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  • "Fluff" flies in school lunch debate

    06/24/2006 8:57:05 AM PDT · by sully777 · 125 replies · 1,333+ views
    Reuters ^ | Thu Jun 22, 2006 5:16pm ET | By Scott Malone
    BOSTON (Reuters) - When it comes to food, Boston is best known for baked beans and clam chowder. But this week, state legislators have engaged in robust debate on Marshmallow Fluff -- a locally made, sugary spread. State Sen. Jarrett Barrios started the tempest in a lunch box when he learned that his son's Cambridge grammar school cafeteria offered Fluff-and-peanut butter sandwiches daily. In a nation where child obesity rates have more than doubled in the past 25 years, Barrios fretted that was not a healthy option. Monday he proposed a law that would allow schools to serve the "Fluffernutters"...