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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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