Macaroons Escalated Quickly

Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by ssl232 on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:02AM (#39204601)

TIL macarons [1] are also known as macaroons [2]. Where I'm from, macaroons are dense, sweet coconut treats and the French sweets are known as macarons. But from the Wikipedia article I see macaroons mean many different things to many different people.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by ISV_Damocles on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:17AM (#39204789)

This feels relevant to the conversation: https://twitter.com/BigSpiderBack/status/864309383106240512/...

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by enriquto on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:19AM (#39204830)

> TIL macarons [1] are also known as macaroons [2]

Not to forget macarrons! Where I'm from, macarrons [3] is a kind of pasta (penne).

[3] https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macarrons

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by pasc1878 on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:28AM (#39204926)

Or in English macaroni https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroni

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by madcaptenor on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:23AM (#39204880)

In English "macaroni" is a kind of pasta. (I'm being deliberately vague because which pasta it is seems to vary.)

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by sph on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:25AM (#39204905)

And the original name for that type of pasta in Italian is "maccheroni" (which are straight tubes, unlike the ones used abroad for "mac and cheese")

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by gonzus on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:09AM (#39204681)

Switzerland has the similar Luxemburgerli, which my Swiss friends who reside there (as opposed to me, a Swiss person who lives somewhere else) swear is NOT the same as a macaron... I have never understood the purported differences.

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by cmcconomy on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:03AM (#39204616)

it messed with my head to hear that the english world interprets an "entrée" as a main course

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by ssl232 on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:04AM (#39204626)

American English, but not British. Dinner here is a starter, main course and dessert. "Entrée" messes with my head as well, since it very much sounds like a starter.

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by bdsa on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:07AM (#39204657)

It's French for starter, even

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by KineticLensman on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:19AM (#39204827)

> Dinner here is a starter, main course and dessert.

Yep. Check out the online menus in English restaurants and pubs. 'Mains' is the typical term used.

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by wiredfool on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:21AM (#39204848)

It's also the electrical supply. What a country.

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by ssl232 on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:29AM (#39204954)

And the water supply. And the central building on farms (in Scotland, at least). It's a silly country.

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by dboreham on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:10AM (#39205479)

Don't even think about "a la mode" then.

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by aidenn0 on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @11:59AM (#39206138)

I speak French, not Italian!

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by CoastalCoder on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:32AM (#39204995)

> Where I'm from, macaroons are dense, sweet coconut treats and the French sweets are known as macarons.

Same for me (New England, USA).

Both are delicious, but in my dialect they are not the same thing.

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by bageler on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @06:11PM (#39210770)

This is not a dialect thing, this is a factual thing. They are different, and anyone that uses macarOOn to mean a sweetly filled meringue sandwich is wrong.

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by demondemidi on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @10:10AM (#39204700)

I was just about to complain. Thanks for nipping it in the bud!

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Re:Macaroons Escalated Quickly by Nition on Wednesday January 31, 2024 @04:28PM (#39209659)

Oh funny, I actually came to this comment thread to point out that they'd accidentally used a picture of macarons instead of macaroons in the blog. But I guess not necessarily!

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