Well, at least when they're arguing about this stuff, they're not doing any real damage:
A Fluffernutter war has begun in the Massachusetts Legislature.
Countering a state senator's attempt to limit servings of Marshmallow Fluff in schools, a state representative said yesterday she would file her own bill to make the Fluffernutter the state's official sandwich. A Fluffernutter is a peanut butter and Fluff sandwich.
State Representative Kathi-Anne Reinstein said Senator Jarrett T. Barrios has taken a ridiculous tack by going after the popular gooey snack. Marshmallow Fluff was invented by a Massachusetts man and is still produced in Lynn, part of Reinstein's district.
Barrios, outraged that his son was served a Fluffernutter for lunch at his Cambridge elementary school, proposed an amendment to a junk food bill, calling for limiting the serving of Fluff to once a week in schools statewide.
``I'm protective of Fluff; I grew up on it," said Reinstein, a Democrat. ``But it's insane that we're having this conversation."
All the more reason to get government out of the education delivery business. Let each parent impose their own irrational choices on their own kids. :-D
Posted by: Alan Brown | June 22, 2006 at 12:35 AM