Reply to: Macaroon snuggles up to Pootin

[d000hg]

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

yes its not genocide until you murder a large number of people of the same race with intent. How large? What intent ?

I think most of those have a tick in the box.

What race is he intent on murdering? Is there a racial element to it? He isn't trying to wipe out a certain racial group (AFAIK) he's trying to seize territory he claims is already full of his own people.

Nah only calling you one.

Can't tell if this is a lame joke or proving my point.

[SueEllen]

I applaud someone not rushing to throw words around lightly. A bit like calling everyone a racist.

Nah only calling you one.

[vetran]

I applaud someone not rushing to throw words around lightly. A bit like calling everyone a racist.

https://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/genocide.shtml

yes its not genocide until you murder a large number of people of the same race with intent. How large? What intent ?

1. A mental element: the "intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such"; and
2. A physical element, which includes the following five acts, enumerated exhaustively:
   • Killing members of the group
   • Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group
   • Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part
   • Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group
   • Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group

I think most of those have a tick in the box.

[d000hg]

Course not the Vichy government is a littles sensitive.

I applaud someone not rushing to throw words around lightly. A bit like calling everyone a racist.

[vetran]

Genocide has a somewhat specific meaning, just like "war crimes". Seems a non-story. Macron doesn't want to use a term lightly.

Course not the Vichy government is a littles sensitive.

[vetran]

No. Sometimes the person arguing is so self-evidently stupid and/or deluded that ad hominem attacks are the only logical approach. You tosser.

Yeah because Macamorron is a great statesman

[vetran]

I see the OP uses a racist slang term in the title, nothing new there then...https://slangdefine.org/m/macaroon-452.html

I see the feckwits are out again

https://dannymacaroons.com/blogs/mac...oons-come-from

And you've probably wondered something along the lines of "where do macaroons come from," or "why are all these cookies called macaroons when they don't look anything alike?!"

Let us help.
THE ANCIENT HISTORY OF MACAROONS


The story goes back more than 1000 years to the Arab empire of the 600-700s. When the empire expanded up through Northern Africa into what's now Sicily, the Arabs, as you'd expect, brought their foods with them.

One of the foods they brought with them was a sweet "cookie" made from honey and a ground up nut flour - probably pistachio, but possibly also almond or other nuts.

The Sicilians called this food "maccheroni" as it was made up of a ground nut and maccheroni referred to any food, savory or sweet, made from something ground up - nut, wheat, whatever.

Over time, the sweet maccheroni evolved to incorporate egg whites for leavening and utilized the bitter almonds known so well throughout the Italian peninsula.

This cookie, made from ground almonds, sweetened with sugar, and leavened with egg whites, is more or less what we still know today as the Italian macaroon (the Italians know it as "amaretti" as maccheroni no longer refers to quite as broad an array of foods as it once did).
EXPORTING MACAROONS TO FRANCE


In the 1500s, Catherine de Medici, from one of the most prominent Italian families, married into French royalty and moved to France. Like the Arabs almost 800 years before her, she, too, brought her favorite cookies with her.

It was here that she introduced the sweet Italian "maccheroni" to the French. Upon their adoption into French cuisine, the Italian maccheroni were directly translated into French as "macarons."

It wasn't until the early 1900s when Pierre Desfontaines, the grandson of a fellow named Lauduree who owned a bakery bearing his name, sandwiched the two macarons around a chocolate ganache filling. Pierre introduced this sandwich to his grandfather's bakery and more or less from then on, the French macaron formally diverged from its Italian origin as this form became what's now commonly known as a macaron.
AND THEN COCONUT


It's not a stretch to imagine swapping out almond flour for ground up coconut. As coconut grew in popularity from its introduction to Europe by Vasco de Gama in the 1500s to the international food boom in post WWI and WWII United States, chefs and bakers sought out new ways to use new ingredients. The swap of almond flour for shredded coconut was, as far as we're concerned, a stroke of brilliance that stuck with the market.

The form is quite different from the original Italian macaroon or amaretto, and certainly different still from the French macaron's sandwich, but this is largely due to the size of the "flour" - those macaroons use a very finely ground nut flour whereas coconut macaroons utilize a much coarser "flour." Otherwise, they're the same!

We've taken the coconut macaroon's humble origin and tried to spice them up a bit. We hope you enjoy what you find here.

[malvolio]

You start then, you crowd sourcing millennial with a woke binge watching Karen as a remoaner friend....

You want to try that in English. You might get an answer. But since it is semantically empty I doubt it.

[darmstadt]

One day I might understand this need for anonymous cliché-spouting nonentities to try and prove they are superior to some other anonymous entity merely because they hold different views on a subject. Why they don't try and hold a constructive argument to persuade the other side is beyond me - and probably beyond them as well.

You start then, you crowd sourcing millennial with a woke binge watching Karen as a remoaner friend....

[NotAllThere]

Ah the Ad Hominem attacks starting means you lost then?

No. Sometimes the person arguing is so self-evidently stupid and/or deluded that ad hominem attacks are the only logical approach. You tosser.

[NotAllThere]

I'm not convinced that it meets the definition of genocide. But I am convinced that Russia is guilty of serious war crimes. At the moment the genocide calls are based more on politics than what's happening.

[malvolio]

I know, it's great fun. I comment on recipe, knitting and furries websites (and the Mail natch) about the inherent racism that I find on them, absolutely hilarious some of the replies. I love winding up woke gammon snowflakes

One day I might understand this need for anonymous cliché-spouting nonentities to try and prove they are superior to some other anonymous entity merely because they hold different views on a subject. Why they don't try and hold a constructive argument to persuade the other side is beyond me - and probably beyond them as well.

[darmstadt]

Digging racism out of nothing, the norm today.

I know, it's great fun. I comment on recipe, knitting and furries websites (and the Mail natch) about the inherent racism that I find on them, absolutely hilarious some of the replies. I love winding up woke gammon snowflakes

[xoggoth]

Digging racism out of nothing, the norm today.

[darmstadt]

I see the OP uses a racist slang term in the title, nothing new there then...https://slangdefine.org/m/macaroon-452.html