I will not run my motor mouth on this...but if you MUST join the bandwagon,
Macaroons are confections typically made with shredded coconut.
This is a MACAROON :
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Macarons are the little colorful sandwich-looking French pastries that everyone's been goin' nuts about. This is a MACARON:
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Let's recite it together : MACARON! MACARON! MACARON! MACARON!MMMK? MMMK! That is all.
*end of rant*
Toodles!