My beef with the macarons at McDonald's in France
If, as Mike Steinberger writes in "How McDonald's Conquered France", McDonald's France gets its macarons from the company that owns Ladurée, then it shouldn't come as a big surprise that they're pretty good. The gumminess in the ones I tried on a Sunday night probably had more to do with freshness than the quality of the pistachio, lemon, vanilla, raspberry and chocolate macarons. The flavours are true, if not stellar. At 90 cents apiece they are clearly a bargain.
Furthermore, macarons are a natural brand extension for McDonald's. They resemble mini-hamburgers in Technicolor.
My only big disappointment? That McDo (pronounced "mack-doh"), as the fastfood chain is known in France, did not rebrand them as "McCarons"

