Help me settle a debate! Fluffernutter - a New England delicacy, or likely to be found anywhere?

[MANative]

I'm confident that any New Englander (especially those of us of a certain age) will know what makes a Fluffernutter, so I'm especially interested in hearing from fellow DUers outside of the six NE states. Do you know what it is? Have you ever had one?

[City Lights]

1. I grew up in Chicago and ate many fluffernutters as a child.

Loved them!

[MANative]

2. Thank you!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

133. Same here. I'm pretty sure there were fluffernutter TV commercials in Chicago in the 60's.

[ScreamingMeemie]

3. Born in Wisconsin--had them there. Moved to North Carolina, and there was a

restaurant that had them on its menu. Moved to Syracuse, same thing... and taught my Michigander kids to love them as well.

[MANative]

6. On a restaurant menu? How cool is that!?

[joeybee12]

4. First you spread, spread, spread, your bread with peanut butter...nt

[MANative]

11. And then the sticky stuff goes on the other slice!

[joeybee12]

16. Add marshmallow fluff and that's a fluffernutter!

Remember the song?

[MANative]

59. I do! Wow - that's a blast from the past! :)

[valerief]

5. I grew up on fluffernutters but I'm from Mass. I LOVE marshmallow fluff.

But who doesn't?

[MANative]

12. Love the fluff, but passionate about...

the peanut butter!

[valerief]

14. I've transitioned into an almond butter gal myself. nt

[MANative]

60. That's great stuff. I also love cashew butter. yummmmm. n/t

[Mariana]

136. Even better than a fluffernutter...

is a big spoonful of Fluff in cocoa. Oh, is that good.

[guillaumeb]

7. is that a pornographic term?

Just kidding. Glad my mother never made us eat something like that up north. Marshmallow CANNOT be a food. Looks more like spray insulation without the good taste of insulation.

[MANative]

13. I suppose it depends on who's using it on what!

[jberryhill]

8. It was originally found and mined in New Hampshire

Alfred F. Nutter discovered the first commercially valuable deposits of it in 1869 while prospecting for granite deposits in a marsh north of Portsmouth. It was originally burned as a substitute fuel for whale oil.

A New England Fluffernutter mine, circa 1901:



During WWII, the Germans devised a method of synthesizing it from alfalfa oil.

Since depletion of many of the Fluffernutter mines in New England, much of it is now mined and imported from Argentina and supplemented with alfalfa oil-derived synthetic Fluffernutter.

[MANative]

15. Your knowledge far surpasses my own, friend! I bow to your superiority!

[jberryhill]

152. Just kidding - George Washington Carver invented it

...and it is made from peanuts.

[MANative]

154. LOL ;)

[Marrah_G]

9. omg fluffanutters- made with real fluff :)

My uncle moved to Michigan many decades ago and my mother would send him fluff because they didn't sell the real fluff there.

Add jelly and then it's a rainbow sandwich

[MANative]

18. My mother would buy the...

peanut butter that had the jelly swirled through it. It was the perfect Saturday lunch when all the errands had to be done.

[tammywammy]

10. Texas - never had one.

First heard about them a few years ago, but doesn't sound appealing.

[closeupready]

17. What about peanut butter/banana sandwiches? Those are good -

seems like you could make an edible sweet/savory (peanut butter) sandwich out of just about anything.

[MANative]

23. My dad would do that and add bacon.

I never quite understood that, but he loved 'em!

[closeupready]

39. Bacon for texture, I suppose - and flavor of course, hehe.

Bacon is crack, lol.

[MANative]

61. He would put bacon on just about anything! LOL

[Mariana]

138. My mom made peanut butter and bacon sandwiches.

Good stuff.

[guillaumeb]

24. my recipe

I eat this nearly every day for breakfast.
Toast some bread. spread thinly with peanut butter. Put on a few raisins. Slice strawberries on top. Slice a banana and add. Top with the second slice of bread and peanut butter.
Eat. Protein, potassium, carbs, fiber, and good taste.

[closeupready]

41. yes, filling and nutritious and cheap - how can you go wrong.

[tammywammy]

29. Oh yes.

Peanut butter with honey is also yum yum.

[MANative]

21. I imagine that if I were to have one for the first time now, I'd probably hate it.

It's the nostalgia of it that's even remotely appealing today.

[MADem]

19. When I lived in Europe in the early sixties, we waited anxiously for the packages

from America that contained the requisite ingredients for this rarest of delicacies. We "Europeanized" the recipe by putting the sandwich ingredients on breadsticks!

[MANative]

26. How cosmopolitan! I love the idea! ;) nt

[smokey nj]

20. I'm from NJ and had Fluffernutters as a child. My husband did too and he was born and raised in

NYC.

[MANative]

31. Ah, NE neighbors!

The conclusion seems apparent that a good swath of the country indulged in this little treat.

[thecrow]

98. Me too!

I grew up along the Jersey shore and we had fluffernutters on a regular basis.

[lpbk2713]

22. We always had Marshmallow Fluff in the house.

If we didn't use it on sandwiches we put it on top of a mug of hot chocolate.

Born in Boston, grew up in Hingham.

[MANative]

34. From the south coast...

We put it in hot chocolate, too!

[bottomofthehill]

101. We loved going to the July 4th parade in Hingham as a kid

Then we would go to Nantasket beach for the day and ride some rides in the early evening. It is a fond memory. thanks for making me think of it.

[lpbk2713]

105. They used to have a bonfire on a small island in the harbor.

I'm sure that was discontinued long ago.

We would spend the first part of the day swimming at Nantasket
and the later part of the day at Paragon Park. Good times.

[Ineeda]

140. Paragon Park...

my great aunt Nonie ran the carousel for decades. Great memories as a little kid and even better ones as a teenager. That Tunnel of Love hid many secrets (relatively innocent, of course!) I was always too scared to go on the seemingly rickety wooden roller coaster, though. You can Google Paragon Park and see great images.
Sorry for the O.T. But yes, fluffernutters are still a nostalgic treat and a big dollop of Fluff melted into hot chocolate -- yum.

[Beaverhausen]

25. From Philly suburbs. Oh yes, loved them

[MANative]

127. And I love Philly cheesesteaks even better than fluffernutters!

Also a rare treat, though.

[Freddie]

155. Philly burbs here too

Ate fluffernutters (must be on squishy white bread!) and its variant, grape jelly and fluff (no PB). Tastes like a jelly donut.

[In_The_Wind]

27. I ate Fluff on peanut butter sandwiches as a child while growing up in Georgia.

[MANative]

37. Spent part of my childhood in GA while Dad was in the service. I remember the fluff...

being difficult to find. My grandparents would ship it to us from MA.

[In_The_Wind]

50. I lived in the suburbs of Atlanta. We weren't totally out in the sticks.

However I don't remember eating pizza until I moved to New Jersey in '69.
There must be a glitch in my memory.


Aunt Betty loved going to the PTA meetings and trying new stuff for my cousins, Marsha and Melanie. She was a cool old lady (who wasn't old at all). She was the one who introduced me to Fluff.

[MANative]

56. Aunt Betty was a rock star, then!

New culinary delights are always a joy, and I know that I always remember where I tried new things and who pushed me to it. Like the first time I had calamari. Fortunately, the second (and subsequent) experiences were far better!

[Freddie]

157. "No! That's not onion rings!" Nt

[MANative]

159. LOL - The most overcooked, rubbery excuse for the delicacy ever, that 1st time!

Happily, every other time I've had them, they've been wonderful. But I do love onion rings, too, as a treat once in a while.

[csziggy]

102. I grew up in Central Florida and the only pizza came out of a box

Not a pre-made pizza but a kit - maybe the Chef Boyardee Pizza Maker Kit just like this:

Usually we'd make two - one with pepperoni and another with anchovies.

I didn't get restaurant pizza until after I'd gone off to college and that was mostly Domino's since a roommate worked there and could get it at a discount. Many here would say I've never had real pizza since I've never had any of the well known regional varieties!

[In_The_Wind]

108. Whew! That really makes me feel better.

[csziggy]

112. Add to that - I never heard of a bagel until I went to college!

The student union at Florida Presbyterian College had bagels, but no cream cheese, just butter. For "fancier" bagels, we'd take the bus to Wolfie's in St. Pete (http://restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com/2011/03/27/famous-in-its-day-wolfies/) where they had authentic New York Jewish food and I was introduced to bagels, cream cheese and lox as well as pastrami.

On the other hand we had Alabama and Michigan traditional foods at home - my Michigan raised paternal grandmother taught my Alabama raised mother how to cook some of Dad's favorite foods, including Cornish pasties. Mom needed no instruction in how to cook excellent fried chicken or pecan pies, though.

[bravenak]

28. Never heard of it.

Is it like that nasty marshmallow stuff in a jar? Eeww.

[karynnj]

33. That and bread and peanut butter were the ingredients nt

[MANative]

40. Mostly a kids' treat.

Classic was white bread, creamy peanut butter spread on one slice, then marshmallow fluff on the other. Put them together. Creativity points for using chunky peanut butter or adding jelly or bananas.

[bravenak]

52. Maybe my kids might like it.

[MANative]

63. They certainly might! Just have to make sure the proportion of fluff to...

peanut butter is pretty equal. That's what makes it a delicacy!

[bravenak]

72. You funny!

My husband is partial to marshmallows. I'll try it on him first.

[zappaman]

30. I grew up in Maryland.

And we ate it!

[MANative]

43. I hope you enjoyed it! :)

[karynnj]

32. Very common in 1950/1960 Chicago area - Northern Indiana

It might be generational - as I don't think "the cousins" as we refer to the offspring of my siblings and me ever had them. Fluff had commercials - and a fluffernutter was up their with using it to make fudge. I have NOT seen them for decades and have lived my adult life in NY/NJ and now VT.

[MANative]

45. I think you're right about the generational thing, too.

I know that some of my younger cousins aren't familiar, but several of them have nut allergies, so that would be a factor.

[SteveG]

35. From DE

Very popular here, and has been for at least 60 years.

[MANative]

47. Still? We find the fluff in CT, but not widely. :)

[truebluegreen]

36. Ate them as a child in Colorado (50s/60s)....

but Dad was from Quincy MA!

[MANative]

48. Those MA traditions die hard, don't they?

[truebluegreen]

106. They do.

I remember a linguistics professor in college having trouble categorizing my accent with its elements of intermountain west and New England.

[Cleita]

38. No.

[MANative]

49. Okey dokey!

[Brother Buzz]

42. My son, a sixth generation Californian knows....

Apparently he learned all about it from his mom, a displaced 12th generation New Englander. I'm still trying to wrap my head around a cabinet, a name my son uses for what I call a milkshake. I believe I've lost the cultural war in my household.

[MANative]

51. Cabinet is a totally Rhode Island thing, I think.

I grew up only 20 miles from Providence (and went to college there), but never heard the term at home in MA. I remember someone explaining the origin of the term to me back in the day, but I can't recall it now if my life depended on it!

[Brother Buzz]

73. 'She who Must be Obeyed' occasionally summered in Jamestown

[TexasProgresive]

44. I'd eat one but cut the fluffer

Don't like marshmallow in any form- never did never will. As to your question never heard of them in Texas and my Connecticut inlaws and my wife don't seem familiar.

[MANative]

54. Fluff is a love it/hate it thing, I think.

It's the only form of marshmallow that I will eat, and it's pretty rare that I do. Once in a blue moon, though...

[TexasProgresive]

129. 2 things l like that are a love/hate thing are

licorice and Scotch. I don't eat true licorice much because it can raise blood pressure and Scotch because it's just too pricey for me. Besides I have diabetes and it is good that I avoid sugar and alcohol.

[MANative]

131. Have to agree with you on those two items.

I do love licorice, but it's not exactly healthy, so I avoid it. Never developed a taste for any of the amber liquors. I've tried a sip now and then to see if my tastes have changed, but... yuck... every time!

[TexasProgresive]

132. I can remember as a child hearing that Scotch is an aquired taste.

I disagree completely, either one likes it or one does not. The first time I tasted Scotch I liked it. And liking licorce was great as a child because I got all the black beans and the white ones for whatever brand that was that the white ones were licorice.

[Beaverhausen]

46. just found a recipe to make your own fluff

this looks yummy!

http://whatscookingamerica.net/Candy/MarshmallowFluff.htm

[MANative]

66. Probably a lot better-tasting than the jarred stuff!

[Capt. Obvious]

53. Don't listen to these other people. They didn't have REAL fluffernutters

Teddy peanut butter
Fluff
Wonder white bread

------------------

Fascinating history of the sandwich - they were marketed as liberty sandwiches during WWI

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluffernutter#History

[MANative]

67. Wonder bread was totally required!

That is fascinating history - I didn't know that at all!

[Capt. Obvious]

99. Now that we've got fluffernutter out of the way, let's discuss the chow mein sandwich

[grasswire]

124. Gotta have Hoo-Mee

http://www.amazon.com/Hoo-Mee-Chow-Mein-Pack/dp/B0006OHRTW

[MANative]

126. I always buy a couple of packages when I go home to visit my family.

Can't buy more than a few, though, because they go rancid if they're not used quickly.

[grasswire]

146. I have never tasted it.

I only know about it from Emeril Lagasse, who grew up in Fall River and cherishes chow mein sandwiches.

[MANative]

147. Well familiar with...

Emeril, Fall River, and the sandwiches! Worked in Fall River for four years, right out of college.

[Capt. Obvious]

178. Who could forget when the Hoo Mee factory burned down

We went years without chow mein sandwiches.

[MANative]

125. Oh Yes!!! I remember a place in New Bedford, called "Chuck's China Inn"...

and we'd go there once or twice a month on a Saturday at lunchtime. When I was a little kid, I remember being less than a big fan of the "Chinese" veggies and having it "strained" - meaning they just gave you the sauce and the chicken over the crunchy noodles and roll. OMG - haven't thought about that in years!! Thanks for the reminder! LOL

[Capt. Obvious]

179. I like mine unstrained and plopped on top of a bed of fries

It's heaven.

[MANative]

180. I must confess that I've never tried it that way! Sounds perfectly decadent. ;)

[derby378]

55. Isn't that a MY LITTLE PONY character?

[MANative]

69. LOL - Perfect!!!

[abelenkpe]

57. New England thing

As a kid in Massachusetts, yes....once we moved to VA or later in CA, nope.

[MANative]

71. Seems to be showing up in pockets.

Chicago area, Northeast, Atlantic region. The only people out west have been those who had origins or relatives back east.

[choie]

58. New Yorker here...

I grew up on Long Island and definitely came across fluffernutters as a kid...

[MANative]

75. Spreading influence from New England. ;)

[truebluegreen]

107. OK, never thought to ask my dad but maybe you know:

why isn't New YORK considered part of New ENGLAND? Because it was originally founded by the Dutch, or some other reason?

[MANative]

113. My understanding was always that it was because it was founded by Europeans, but...

not the English. That's not a scholarly opinion, just what I grew up "knowing."

[smirkymonkey]

148. I grew up in upstate New York and

remember having them as a kid. I live in MA now, but don't remember the last time I came across Fluffernutter.

[gollygee]

62. They existed growing up in Michigan

but no way would my mom let me eat one. She was into health food and marshmallow sandwiches don't fit that.

PS our nickname for our cat is Fluffernutter.

[MANative]

77. I love the cat name. I picture a very fuzzed-out kitty!!!

[jwirr]

64. In MN and never heard of it but looked it up and am going to try it out on Easter for great

grandchildren. The ingredients included bread, peanut butter and marshmallow crème. What else can be used?

[MANative]

78. You can jazz it up with chunky peanut butter, jelly or jam, or fruit.

The classic was made on white bread, but I imagine you could use anything that would stand up well to the stickiness of both the peanut butter and the fluff. Have fun!

[jwirr]

84. We will - thank you.

[msanthrope]

94. Put it on graham crackers. nt

[jwirr]

95. They all love graham crackers.

[msanthrope]

97. After school snack in my house as a child was graham crackers with:

1) Peanut Butter and Fluff, or
2) Peanut Butter and Bacon, or
3) Peanut Butter and Sliced Banana.

Good times.

[brooklynite]

65. Always had them in NYC

[MANative]

80. Another Northeastern aficionado!

[hughee99]

68. Based on my experience, I'd say it could be found anywhere, but is probably most popular

in New England.

[MANative]

81. I'd say that's a fair assessment! :)

[yuiyoshida]

70. San Francisco (home of Rice A Roni) Here!

I know what a Fluffernutter is.. peanut butter and marshmallow fluff.. on a sandwich. By the way... Rice A Roni sucks.

[MANative]

82. Have to agree with you on the Rice A Roni. So salty! Haven't made it in years.

[yuiyoshida]

86. If you want real rice...eat rice..if you want noodles

Have noodles!!!

[MANative]

87. Exactly!

[yuiyoshida]

91. Yum!!!

[Xyzse]

74. Never heard of it, but when I saw the name... I just thought of the worst things.

So, I am going to shut my mouth and avoid any sort of thwapping.

[MANative]

83. I suppose it depends on how one defines "worst"

[Xyzse]

88. I guess that's very true.

I'm just trying to stay out of trouble.

[MANative]

90. Where's the fun in that?

[Xyzse]

92. Probably right, still, I'll be good for now.

[Android3.14]

76. Texas

I ate this growing up in north Texas, as did many of my friends. We did not call it fluffernutter, but just peanut butter and fluff/marshmallow. When I taught in Laredo, it was a common sack lunch staple for middle school kids, most of who were exclusively of Hispanic upbringing.

This is not a NE phenom.

[MANative]

85. Had the advantage of not being subject to spoilage in a lunch bag. We used to...

have them for school lunches when we didn't have access to a fridge (or before we thought of using ice packs)!

[Texasgal]

156. Native Austinite here...

I never heard of it. I had to google cuz' I had no idea what it was!

[calimary]

79. Californian here. Never had one. Probably a good thing.

Sounds like they're horrendously fattening. Delicious as all-get-out, but fattening as hell. It's probably just better all around that I don't know anything about them and never had one. If I did, I'd probably want six or seven more!

[MANative]

89. Definitely not health-conscious food! But, yes, quite tasty in moderation.

I probably manage to have two or three a year, when I'm feeling particularly young.

[Bluenorthwest]

93. On peanut butter you can call me a purist, no jelly, no jam, certainly no fluff, just the peanut

butter and the bread. I know the Fluff, it has it's place in life just not on my peanut butter sandwich.

[stage left]

111. Me, too.

Just peanut butter and bread. My brother-in-law makes this concoction composed of a mashed banana, peanut butter, and mayonnaise on white bread. Horrid! But then I don't like bananas anyway. I learned to dislike them when my mom would use overly ripe ones in pudding. I'm the only native in the state of South Carolina who hates banana pudding.

[MANative]

114. Depends on the surface (or delivery medium!) for me...

Nothing better than a spoonful of peanut butter with a milk chaser. On crackers or bread, I pair it with something, usually raspberry jam.

[tridim]

96. Midwest, I know what it is.

But I don't eat sugar sandwiches, so I've never had one.

[MANative]

115. You certainly have a point! It's definitely not part of my diet, other than...

maybe twice a year for nostalgia.

[tridim]

123. Yea, extreme moderation for stuff like that.

I definitely eat junk on occasion, it's part of living.

[bottomofthehill]

100. You need Fluff Fluff Fluff to make a Fluffernutter

Marshmallow Fluff and lots of peanut butter!

Loved Fluff as a kid. The Rainbow sandwich PB, Jelly and Fluff. Now my kids LOVE Fluff and Nutella on Oatmeal Bread.

We moved to VA in the early 80'S but still made trips home to MA for holiday's (Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter) and a week in the summer for family vacation along with the always important Wedding, Wake and/or Funeral (large Irish Catholic family).. On every trip home we would restock on Fluff, Cains Mayo and Salad Dressing, Devil Dogs and other Drakes Cakes, Wise Potato Chips and Polar Cola (Orange Dry, I can still taste it).

[MANative]

116. Nutella is my guilty pleasure - one jar a year. When it's gone, that it!

My visits back to MA always include a stop for coffee syrup, linguica, and stuffed quahogs.

[bottomofthehill]

167. From Fall River?

Love Coffee Syrup too, another on the bring back list. A cooler full of Steak Tips and Linguica. Have a shell fish allergy so I could never eat the Baked Stuffed Quahogs, but have been around many of them. Baked in the big ole shell with the cool purple side.

[MANative]

168. Dartmouth - close enough!

Heading home for a visit next month, if I can work out a few details. I'll be looking for some good cod and haddock, too. Can't find anything decent near me for under $15/lb. I'll vacuum seal and freeze it and it'll still be better than the "fresh" stuff here.

[bottomofthehill]

170. Thought you would be close to RI

I have cousins in Taunton, always had the Autocratic (sp) Coffee syrup or the good stuff as we would always call it. Still do today. we were there a few weeks ago and it was still in the frige. They always had Bosco Chocolate syrup too, although they dont have that any more. They had a beach house in Wareham, it was funny. the beach house was so close to their home. In the summer they always had fruit drink called Zarex i think. Fun Memories

[MANative]

171. I bought some Zarex at the Luzo's in New Bedford this summer. They just started making it again...

within the last several months. You can find it online from their webpage or at a small handful of stores on the south shore. An old friend from high school is married to the President/Owner of Autocrat. Too bad we aren't close any more! Bosco was great - haven't seen that in years, though. My whole family is still in the area, from the Cape to Cumberland.

[surrealAmerican]

103. There's this:

They were widely known in New York when I was a kid.

[MANative]

118. Wow - blast from the past!! Thanks for sharing! :)

[BainsBane]

104. Do we really need another porn thread?

I grew up in the Upper Midwest and never ate one. I had to Google to see what it was.

[MANative]

119. LOL - I'll never look at a fluffernutter the same way again! ;)

[LWolf]

109. I've never seen nor eaten a fluffernutter

sandwich or anything else, but I think I know it is peanut butter and marshmallow creme?

I was born in the midwest and grew up in the west.

[MANative]

120. You are correct, but your arteries are probably grateful. :)

[The_Commonist]

110. I never had one until we moved to New York in the late 60's...

...from California. And then, of course, I ate about a million of them.

However, there's a Cali thing that nobody in the east had (has?) ever heard of, that I still eat occasionally to this day:

Chopped Olive Sandwiches!

Chopped olives and mayo on white bread. I remember as a kid sometimes I'd have one of those for lunch followed by a Fluffernutter for "dessert."

Good times...

[MANative]

121. That's definitely a new culinary item to me. Wonder if it's similar to...

tapenade - which is kind of an olive pesto, but chunkier. Actually sounds yummy!

[Freddie]

160. That sounds good!

Green olives right? Have to try it.
Mom sometimes made a sandwich of chopped green olives and cream cheese, which was yummy too.

[The_Commonist]

181. Actually, black olives.

But I''m sure green olives would be tasty too!

Green olive cream cheese is my favorite topping for bagels.

[grasswire]

117. right now I am eating a peanut butter and dill pickle sandwich...

.....and have never had a fluffernutter. Pacific Northwesterner with a Connecticut mother and Canadian father. My mother did yearn for egg creams.

[MANative]

122. Another new one for me. Not a huge pickle fan, so I'd probably pass! ;)

[eppur_se_muova]

174. What, no mayo ?

Sacrilege !

[grasswire]

175. NO!

But I know someone from Massachusetts who eats peanut butter, pickle, mayo and lettuce sandwiches.

[olddots]

128. the Flufferbetter

rye bread ,peanut butter ,marshmallow fluff , nutella and rasberry jam .

and you better have some milk !

[MANative]

134. I enjoy each of those individually and in several combinations...

I'm trying to wrap my head around them as a single package! Intriguing! LOL

[magical thyme]

130. grew up in PA -- had many a fluffernutter in my childhood.

No, not a NE delicacy.

[MANative]

135. I have come to the same conclusion. As another poster noted...

it seemed to be extremely popular (and still is, to some degree) in NE, probably a bit more than elsewhere. With all the responses, I'm beginning to come around to the idea of nearly nationwide appeal. LOL

[Blue_In_AK]

137. What is that?

Never heard of it.

[MANative]

139. A sandwich made with...

white bread, creamy peanut butter and marshmallow fluff. Very sweet, and very sticky. Served with a glass of ice cold milk.

[Blue_In_AK]

141. Thanks.

I don't care much for sweet things, but my husband would probably love it.

[RKP5637]

142. Yep, I grew up with them! n/t

[MANative]

144. It seems that many of us did! :)

[WinkyDink]

143. Call it simply "marshmallow and peanut butter sandwich" in PA.

[MANative]

145. Have no idea of the origin of the name, but I remember it from being really...

young - like toddler-age. About a half-century ago! Someone did mention that they were called "liberty sandwiches" during WWI, so they've been around for at least double that time, if not under the same name.

[WinkyDink]

182. I used to eat them with about a 6-1 ratio of marshmallow creme to p.b.! OMG--Now that I'm remember-

ing, I recall I put the marshmallow on BOTH sides of the bread!

I've moved on from such sweets to salty chips, alas!

[LeftyMom]

149. CA: We're aware of what it is, but anybody who fed one to a kid would get side eye. nt

[MANative]

150. True! Not so much, though, when I was a kid in the 60s.

[mainstreetonce]

151. My neighbo in Nj

fed them to their kids. They named their cat Fluffernutter.

[MANative]

153. Somebody up-thread has a cat named Fluffernutter! Too funny! :)

[graywarrior]

158. Marshmallow Fluff started in my home town, Lynn MA

Out of that came fluffernutters.

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/restaurants/blog/2014/09/24/visit-marshmallow-fluff-factory/

[MANative]

161. I'll be darned! Even as a born and bred Bay Stater, I did not know that.

Thanks for that fascinating bit of home-town trivia!

[graywarrior]

169. Cool, now go have a fluffernutter

[Yo_Mama]

162. Don't know what it is, don't think it's native to GA. n/t

[MANative]

163. No, but I've learned that it was indeed invented in New England...

and "spread" from there. Peanut butter and marshmallow fluff on white bread.

[Yo_Mama]

164. Unfortunately I have a virus and my stomach is unsettled.

That sounds nauseating.

I'll have to go have some okra to settle my stomach. To each his own.

[MANative]

165. Aw, I'm sorry. Hope you feel better soon!

[Bonobo]

166. It's actually called "Marshmallow Fluff"

A "Fluffernutter" is what is created when you combine it with peanut butter.

[mountain grammy]

172. Delicacy, the stuff is, well, stuff..

can't get it here. At our altitude the stuff expands and blows the lid off.

[jpak]

173. In Maine, we can get **raspberry** Fluff - yum

[laundry_queen]

176. Well.

Not sure my opinion counts as it's not the same country, but I've never heard of it. Never had one either. I'm in Canada.

[merrily]

177. Never had one in New Jersey or New York. Saw stories about banning them from the school cafeteria

after I moved to Boston.

Since I try to keep chemicals out of my gut, I probably won't try one, unless I'm very hungry and have no other options.