I have no idea what that was supposed to mean and I doubt that BroJoe does either. It’s just more of the habitual post-modern yankee attempt to denigrate even when it makes no sense.
Good humor is missing from their character, but then it notably was from the deracinated puritans that were the first yankees. So I suppose it’s to be expected.
I think Uncle Remus had that in mind when he spun the story about avoiding the tarbaby.
Even the early, fully-racinated Congregationalist Yankees were like that.
The late historian Richard Hofstadter, while compiling his last, posthumously-published book (America to 1750, which he intended to be the first volume of a heavyweight, multivolume manual history), found the smoking gun of Yankee truculence against the South in the private journal of a Congregationalist minister who paid an extended visit to Charleston and surveyed its successful, bustling society in the mid-1600's, and found it utterly, utterly wanting. The frost on his comments adumbrate the Civil War. The Carolinians were, after all, Beyond the Pale. Which, to a Congregationalist back then, just about the whole world was, who were not among the Elect of the congregation.
Tar baby is perfect description.
I think I sort of understood the other thing. I think he was going for Moby Dick Head.
LMAO.
See my post above.
Gutted, fileted, floured and sauted.
At your service....