When I was a kid I assumed that it was in reference to native Americans. Lately I began to wonder if it was actually in reference to people from India.

Internet says no.

9/16/2011 9:13:43 AM

I always thought feathers, not dots.

9/16/2011 9:14:41 AM

The kindergarten teachers I know now call it "criss-cross applesauce"

9/16/2011 9:14:57 AM

Probably because Indian Style is no longer PC

9/16/2011 9:15:39 AM

That's some horseshit right there.

9/16/2011 9:15:52 AM

9/16/2011 9:16:40 AM

"Native American style" isn't as fun to say as the rhyme is

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 9:17 AM. Reason : slow news day when I'm adding "Sitting Indian Style" to my topics]

9/16/2011 9:16:40 AM

^^^makes no sense.

stupid fucking pc'ers

9/16/2011 9:16:46 AM

I do understand not wanting to call it Indian style, but pretty much anything would be better than crisscross applesauce.

9/16/2011 9:18:25 AM

Quote :

"I do understand not wanting to call it Indian style, but pretty much anything would be better than crisscross applesauce."

Exactly. If you don't want to call it "Indian Style" just call it what it is: Sitting cross-legged.

Or better yet, if a child asks "Why do they call it Indian style?" Explain to them how the Native Americans were thought to be Indians when America was discovered. The name stuck for the longest time (still has) and that it's technically incorrect.

[Edited on September 16, 2011 at 9:24 AM. Reason : -]

9/16/2011 9:21:44 AM

So now the white man took not only their land, but they took their sitting style, removed all homage to their people and gave it a silly childish name

Fuckin' white people

9/16/2011 9:22:02 AM

You forgot the smallpox blankets, bro.

9/16/2011 9:23:45 AM

I said to my students (who are waiting for the bell to ring), "What do you call it when you're sitting on the floor with your legs crossed?" In unison, 27 freshmen said, "Criss cross applesauce." Some of them continued with some little rhyme like, "Criss cross applesauce. Sit down and you're the boss."

http://www.mamalisa.com/blog/criss-cross-applesauce-rhymes-and-sitting-style/

"Sit pretzel style?" What?!

9/16/2011 9:26:35 AM

^

9/16/2011 9:28:55 AM

That shit's gay

9/16/2011 9:29:14 AM

9/16/2011 9:59:08 AM

I've heard "criss-cross apple sauce". :/

9/16/2011 3:50:33 PM

Is "applesauce" some allusion to a horrible misfortune wherein someone pissed and shit their pants whilst attempting to sit or stand in this style?

9/16/2011 4:00:33 PM

Criss cross applesauce sounds dumb as hell and longer to say than "sit cross-legged." I still call it Indian style. Fuck the haters

Are we not allowed to call Indian summer Indian summer anymore?

9/16/2011 4:04:22 PM

Crisscross applesauce, spiders running up your back...........




Anyways, I've always thought that sitting Indian style is incredibly uncomfortable. I've never enjoyed it.

9/16/2011 4:39:17 PM

Criss-Cross Jew Boss

9/16/2011 4:57:02 PM

Quote :

"I said to my students (who are waiting for the bell to ring), "What do you call it when you're sitting on the floor with your legs crossed?" In unison, 27 freshmen said, "Criss cross applesauce." Some of them continued with some little rhyme like, "Criss cross applesauce. Sit down and you're the boss.""

my ex's mom used to say that shit all the time, it made no damn sense to me.

9/16/2011 5:17:22 PM

yeah my wife works at a day-care/preschool and they always say criss-cross applesauce, spoons in the bowl. Which is PC for saying keep your fucking hands to yourself

9/16/2011 5:21:38 PM

spoons in the bowl, haha wtf

9/16/2011 5:24:48 PM

Spoons on your balls.

9/16/2011 11:37:47 PM

Sitting "criss cross" should get the point across just fine.

9/17/2011 12:13:48 AM

I wonder whether they've thought of some fluffy and stupid-sounding euphemism for "Indian giver"

(the freecycling community has coined "ersatzgiver" but that's a bit clunky)

9/17/2011 5:51:51 AM

I'm a fan of crisscross applesauce.

[Edited on September 17, 2011 at 7:59 AM. Reason : One ]

9/17/2011 7:56:51 AM

^^ I'm wondering that too.

9/17/2011 10:29:35 AM

I sit like this probably 90% of the time when I'm sitting. I'm wondering if that has anything to do with why my knees are so bad?

9/17/2011 11:07:35 AM

this makes my feet fall asleep.

9/17/2011 11:30:10 AM

not fair to unflexible guys

9/17/2011 11:41:23 AM

where does "criss cross" come from?

What is a "criss"?

9/17/2011 12:44:27 PM

it comes from "Throw Momma From the Train"


Criss Cross

9/17/2011 12:45:55 PM

Quote :

"crisscross (v.) 1818, from M.E. crist(s)-crosse "Christ's cross" (late 15c.), earlier cros-kryst (late 14c.), "referring to the mark of a cross formerly written before the alphabet in hornbooks. The mark itself stood for the phrase Christ-cross me speed ('May Christ's cross give me success'), a formula said before reciting the alphabet" [Barnhart]. Used today without awareness of origin. As an adj., from 1846; as a noun, from 1848."

9/17/2011 3:04:45 PM

pretzel style is much better than that crisscross weaksauce gay retarded shit

9/17/2011 3:21:14 PM

OOOOOOO HE IS NOT SITTING CRISS CROSS!!!!!!!!

a million times a day

9/17/2011 6:51:41 PM

I heard this for the first time a couple weeks ago, girl looked at me like I was nuts because I didn't.know what crisscrossapplesauce was

If indian style was replaced simply because it isn't PC I think I'm gonna go full retard

9/18/2011 10:56:17 AM

These pretzels are making me THIRSTY

9/18/2011 11:02:36 AM

Quote :

"If indian style was replaced simply because it isn't PC I think I'm gonna go full retard"

That's precisely why it was changed.

9/18/2011 11:29:27 AM

Criss cross applesauce
Spiders crawling up your back
Cat scratch Dog Bite
Spiders crawling up your back
Tight squeeze
Cool Breeze
now you got the shiveries

9/18/2011 11:46:41 AM

I went full retard years ago. JOKE'S ON YOU AAAAHAHAHABAHAHGGHGHG

9/18/2011 12:07:04 PM

early childhood programs can lose points toward their license if they're heard saying "indian style"

9/18/2011 12:23:02 PM

If I ever have kids I'm going to teach them to say Indian Style and correct all the other kids when they say some silly criss cross junk

9/18/2011 12:25:23 PM

Bttt for Sherlyn Chopra, the first Indian woman to pose nude for Playboy.

8/1/2012 11:05:31 AM

hahahahha

A+ i have always been under the same impression

8/1/2012 11:06:20 AM

I never called it "Indian Style". That shit is stupid. It's always just been cross-legged.



Also, this:

8/1/2012 11:36:49 AM

This is what is wrong with america today. We got to be great by shitting all over the red man and now we have to say criss cross fucking applesauce. RIP america.

8/1/2012 12:13:45 PM

'fuck you say?

8/1/2012 12:16:24 PM

Quote :

"Criss cross applesauce sounds dumb as hell"

keep in mind we're talking about kindergardeners. they probably think is sounds funny and like it.

8/1/2012 12:20:14 PM