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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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