Organizers of the annual What the Fluff? celebration of Somerville's contribution to the culinary world have moved it from tomorrow, when we're expected to be inundated again, to Sunday - 3 to 7 p.m. in Union Square.
RoadTrip New England watched the Flufferettes dance their fluff off at the annual Fluff festival in Somerville's Union Square today. The festival, of course, honors the homegrown marshamallowy stuff.
Backers of the proposed Official Sandwich of the Commonwealth plan a postcard drive at this Saturday's Fluff Festival in support of state Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein's now annual Fluffernutter bill.
So what was state Rep Kathi Reinstein's initial reaction to the news that her colleagues will consider making Rex Trailer the official state cowboy?
"What about Fluff?" the Revere Democrat tweeted this morning.
Susan Olsen, better known as the youngest one in curls, will headline the annual Fluff festival in Somerville's Union Square this September. Volunteers are needed to help out. Do you have what it takes?
Today was Union Square's annual Fluff Festival, this year celebrating Fluffy whoopie pies (but don't worry: Roving bands of entrepreneurs sold Fluffernutters).
Marshmallow Fluff is essentially candy that spreads like peanut butter. It's an American classic that was born in Somerville, but the new strawberry variety with its bright pink color is frightening. (read entire article by John Stephen Dwyer)
New York transplant is won over to the Fluff side today:
... It reminded me for some reason of Nutella, which I also happened to coincidentally purchase today, in the sense that both the hazelnut spread and the peanut butter/Fluff combo are incredibly smooth, creamy and dreamy, and the marshmallowy vanillaness of the Fluff adds a deeper richness to the already-rich peanut butter.
To put it simply, it's damn good.
Union Square in Somerville hosted its annual What the Fluff festival today in honor of Archibald Query's invention of peanut butter's BFF.
Aaron Cohen wrote every single state rep and senator to ask them how they'd vote on Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein's perpetual motion to annoint the Fluffernutter the Official Sandwich of the Commonwealth. He posts the replies he got, including one from a grumpy Sen. Richard Moore, D-Harrumph:
[W]hat do you think it is about the Fluffernutter that deserves the mantle of Official State Sandwich? If not, why?
I think we've got more pressing issues to consider.How often do you enjoy Fluff, either on a sandwich or in a dessert?
Very rare.
An Act designating the Fluffernutter as the official sandwich of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by Rep. Kathi-Anne Reinstein of Revere, who has been trying to get this vital legislation enacted since 2006, when she got all up in then Sen. Jarrett Barrios's grill after he tried to ban Fluff from school menus.
Sushiesque posts photos from yesterday's Fluff festival in Somerville.
Image used under Creative Commons.
The annual What the Fluff is now scheduled for tomorrow, 4-7 p.m. in Somerville's Union Square.
Sassy Sundry takes a jar of Fluff on a transcontinental flight the better to take photos of the jar enjoying the sights of San Diego.
Jeff Egnaczyk took some photos (like the one above) at today's Fluff Festival in Somerville.
Stephanie Rogers has a write-up and photos. Ezra Ball was there, too. Sassy Sundry has more. Can't get enough? Tony Yang has even more
Today, the Fluff Festival will once again take place in Union Square from 4pm until 7pm. They are celebrating the 90th anniversary of fluff being invented right there in Somerville.
There will be games for everyone, music (Thunderpants Johnson's Hillbilly Orchestra, B for Brontosaurus, Adriel Azure and his Dream Indigo Orchestra, and of course, The Flufferettes aka Thru the Keyhole Burlesque), a cooking contest, and plenty of fluff.
More info can be found here:
www.unionsquaremain.org/committees/Special%20Event...
Aaron Schutzengel posts photos from the What the Fluff festival, including vital shots of kids getting dunked in a kiddie pool of Fluff during a tug of war.
Karrie posts Fluff photos as well, including one of Fluff Boy.
Just in case you've somehow forgotten, tomorrow is the first What the Fluff? day in Somerville's Union Square. From 3 to 7 p.m., celebrate the gooey glop that made Union Square famous - and state Sen. Jarrett Barrios infamous.
Jesse Kanson-Benanav reports that on Sept. 30, Union Square Main Streets will put on a production of "What the Fluff," a
celebration of the genius of Archibald Query who toiled here in Union Square to create Marshmallow Fluff in 1917. In an ironic tribute on September 30 join artists, musical and theatrical performers, inventors, and humorists to pay yummy homage to this great American foodstuff in a madcap festival of science meets nostalgia meets urban landscape. ...
And, yes, of course, Jarrett Barrios has been invited.
Political Intelligence has the scoop: Jarrett Barrios has thrown in the (incredibly sticky and gooey) towel and abandoned his anti-Fluff initiative.
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