They look like sandwich biscuits but are meringue, not biscuit. They are crunchy like biscuits though. I've been thinking about this way too much. Thoughts?
Meringue of made from eggs, so this is a breakfast sandwich.
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if you ask the French, a biscuit is a kind of gâteau (cake) and mostly refer to dry biscuits. The etymology of Biscuit (bi = two, cuit = cooked), means that it would spend twice longer in the oven, hence its dryness. So, macarons are cakes, not biscuits, because they are not dry. BUT! there are many kinds of macarons and some more traditional are actually quite dry (example here: https://www.macaron-de-nancy.com/fr/92-le-macaron). So it depends which ones you're thinking of.
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Think this: in Ukrainian we call pasta -- macarony.
Macaroni was the most common word for pasta in English too (at least in American English) for a long time after its introduction from Italy.
That and macaroon/macaron seem to both come from the same Italian source, per Etymonlone, which calls macaroons cakes: https://www.etymonline.com/word/macaroon