Macaroons or Macaroons?

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Which do you say and where are you from? 😊

ARGHHH! The title should say Macarons or Macaroons.

It’s obvious what the autocomplete likes!

They’re different things aren’t they?

Macarons for the meringue things, macaroon for Scottish coconut/potato bar.

Yes they are! But some shops don’t think so!

For clarity I mean these

Macaroons for the coconutty cakey things my Gran used to buy. Macarons for the coloured crumbly things they do on Bake Off.

I think of them as different things- macaroons= the coconut sticky blobs
Macarons- the French meringuey sandwich things

Different things.

Macaron is meringue based and macaroons are coconut based.

French style macaroons (ie macarons) are the colourful delicate ones made with ground almonds. Whereas traditional style macaroons are a bit frumpy and made with coconut.

They're different things though, are they not?

A Macaron is an often slightly disappointing round meringue, and (to me anyway) a Macroon is a highly delicious confectionary made from potato and icing sugar, coated in chocolate and rolled in coconut.

I’ve never heard of the potato macaroon (I’m right down south of England so maybe why).

The line seems to have blurred between rons and roons at some places. Paul’s uses the words interchangeably, are pic. They were marked in the window as macaROONS through.

They are completely different things, so I say the appropriate word for whichever one I want to buy.

Agree with everyone, they’re two different things.

Macaron

Macaroons

And the women in Paul’s said they were ROONS when bought them, “as on the website”. But as you can see they call them by both names on the website.

M&S call them ROONS

This is macaroon. Macarons are wee French things

AdaColeman But the shops call them different things! There is no appropriate word in the shops.

Macaron for the delicate and dainty French things. Promise so much but deliver so little.

Macaroon for the hearty and big boned coconut thingies that the Famous Five were awfully fond of.

The original Macaroons are also almond based, the things BusySittingDown has linked to are coconut macaroons, which came later, and have become more popular, so that hardly anyone now remembers the original. I remember them from my childhood (50+ years ago) as my mum made them, with rice paper on the bottom and an almond on top.
Like this: theenglishkitchen.blogspot.com/2010/02/almond-macaroons.html

I wonder why the shops are so diverse then?

This came about with me ringing round trying to find a blue macaRON and half the stores said they were macaROONS!

(Laduree do a blue macaron.)

What Rustybear said, though coconut macaroons are also very nice. The kind the OP is asking about I would call macarons. And the scottish variety also sound excellent.

Macaroons are lovely. (Not that disgusting bought bar upthread though, only homemade ones) Macarons are boring and taste of nothing.

Yes, almond macaroons with the rice paper are the very best!

Ooo those almond macaroons sounds really good, might have to make some. Wonder where I can get rice paper? Anyone else used to like eating plain rice paper? Don't know why, tastes of nothing.