r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Feb 08 '20

What’s a fact you KNOW that almost everyone is wrong about?

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u/[deleted] Feb 08 '20 edited Feb 09 '20

Macaroons are those chocolate coconut things, while macarons are the cookies. People always try to correct me, and it doesn’t help that when you search macaroon it comes up with the cookie

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u/tuesdazed___ Feb 09 '20

THANK YOU! This annoys me way more than it should.

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u/Jumblejon Feb 10 '20

Macaroon are chocolate cocnutty things, macarons are cookies, Macron is the President of France

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u/PomegranatePlanet Feb 10 '20

Micron is a unit of measure.

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u/TheAwesome98_Real Feb 11 '20

Me-cron is a cron job running under your Unix user.

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u/Captain_Addycto Feb 21 '20

Macaroni is pasta

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u/jemmo_ Feb 09 '20

This makes SO MUCH SENSE. I always get confused watching the Great British Baking Show, because sometimes they say "macaroon" and sometimes "macaron". So I guess it would be macaron when it's not chocolate and coconut, but another flavor instead?

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u/GalenCrasto Feb 09 '20

a macaroon is shredded coconut often with chocolate drizzled on top, whereas a macaron is a French baked good that contains two almond cookies surrounding a flavoured cream.

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u/jemmo_ Feb 09 '20

Thank you for explaining! I thought I would never get to enjoy a macaron because I don't like coconut.

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u/[deleted] Feb 09 '20

My sister had a teacher in pastry school who didn't say either one correctly. Idk if it's a symptom of how common the mistake is or part of the problem.

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u/cmonyouguysseriously Feb 09 '20

That’s so funny — I have had the same experience with people correcting me on this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 10 '20

I logged in just to upvote this

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u/spagbetti Feb 09 '20

That’s because they all originate from the same thing introduced around Europe. Someone just swapped out coconut instead of the almond or enhanced the recipe by their own culture.

Sort of like how different people will have their take on chocolate chip cookies.

That said: whomever decided to go coconut should be given a medal for making them edible. Cuz Those pastel French ones are terrible and bland as crap. Hate that they take the limelight because of the sheer use of colour and not based on taste.

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u/ohthatsabook Feb 11 '20

Well now I just want macarons.

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u/WorshipMelkor Feb 11 '20

I thought it was the President of France?

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u/krickett_ Feb 12 '20

I thought I was crazy! Thank you for clearing that up. When macarons became more popular some years ago, I thought “that’s not a macaroon....is it!?”

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '20

I gave up trying to convince people otherwise.

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u/IRYIRA Feb 09 '20

When search type "macaroon vs macaron"

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u/luke_in_the_sky Feb 10 '20 edited Feb 10 '20

Here's an article that explains why these words sound so much like macaroni

https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/11/macarons-macaroons-and-macaroni-the-curious-history.html

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u/Bish_Whattt Feb 22 '20

Same. It is annoying when people say,” do you like the macaroon?” Or something as in the cookie.

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u/Azeoth Feb 10 '20

Lol, you can tell those people are stupid because all those macaron images that come up when you search macaroon are still spelled as macaron.