “dense” in estadounidense
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
‘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”.
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.
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
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.
I’ve had a modern version using brie and I became a fan.
The whole chart is apparently a reference to an E. B. White quote, and there may be some truth to the pie part.
I’m in the lavender zone.
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.
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.
I took myself out of the lavender but never the lavender out of me.
I would of said Derek Jeter.
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 should that 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
