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To make matters worse, the title and featured image make it very clear that they have confused "macaroons" and "macarons." Macaroon: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
by dbatten 3y ago
To make matters worse, the title and featured image make it very clear that they have confused "macaroons" and "macarons."
Macaroon: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaroon
Macaron: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macaron
- carbine 3y agoTHANK YOU came here to say this
- ryanjshaw 3y agoThis hurts my braincell. On "macaroon": > The name "macaroon" is borrowed from French macaron On "macaron": > A macaron, or French macaroon, is a ...
- 20after4 3y agofound this helpful video posted on a different subthread: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcHeO43kgE&t=622s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzcHeO43kgE&t=622s
- evancordell 3y agoTo be fair, this is a mistake that started with the Google paper, and everyone else just copies the mistake. The paper calls them Macaroons as a play on (browser) Cookies with layers (of caveats) - so clearly they meant macarons as well, since a macaroon doesn't have layers. Or at least, that's always been my interpretation of the name. It's possible it was just an arbitrary play on hMAC cookies and not the layers?
- DonsDiscountGas 3y agoI had that thought, although according to another comment the definitions have crossover. Probably because people so frequently confuse the two, but here we are.