"I'll fight to the death for Fluff"
I couldn't believe it when I heard that quote. Aparently, the woman who made that quote was Kathi-Anne Reinstein, a Massachusetts state representative, and she's referring to the popular Fluffernutter sandwiches.
The whole fluffing thing started when local senator Jarrett Barrios' son was served a Fluffernutter sandwich at school for lunch. He became angry, and wanted to file a proposal to limit schools to serving Fluffernutters only once a week.
Do they have nothing better to fight about in Massachusetts? I mean - honestly! No crime? No infrastructure worries? Just . . . Fluffernutters.
Ms. Reinstein also asserts that she wants Fluffernutters established as the Commonwealth's official sandwich, which leaves Senator Barrios' aide to defend his boss as someone who "loves Fluff as much as the next legislator."
The whole fluffing thing started when local senator Jarrett Barrios' son was served a Fluffernutter sandwich at school for lunch. He became angry, and wanted to file a proposal to limit schools to serving Fluffernutters only once a week.
Do they have nothing better to fight about in Massachusetts? I mean - honestly! No crime? No infrastructure worries? Just . . . Fluffernutters.
Ms. Reinstein also asserts that she wants Fluffernutters established as the Commonwealth's official sandwich, which leaves Senator Barrios' aide to defend his boss as someone who "loves Fluff as much as the next legislator."
posted by Callie | 6/20/2006 05:32:00 PM
16 Comments:
I like fluffers too.
Oh, wait... are we talking about something else?
PLEASE explain to me what a "fluffernutter" is. I've actually never heard of such a thang.
I'm glad motherdear explained that because I also had no idea, though was actually spot on with my guess. They sound disgusting. Lady actually falls under Joe's explaination of fluffer :)
I agree with Calli! What the Sam Hill is an elected offical in MA getting involved in a Fluff or No Fluff issue for? Isn't that what we have PTAs and School Boards for? If this is what they are paid to do then they need to be fired or at least have a pay reduction. Hell just shoot all of them...Pass the Fluff please.
Well, you can keep the fluff. I prefer my peanut butter without any hook-ups (unless it's a good chocolate, or maybe a nice crispy apple).
And yeah - the legislature getting involved in whether or not a school serves a certain type of sandwich stinks of micro-management.
One thing I did learn, however. Fluff is fat-free. It's loaded with sugar, but it's fat free. Some schools in the Mass. area serve them, some don't. There's one school (or district, I can't recall which) that refuses to even serve peanut butter due to the sugar content. Their spokesperson sounded a bit too uppity for my taste, and I could imagine all the dull, lifeless children dressed in grey uniforms eating dull, lifeless food for lunch.
And Joe - you're lucky I know what a fluffer is, or I could have gotten into serious trouble at work pressing that link!!! You sick sick boy . . .
Now my question is answered. I saw this news thing on the train this morning and wondered what the heck a Fluffernutter was.
Its probably not the healthiest thing to be serving to kids at school, particularly with the increase in peanut allergies out there.
However, to quote the bard:
"it is a tale. Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury. Signifying nothing."
Much ado, indeed.
omfg... it's on the news RIGHT NOW! WTFluff?!
oops...that was me posting earlier...
wtfluff!
trix. :P
I knew it was you, Trixie!!!
Ya know politicians have gone too far when....
No comments from Kal about this one?
(I am hiding under my desk in shame).
Okay, a minor rant:
This is the same week the legislature pumped out a spending bill with around $700 million in infrastructure and other expenditures, and is finalizing a budget bill which has in it, among other things, an innovative, frist in the nation, tax package which will provide tax incentives for folks who buy fuel efficient vehicles, not just trendy hybrids (which sometimes get no better mileage than their gas-fueled alternatives) and this is what the media focuses on?
Yes, it's a tasty little story that makes folks look ridiculous, but the Senator in question offered this nugget as an amendment to a bill attempting to address childhood obesity, so it is a legitimate point. And he got ticked off because in his kid's school they offer fluff five days a week as an alternative menu item.
Personally we make our kids lunches four days a week, and let them buy one day as sort of a special treat, and there have been weeks when The Boy has asked for peanut butter and jelly or fluff for all four of those days, but we're not letting him have it. Sounds like the school could've used a little common sense and avoided this whole issue.
Personally, vending machines in schools are more of a problem, I think. But an amendment banning those (which I think someone has proposed) wouldn't get nationwide attention.
Yes Kal - we understand. I'm all for letting the schools only serve them once a week. I was making fun of the lady who made the ridiculous quote. I mean - really! Fighting to the death for fluff is really silly.
And it says something about our school system when we have to legislate healthful lunches. Don't they use their brains?
SPEAKING OF FLUFF AND STUFF..DID YOU HEAR THE ONE ABOUT THE CONGRESS THAT VOTED THEMSELVES A PAY RAISE JUST BEFORE THE WENT HOME THE OTHER DAY AND THE NEXT MORNING KILLED A BILL THAT WOULD RAISE MINIMUM WAGE...WHERE DO WE GET THESE ELECTED, PROFESSIONAL, I'M SMARTER THAN YOU POLITICIANS FROM...? MAYBE WE COULD PUT THEM IN GITMO.
Wow, we need to get them back to debating sandwiches quick or we might go broke!
What an issue! Fluffernutters! Whatever happened to justice and peace, gas prices and unemployment, hunger and homelessness?
no more fluff. I'm stuffed.
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