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re: Ole Miss Fans: What does Hotty Toddy mean?
Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:33 pm to Landmass
Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:33 pm to Landmass
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The cheer goes back to the WW2 days.
Hot Toddy - Irish drink when you are sick
In the South, long before WW II
Booze + honey + lemon which is then headed and consumed warm when you are sick or have a cold.
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Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:41 pm to UpToPar
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I did google it. And all google says is that it's a chant or rally cry and also a winter cocktail. I assumed there was some deeper meaning behind it or at least some story as to how it originated other than "it's just some made up words that we chant."
Written history is relatively new in those parts of Mississippi. Not surprised you couldn’t find much.
Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:41 pm to UpToPar
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it's just some made up words that we chant
It's racist in nature and they cling to it because there's no documented meaning of it.
But, it's basically a call to celebrate all of their racist history. It's cultural in nature. It's very similar to the A&M homo thing...out in the open, very much embraced, but not overt.
Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:42 pm to Cheese Grits
It's not from the Hot Toddy drink. It's from hoity toity.
Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:42 pm to UpToPar
Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:42 pm to moneyg
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It's racist in nature
Shut the frick up with this stupid nonsense.
Guess what... frick you.
Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:44 pm to UpToPar
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Thanks! When you say it goes back to WW2, was it used by some Mississippi affiliated battalion? I can't imagine WW2 soldiers taking pride in essentially being called hoity toity.
They even used it in Band of Brothers during boot camp.
Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:44 pm to UpToPar
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When you say it goes back to WW2, was it used by some Mississippi affiliated battalion?
The cadence was used in WW2. There’s a version of it in Band of Brothers.
After the war a lot of schools used their own versions, brought back by the men returning home & playing football
Posted on 9/18/26 at 3:47 pm to UpToPar
Its just a fun chant but not near as annoying when lsu fans switch from speaking near english to that "gouuuuueaaxx tigggyyys" fake arse inflection/accent thing yall do .
To each is own I guess. You are going to hear alot of it Saturday.
To each is own I guess. You are going to hear alot of it Saturday.
Posted on 9/18/26 at 4:36 pm to UpToPar
Posted on 9/18/26 at 5:23 pm to UpToPar
I always thought it was a reference to a hotty toddy, some combination of liquor, honey and either lemon or lime juice warmed up when you have a runny nose. My granny and mama made them for us when we were kids and I still take one once in a while when feeling puny....it always made sense to me that it would be part of Ole Miss's fight song or wherever they use it since they seem sickly and puny most of the time....
Posted on 9/18/26 at 6:23 pm to AwgustaDawg
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I always thought it was a reference to a hotty toddy, some combination of liquor, honey and either lemon or lime juice warmed up when you have a runny nose. My granny and mama made them for us when we were kids and I still take one once in a while when feeling puny
It is. The replies in this thread have been a disappointment. Weird that Ole Miss fans don’t even know. This was a drink known to me even as a kid. It was called a hot toddy.
Posted on 9/18/26 at 6:27 pm to UpToPar
Always thought it was drink.
Saying it was kinda of like saying, "Cheers!"
Saying it was kinda of like saying, "Cheers!"
Posted on 9/18/26 at 6:37 pm to UpToPar
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