Fluffernutter: Treat or Threat?
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To all those state legislators who have ever neglected weighty issues in favor of fluff, the politicians of Massachusetts have now done you one better. They spent last week debating the merits of Fluff, with a capital "F" -- the marshmallow cream that many New Englanders consider the ideal accompaniment to peanut butter.
"Fluffergate," as one pol named it, began when the son of state Sen. Jarrett T. Barrios (D) reported that his elementary school in Cambridge gave students the option of eating Fluffernutter sandwiches for lunch. A Fluffernutter is, of course, made with peanut butter and Fluff -- an amalgam of corn syrup, sugar syrup, vanilla flavor and egg whites.
Fearing for the nutrition of school lunches, Barrios proposed a measure that would limit schools to one Fluffernutter day per week. That brought complaints from the Lynn, Mass., company that makes Fluff, which says its product is far more healthful than it might seem, given that it is marshmallow goo. Fluff has just 60 calories per serving, they say.
As a form of protest against Barrios's proposal, state Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein (D) suggested naming the Fluffernutter the state's official sandwich.
"With everything going on in the world, we're going down the Fluff road. . . . It's just nuts," Reinstein said.
-- David A. Fahrenthold
