AdamLooking through OED (2nd edition cos that's what I have. "macaroni" earliest citation is 1599; "spaghetti" 1849; "pizza" not until *1935* (and not until 1957 was it cited in a way that suggests the reader might already know what it was)
Sion [main]@pseudomonas Is that the pasta definition of "macaroni" or did the others come later? (Obviously the penguin comes later, if not last)
@sparrowsion That's the pasta. "1599 B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. ii. i, He doth learne‥to eat ænchouies, maccaroni, bouoli, fagioli, and cauiare."
Sounds like these are thought of as weird exotic things, but at the same time they're not glossed. There's a citation under "pasta" from 1673:
"1673 J. Ray Observations Journey Low-Countries 405 Paste made into strings […](which if greater they call _Macaroni_, if lesser _Vermicelli_) […]"
(that of course is treating them somewhat as foreign words)
@sparrowsion huh. "Macaroni" in the sense of "dandy" turns up suddenly in the 1760s and catches on immediately. The penguin with the dandified hairdo is 1838 (I'd've guessed later; and the citation for 1838 makes it sound like the term had been in common enough use before that)