Mac The Knife

There has to be a culinary equivalent of jumping the shark. Although, given issues with sustainable fishing, perhaps the shark is still appropriate...

Picture: The Food Fairy

I just read that McDonald’s in France sells macarons (what would you call them? McMacs?! Options too scary to contemplate). Surely this is the beginning of the end. And yet, other places are still contemplating the start of this trend. And if some of us are proprietorial about cupcakes, macarons inspire whole other levels of emotion (reasonably so - I imagine a bad macaron might be a far greater travesty than a dodgy cupcake).

These are surely what McDonald's macarons ought to look like (although I may be being overly kind to McDonald's in saying so). The actuality is a little too much like a borrowed version of the Hungry Jack's advertisement.

Picture: Baking 911

Along similar lines, I spotted somebody on the bus a few nights ago reading the new issue* of Real Living. And caught sight of a page** which showed the Keep Calm poster, and asked if this was the new trend. Surely now that the internet is quite so pervasive, there isn’t any justification for Australia to be 12 months behind the rest of the world? Still, we have had transport scrolls for a while now, though... maybe we’re just post-modern...

* Well, I think it was the new issue. It didn’t look dog-eared enough to be from a year ago or so...
** Really. Just a glimpse. Was not reading over shoulders (that spoils the fun of yet-to-be-read magazines. Even if I’m thinking of reading them in Borders (have got to cut back on the magazine gluttony).