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Massachusetts Legislature in Fluffernutter Flap

Discussion in 'Fred's House of Pancakes' started by Tempus, Jun 21, 2006.

  1. Tempus

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    Fluffernutter Sandwich Angers Mass. Senator

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    Sen. Jarrett Barrios was outraged that his son Nathaniel, a third-grader, was given a Fluffernutter sandwich at the King Open School in Cambridge. He said he plans to file legislation that would ban schools from offering the local delicacy more than once a week as the main meal of the day.

    Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein, a Democrat whose district in Revere is near the company that has produced the marshmallow concoction for more than 80 years, Durkee-Mower Inc. ... responded with a proposal to designate the Fluffernutter the "official sandwich of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts."

    "I'm going to fight to the death for Fluff," Reinstein said.

    An aide to Barrios insisted the senator is not anti-Fluff
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE("the article")</div>
    I wonder if grape jelly, the traditional alternate to Fluffernutter, is really all that more nutritious.
     
    #2 Marlin, Jun 21, 2006
  3. TonyPSchaefer

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    I really think that a little thinking on his part would have generated a bill stating something to the affect of "no more than XX grams of fat per article of food." Or perhaps, "a combined meal total not to exceed XX grams of fat."

    It's just silly to attack one food when a better-worded bill would have taken out a whole slew at once.
     
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    That explain's a lot about how f'd up our country is? Let parents worry about what their kids eat.

    Granted, he's a parent and worried about it, but he doesn't need to waste tax payers money trying to pass a bill to make himself feel better when other parents may not care, or may just tell their kids what to eat/not eat.
     
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    <div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(TonyPSchaefer @ Jun 21 2006, 05:39 PM) [snapback]274875[/snapback]</div>
    Except we're not talking dietary fat here (which, unless it's transfats or other refined and processed oils, is NOT even the problem), we're talking about a product that is completely nutritionless refined sugar. Same reason sodas are getting banned in schools.

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    You're right. At least it's partly made of fruit, although the cheap bulk commercial stuff that they use in schools really doesn't have much fruit in in it anyway and is almost as much refined sugar as the Fluff. Nutritionally, neither one is any better than candy.
     
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    If not for the fluffernutter I would not have grown to adulthood. Fluff doesn't penetrate into the bread as easily as jelly so it generally stays better for the long morning periods in class. Of course my generation was also far more active in general than the current crop of kids so being heavy at a young age was comparatively rare.
     
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