Fluffernutter

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A fluffernutter is a sandwich made with peanut butter and marshmallow creme which is usually served with white bread. Variations of sandwiches include substitution of whole wheat bread and the addition of various sweet, salty, and savory ingredients. The term can also be used to describe other foods, especially desserts, which combine peanut butter and marshmallow creme.

Sandwiches were first made in the early 20th century after a marshmallow creme, a kind of sweet marshmallow, found in Rhode Island. During World War I, a recipe for peanut butter and creme marshmallow sandwich, the earliest example of a sandwich, was published. The term "fluffernutter" was created by an advertising agency in the 1960s as a more effective way to market a sandwich.

This sandwich is very popular in New England and has been proposed as an official sandwich of the state of Massachusetts.

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Resep dan variasi

A fluffernutter is made by spreading peanut butter on a piece of bread, then spreading the same amount of creme marshmallows on the other slices and finally combining them to form a sandwich. Variations of recipes include wholemeal wholemeal bread, Nutella hazelnuts spread instead of or in addition to peanut butter, and the addition of sweet ingredients such as bananas or salty and savory ingredients such as bacon. The Fluffernutter itself is often seen as a variation on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Although often seen as food for children, Fluffernutter recipes have been adapted to appeal to adults. For example, a New York caterer serves an Fluffernutter appetizer in a baked ice-cream cone with a spoon of peanut butter and marshmallow crumbs on it.

The term fluffernutter has also been used to describe other foods that serve peanut butter and marshmallow creme, including Fluffernutter cakes, bars, and cupcakes. Durkee-Mower, the company that produces Marshmallow Fluff, a marshmallow creme brand, produces a cookbook that serves recipes for fluffernutter bars, frosting, pies and shakes. In 2006, Brigham's Ice Cream and Durkee-Mower introduced a Fluffernutter flavor, featuring peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff in vanilla ice cream. Fluffernutter is also a name of sweets produced briefly by the candy company Boyer Brothers beginning in 1969.

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History

Marshmallow creme, one of the two main ingredients of Fluffernutter, was discovered in the early 20th century. Archibald Query discovered a creation he called Marshmallow Creme in Somerville, Massachusetts, in 1917, while Amory and Emma Curtis of Melrose, Massachusetts, discovered Snowflake Marshmallow Creme in 1913. During World War I, Emma Curtis published a recipe for Liberty Sandwich , which consists of peanut butter and Snowflake Marshmallow Creme on wheat bread or barley. The recipe was published in a promotional leaflet sent to Curtis customers in 1918 and probably the origin of the Fluffernutter sandwich. Label and booklet published by Curtises suggest to combine Snow Flake Marshmallow Creme with peanut butter or eat it with a sandwich with chunks of peanuts or olives.

Meanwhile, the lack of sugar during World War I costed Archibald Query Marshmallow Creme sales, so Query sold the recipe in 1920 to two people from Swampscott, Massachusetts, H. Allen Durkee and Fred L. Mower, who began distributing products through their company, Durkee-Mower Inc. The couple changed the Toot Sweet Marshmallow Fluff product name, and Durkee-Mower continued to sell the product under the name Marshmallow Fluff. Sandwiches made with peanut butter and marshmallow creme continued to be eaten, but were not called Fluffernutter until 1960, when a rented Durkee-Mower advertising firm coined the term as a more effective way to market sandwiches. Fluffernutter is a registered trademark of Durkee-Mower, although the US trademark registration for that term only includes ice cream recipes and prints. In 2006, Durkee-Mower sued Williams-Sonoma Inc. in the United States District Court for the District of Massachusetts, alleging that Williams-Sonoma violated its trademark by selling marshmallows and chocolate candy peanut butter under the name Fluffernutter .

In June 2006, Massachusetts State Senator Jarrett Barrios received national attention when he passed a law limiting the provision of Fluffernutter sandwiches in public schools. After Barrios learned that his son served Fluffernutters daily at Cambridge, Massachusetts, a public elementary school, he made amendments to junk food bills aimed at limiting the portion of Fluffernutters in Massachusetts public schools to once a week. The proposal was criticized as an example of trivial and overly intrusive legislation, while Barrios supporters pointed to concerns about childhood obesity. Among those who defended Fluffernutter at the time was the Massachusetts State Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein, whose district in Revere was close to Lynn, where Marshmallow Fluff was made. He claims that he plans to "fight to death for Fluff" and support the legislation that will make Fluffernutter the official state sandwich. The measure failed, and Reinstein tried again to fail in 2009. Proponents of the bill cited the close relationship of sandwiches with childhood and Massachusetts.

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In culture

The term is sometimes used underestimation to describe something that has no substance and has minimal or no cultural value. On the other hand, some authors see Fluffernutters and marshmallow creme as a source of childhood nostalgia and regional pride.

This sandwich has a close relationship with New England, especially to Somerville, where Archibald Query invents Marshmallow Fluff, and into Lynn, where Durkee-Mower has been producing it for decades. Somerville held an annual festival called What the Fluff? based around celebrating Marshmallow Fluff and Fluffernutter sandwiches. The festival combines music, visual arts, games and cooking contests based around Fluff and Fluffernutters. In 2011, NASA astronaut Richard Michael Linnehan, who was born in Lowell, and ate Fluffernutter while at the International Space Station, acted as one of the contest jurors.

October 8 is National Fluffernutter Day.

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See also

• Convenient food
• New England Cuisine
• List of USA regional dishes
• List of sandwiches
• List of peanut dishes

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References

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External links

• The Union Square Fluff Festival website
• "Behind the Marshmallow Curtain: A Look Inside Lynn's Marshmallow Fluff Factory" - Boston Magazine, September 2014

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