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What the Fluff!!!

Guess what I'm dong tomorrow?:biggrin:

Somerville celebrated the original creation of Fluff with a festival in Union Square titled What the Fluff? that included a science fair, gallery show and cooking contest, all oriented around Marshmallow Fluff.

Marshmallow creme is an American food item. It is a very sweet, spreadable, marshmallow-like confection. Marshmallow creme and peanut butter are used to create a :w00t:Fluffernutter:w00t: sandwich:w00t:. In addition, marshmallow creme and Nutella can be spread on graham crackers to emulate smores.
One popular brand of marshmallow creme, sold principally in the Northeastern United States, is Marshmallow Fluff. It is also available in many north European supermarkets (e.g., Scandinavia, UK, Germany) in standard and strawberry flavour. Its ingredients consist only of corn syrup, sugar syrup, vanilla flavor, and egg whites.Ricemellow Creme, manufactured by Suzanne's Specialties, Inc., is a common vegan equivalent.

Around the beginning of the 20th century, Somerville, Massachusetts, resident and inventor of the product Archibald Query started selling his version door-to-door. He soon afterward sold the recipe to two candymakers in Lynn, Massachusetts, H. Allen Durkee and Fred Mower, for $500. The product first hit supermarket shelves in cans as Toot Sweet Marshmallow Fluff in 1917. The first two words were dropped soon after, and the packaging was switched to a glass jar in the 1940s. Today, the Durkee-Mower company is one of only three companies in North America to produce marshmallow creme, the others being Kraft Jet-Puffed Marshmallow Creme and Solo Marshmallow Creme.
 
Great stuff! I grew up in Massachusetts.

The one caveat for fluffernutters: If you make the sandwich in the morning and pack it for lunch, store it horizontally; otherwise the fluff tends to exit the sandwich due to gravity (and it's difficult to clean off of your hands).

- Chris
 
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