After biting into what felt like a billion macarons, I’m not too sure when I’ll be able to eat another one again. 5 of us crazy lunatics united in celebration of Adriano’s Birthday and his once off macaron madness. There steph, lisa, karen, shaun and I devoured a whole box in 1.5hours!
All sugared up and jittery from the sugar shock our bodies had consumed, my tongue and mouth were swollen that my appetite disappeared for approximately 1½ days. As crazy as it sounds, it was totally worth it and a achievement on trying almost every flavour 
Warning: many many photos…you’ll be scrolling a lot
If macrons were preservable…
I would display it on my shelf and stare at it forever. After eating these, we discovered there were some flavours missing *sigh* =( For more information about what flavours were available, visit - Grab Your Fork for the full list.
I heart you..
When we first started eating the macarons, our bite sizes were a good decent size. After the first 10 our bites began to get smaller, and smaller and smaller.
I absolutely loved the following macaron flavours:
cream Bun / finger bun, chupa-chup, burnt butter amd burnt toast, rosemary and olive, rice pudding, chocolate passionfruit , peanut butter, cheesecake, popcorn (as always), vegemite, goats cheese and blueberry, chocolate & red wine and iced vovo.
Store turns into a macaron fiesta!
For this special occasion, people joined the queue for macarons, some already deciding on which flavours they wanted and some were overwhelmed with the variety and suggested “give me some random macarons and surprise me”.
The polished proof
After hoeing into soo many it was off to fix the craving for something dirty and super salty - hot chips and gravy *boom-chika-wow-wow*
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5:21 pm on November 12th, 2009
Crazy indeed! I was really intrigued by the fig macarons and their unique tear-drop shape. The colour was amazing too.
My favourites included the burnt toast and butter and the cheeseburger. I really got into the Vegemite one too. And ahh yes popcorn! Always a winner!
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10:30 pm on November 12th, 2009
You lucky guys (and gals)! One-and-a-half-hours for a box is pretty good going, since you need to appreciate each and every flavour! LOL. Amazing.
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11:31 pm on November 12th, 2009
Man.. talk about overload! But it’s all good..
Initallly I was disappointed about not being able to make it on the day but decided to go the following day just incase there might be some left and to my surprise there was a truck full of macarons outside the store! YAY! So I managed to get 20 for myself and some for the boy – I got the beer one for him and he said it was surprisingly decent.
We are so lucky!
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11:46 pm on November 12th, 2009
Hahaha jinx! Am I the only one who thinks we both had this post scheduled for the same night that we both happened to be out having dinner together? I’m so glad you managed to come take part in the macaron madness
Go us!
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November 12th, 2009, 11:52 pm
holy shit! your home already?!?!?!?!?!? some reason I thought youd get home at 12:30! -
GO US!!! We’re the GO TEAM GO! trust us nutters to be greedy like tonights icecream incident – dont know why we got 2 scoops, I couldnt even finish the darn thing and we pretty much got the same flavour LOL!!!
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November 13th, 2009, 12:01 am
haha oops I just realised i missed out a whole bit of my sentence – I meant to say ‘Am I the only who thinks it’s freaky…”- that proves I’ve had WAY too much sugar and 2 scoops was def a bad idea! We crazy!
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12:03 am on November 13th, 2009
I still cant believe how many you all ate. The fig mac is a wicked colour.
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1:26 am on November 13th, 2009
Hahaha oh you two (I mean you and Steph). So glad you could join us for this! Can’t wait for many more crazy adventures with you lot
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9:58 am on November 13th, 2009
Fab photos! Was it a bit of a sugar overdose?
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11:35 am on November 13th, 2009
Haha, I like the photo of the empty box. You should have included one of you lot in line at the dentist, too!
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6:11 pm on November 13th, 2009
You girls are hardcore-I love it!
Gorgeous photos too Leona!
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6:37 pm on November 13th, 2009
Well done
Hee hee sugar high for allll!! (esp Steph 
)
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1:20 am on November 14th, 2009
yummo. so you actually tried one of everything? how much were they? :-)
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5:22 pm on November 16th, 2009
“crazy” isn’t enough to describe you guys I reckon! LOL
Ohh so many other flavours I didn’t try! Awesome post with lots of macaron love
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4:51 pm on November 18th, 2009
Your photos are gorgeous! How on earth did you get the macarons to stand up? Mine always fall down and I’m scared they will break. You tried so many flavours, what fun it would have been.
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12:04 am on November 24th, 2009
just want to say you guys do such fantastic food photography. it’s inspiring!
cheers
jon
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5:26 pm on March 14th, 2010
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