Fluff

Now that lawmakers on Beacon Hill have tackled universal health care, they’ve decided to move on to the next most pressing issue: Fluff.

Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein (D, Revere) has filed a bill in the House to designate “Fluffernutter”—a mixture of Marshmallow fluff and peanut butter—as the official sandwich of Massachusetts. This was in response to Senator Jarrett Barrios’ proposed legislation that would allow Fluffernutter sandwiches to be served in public schools only once a week.

How often were they serving it? And does Massachusetts really need an official sandwich? Maybe now that Massachusetts has legalized same-sex marriage, we should have an official lube too. I vote for KY Brand Warming Liquid!

I like fluff as much as the next guy—after all, I did grow up in Lynn, where it continues to be produced—though I admit, every time I hear the word “fluff,” I think of the 2003 film (The Fluffer) by Richard Glatzer and Wash West about the gay adult film industry and the behind-the-scenes… er, work of one crew member, “the fluffer,” whose job it was to keep the male actors… well… “fluffed” (if you don’t know what that means, just watch the film).

But as much fun as that sounds, it does qualify as work. The boy in that film worked… hard. That’s more than I can say for Reinstein and Barrios who are wasting our tax dollars with this nonsense.