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With essentials like GP visits, groceries, petrol and a bag of chips for Friday night footy all increasing in price, Australians are cutting down on their spending or at least telling their parents they are to make them feel better about the whole housing market thing.
Despite years of rampant wage theft, the hospitality industry is feeling the pinch of the cost of living crisis with one segment taking the hardest hit of all; macarons.
Once known as the most mispronounced word of 2010, macarons are an enigmatically textured sweet made in a variety of hit or miss flavours that often look much prettier than they taste.
Due to the laborious nature of their production, macarons have been driven up by the cost of living crisis back when it was Crimea Putin was rubbing his greasy bald fingers on.
Now going for about $7 a pop, macarons are a luxury that can no longer be afforded by whoever the fuck was buying them in the first place.
“I can’t even afford one with Friday coffee anymore,” stated former macaron buyer Whitney, who we interviewed over Zoom and could therefore still have been some sort of AI or robot.
“Yes, I am sure my memories of macarons are real. Stop asking me if I could have implanted memories.”
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