France Recoils in Horror at McDonald's Approximation of Fancy Pastry Maureen O'Connor · 03/02/10 01:08AM Starbucks and McDonald's have co-opted macarons, meringue-like cookie sandwiches that shall henceforth be known as Pastry Big Macs. "I saw them at the McCafé on the Champs-Élysées—just down the street from Ladurée! What is the world coming to?!?"