Fluffernutter afficianados were in a near frenzy this past week. Do you know what Fluff is? It’s a kind of marshmallow goo. Take a ton of it, along with bit of peanut butter and some bread, and you have what may be the only sandwich to survive unscathed* by the fall: a fluffernutter. Nothing like it!

(*Only true IF you use crunchy peanut-butter.)

Well, the marshmallow mourning almost came about when a particular Massachusetts legislator threatened to slash the fluffernutter rations of Bay State schoolchildren. According to the Washington Post, Senator Jarrett Barrios got whipped up over the (alleged!) lack of nutrition in fluffernutters; he proposed a change to the Massachusetts school nutrition bill that would only allow kids to get one fluffer a week.

Thankfully, Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein and others came to the defense of the humble fluffernutter, and saved it from an untimely demise. Reinstein even proposed making the fluffernutter the state sandwich of Massachusetts. We’re all eagerly waiting to see if this will make it.

Good news: the Post reports Barrios has dropped this amendment to Massachusetts’ school nutrition bill: the fluffernutter will continue to sustain Massachusetts schoolkids every day.

Check out the Fluffernutter website. I think you’ll particularly like the TV ad with the catchy song.

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