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Our tax dollars at work. The war on Fluffernutter escalates in Legislature. The Boston Globe, 6/22/06 A Fluffernutter war has begun in the Massachusetts Legislature. Countering a state senator's attempt to limit servings of Marshmallow Fluff in schools, a state representative said yesterday she would file her own bill to make the Fluffernutter the state's official sandwich. Read more, if you're so inclined. It's kind of like driving past a bad car accident and you just have to look, despite yourself. Gah.

-------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: Shirky COMMENT-DATE:11:21 AM COMMENT-BODY:imagine a car crash where a truck of fluff spilled...mmmmm....hazardlicious. -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: Anonymous COMMENT-DATE:11:26 AM COMMENT-BODY:I have two questions:

1. Since when do they server marshmallow fluff in schools??? Not where I'm from, kids.

2. Why does anyone care? -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: FemiKnitMafia COMMENT-DATE:1:00 PM COMMENT-BODY:Good lord. I'm all for healthy foods in the schools, so let's ban all sorts of crap that's served/provided. But someone actually suggested a state sandwich? File under: are you effing kidding me? -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: J COMMENT-DATE:1:13 PM COMMENT-BODY:It's been hard to avoid this "news" if you live in New England.

My (queer) lawyer for the state friend says that the guy who introduced the ban is a gay parent who is trying to prove that gay parents care about their kids.

He's going about it a weird weird way.

This is so not news.

But boy do I want a fluffernutter right now! -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: Anonymous COMMENT-DATE:2:33 PM COMMENT-BODY:Yeah, Barrios is a gay parent but can't he just call the school and yell at them? That's what my mom always did. Just because you're a legislator doesn't mean you have to make a law about fluff. For Pete's sake.

Besides, doesn't the school have to provide a lunch menu? So shouldn't you know ahead of time that they're going to serve your kid fluff and then you can prevent it from happening? Just an idea. But the whole thing is insanity. -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: Lo COMMENT-DATE:10:12 PM COMMENT-BODY:I grew up in the The War on Fluff state (among other places) and I freely admit being served the occasional Fluffernutter at school. Sometimes if you said you didn't want the hot lunch and you wanted peanut butter....they had a Flufernutter for you.
Here, my friends, is the real issue: to this day my parents do not know about this. They were not really Fluff kind of people. The kid should have kept his mouth shut. :-) -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: susan COMMENT-DATE:10:30 PM COMMENT-BODY:Hmmm....so there are a few downsides to living where you do, even if you can be legally married and I can't.

I do remember reading quite a nice article in Yankee magazine a few years ago about some elementary school class' (successful) effort to get Boston Cream Pie declared the state's official dessert. But that was a far less contentious effort. -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: Hashbrown COMMENT-DATE:5:28 AM COMMENT-BODY:Good Lord, isn't there something Barrios could be legislating on that is more imperative, like homelessness, or the MBTA's upcoming price hike, or raising minimum wage? Come on, he is a smart man, or was until this happened. He looks now like a doof. Like Jenny said, why doesn't he bring this up with the school or at the PTA meeting? -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: M. COMMENT-DATE:7:12 AM COMMENT-BODY:Wait - lo: there's actually a War on Fluff STATE? -------- COMMENT-AUTHOR: Lo COMMENT-DATE:1:39 PM COMMENT-BODY:Sorry, M., no, I just meant that I lived in Mass. for a time. --------