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<p>If you don&#39;t know what the <a href="http://news.google.com/news?client=firefox-a&amp;rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official_s&amp;hl=en&amp;q=fluffernutter&amp;btnG=Google+Search&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;oe=UTF-8&amp;sa=N&amp;tab=wn">deal is with the Fluffernutter</a> it&#39;s a dead giveaway that you a) don&#39;t live in Massachusetts or b) that you, quite possibly, have a life.&#0160; &#0160;

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<p>The short story:&#0160; A local politician was outraged that 3rd graders were getting served Fluffernutters as a school lunch so he proposed that, just maybe, schools should instead be serving foodstuffs that occur in nature or at the very least pretend to be nutritious.&#0160; I personally think that this is a rational position (you can still eat the stuff at home) but the locals went crazy.&#0160; &quot;Save the Fluff!&quot; read the banners, &quot;Keep the Fluffernutter legal!&quot;&#0160; Newspaper columnists wrote 1000 word essays on the topic.&#0160; <br /> </p>

<p>I became interested - how could a simple &quot;sandwich&quot; inspire so much passion from a people as jaded and cynical as the people of the Commonwealth?&#0160; It&#39;s the kind of thing you have to experience for yourself, so I did. </p>

<p><strong>NOTE:&#0160; I&#39;ve thoughtfully provided a video in case you feel you must learn how to make a Fluffernutter.&#0160; Watch at your own risk - I will not be held responsible if you can&#39;t get the irritating jingle out of your head:</strong>
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I made one (with <a href="http://www.teddie.com/peanutbutter.html">Teddie Peanut Butter</a>, even)&#0160; The sandwich, while not technically &quot;food&quot;, was delicious.&#0160; It brought back memories of a childhood spent sneaking into Fenway Park and drinking hot chocolate in front of the fire after shoveling February snow.&#0160; Which makes the sandwich even more impressive because I grew up in the Caribbean and didn&#39;t see snow until I was in graduate school.&#0160; That&#39;s some powerful Fluff.</p>

<p>The stuff is good, but I&#39;ll do my best not to become addicted.&#0160; I don&#39;t trust the Fluff.&#0160; Do you know why?&#0160; The key ingredient in a Fluffernutter, a substance called Marshmallow Fluff, is an unapologetically artificial and retro food product.&#0160; (<a href="http://www.marshmallowfluff.com/pages/history1.html">Hello 1920</a>!)&#0160; The label looks like it hasn&#39;t changed in, oh, 86 years or so, and it comes in a glass jar (like mayonnaise used to!).&#0160; The most alarming part is the ingredient list:</p>

<p>Corn Syrup<br />Sugar<br />Dried Egg White<br />Vanillin</p>

<p>Ugh.&#0160; I can&#39;t believe I ate this stuff.&#0160; And liked it.</p>

<p>I&#39;ll probably need to eat organic vegetables for a year to make up for the damage.&#0160; I don&#39;t think this is what the health nuts mean when they say &quot;<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4312591.stm">Eat Locally</a>&quot;.&#0160; </p>
