‘What the Fluff’

[Little Star]

Fluff aficionados haven’t given up on their campaign to designate Fluffernutter the official state sandwich.

A nonprofit group that organizes the annual ‘‘What the Fluff?’’ festival in Somerville says volunteers will be asking attendees at Saturday’s event to sign postcard petitions to state lawmakers, who are in recess until January.

The 9th annual festival runs from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. It celebrates Marshmallow Fluff, which was invented in 1917 in Somerville’s Union Square neighborhood and is still made in Massachusetts using the same basic ingredients: corn syrup, sugar syrup, dried egg whites and artificial vanilla flavoring.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/2014/09/27/what-the-fluff-festival-revels-local-creation/ddxNHJv73qAwAR2xgOz35L/story.html

Fluffernutter was one of my go to sandwiches when my kids were little. They loved them for lunch. Memories.

edit to add: Fluff in a cup of hot chocolate. Yum!

[2naSalit]

1. Much of my

childhood took place in that neck of the woods. We were kind of poor and my mom wouldn't buy Fluff. All the "well-off" kids ate fluffernutters, sometimes they'd trade but we couldn't have them because the stuff cost too much, according to my mom. But I sure did love to have a fluffernutter once in a while when I grew up. Now I can't eat that kind of stuff and peanut butter has long ago fallen off my list of menu items too.

I don't even know if they sell that stuff out in this part of the Rockies.

Memories indeed.

[YankeyMCC]

2. Once when I was invited over for dinner while in England

I explained Fluff to my co-worker's children.

They were completely grossed out.

Much to my confusion.

[pipi_k]

3. I guess it's one of those things

You had to be introduced to in childhood to develop a taste for it rather than think it's gross. It's one of the things a sister of mine said she missed the most when she moved to Florida years ago. She couldn't find it anywhere down there. Now she's back up here and presumably pigging out on it frequently

At 61 years old myself I still love me some Fluffernutters

[merrily]

4. I hope the Mass legis. doesn't choose known carcinogens as ingredients

for a state sandwich.

In hot chocolate, I like whipped organic cream without carrageenan (a known carcinogen)--if you can find it. And, if you are a perfectionist, try frozen dollops of whipped organic cream.

[merrily]

5. P.S. I love "what the fluff."

When I want to use the four letter f word, but can't, I will use "fluff."