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<blockquote data-quote="Wofano Wotanto" data-source="post: 9283717" data-attributes="member: 7044704"><p>My takeaway is more "All change is bad, why can't things stay the way we remember them being?" no matter how flawed those memories may be or how badly the status quo of the past served many people. But that's just me, your interpretation is valid as well, if somewhat narrower.</p><p></p><p>That's probably a rhetorical question, but I'll answer regardless. </p><p></p><p>Assuming you mean the peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches, I'd actually be quite surprised to discover the reactionary right had anything but praise for fluffernutters. That community likes to maintain at least a pretense of patriotism, and some research shows that not only was the original published recipe the product of Paul Rever's great-great-great-granddaughter Emma Curtis, she chose to call them the Liberty Sandwich, providing a bit of a patriotic sales boost during WW1. Nothing there a conservative wouldn't like.</p><p></p><p>Years later, a company called Durkee-Mower Inc. got into the marshmallow fluff business, which has apparently been quite profitable for many people over the last century. In the 1930s they sponsored a radio program called the Flufferettes, which featured music and comedy numbers and ran immediately before the Jack Benny Show. I've actually heard the tail end of a couple of Flufferettes episodes on home recordings thanks to that juxtaposition. The last episode featured the "Yummy Book" of recipes, including repeating the Curtis' sandwich recipe with the name filed off. Still wasn't a fluffernutter, though. That came almost 30 years later in 1960, when Durkee-Mower's ad agency came up with the name, and it's stuck ever since.</p><p></p><p>It appears in 2006 there was a legislative scuffle in the state senate of Massachusetts (where Curtis lived) about restricting the number of times per month schools could serve fluffernutters, with State Representative Kathi-Ann Reinstein swering to fight to the death to oppose the proposed bill. She was, unsurprisingly, the representative of the district where Marshmallow Fluff is manufactured. Sadly, I can't report the outcome because I'm too lazy to do more research, but I'm certainly going to use Reinstein's name for every NPC politician with a mildly absurd pork-barrel cause they're fighting for from now on.</p><p></p><p>If you were asking about the adult travel group of the same name or some other bizarre thing that's co-opted the name of a rather unhealthy snack sandwich just to get an Urban Dictionary listing, I'm afraid you're on your own. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wofano Wotanto, post: 9283717, member: 7044704"] My takeaway is more "All change is bad, why can't things stay the way we remember them being?" no matter how flawed those memories may be or how badly the status quo of the past served many people. But that's just me, your interpretation is valid as well, if somewhat narrower. That's probably a rhetorical question, but I'll answer regardless. Assuming you mean the peanut butter and marshmallow fluff sandwiches, I'd actually be quite surprised to discover the reactionary right had anything but praise for fluffernutters. That community likes to maintain at least a pretense of patriotism, and some research shows that not only was the original published recipe the product of Paul Rever's great-great-great-granddaughter Emma Curtis, she chose to call them the Liberty Sandwich, providing a bit of a patriotic sales boost during WW1. Nothing there a conservative wouldn't like. Years later, a company called Durkee-Mower Inc. got into the marshmallow fluff business, which has apparently been quite profitable for many people over the last century. In the 1930s they sponsored a radio program called the Flufferettes, which featured music and comedy numbers and ran immediately before the Jack Benny Show. I've actually heard the tail end of a couple of Flufferettes episodes on home recordings thanks to that juxtaposition. The last episode featured the "Yummy Book" of recipes, including repeating the Curtis' sandwich recipe with the name filed off. Still wasn't a fluffernutter, though. That came almost 30 years later in 1960, when Durkee-Mower's ad agency came up with the name, and it's stuck ever since. It appears in 2006 there was a legislative scuffle in the state senate of Massachusetts (where Curtis lived) about restricting the number of times per month schools could serve fluffernutters, with State Representative Kathi-Ann Reinstein swering to fight to the death to oppose the proposed bill. She was, unsurprisingly, the representative of the district where Marshmallow Fluff is manufactured. Sadly, I can't report the outcome because I'm too lazy to do more research, but I'm certainly going to use Reinstein's name for every NPC politician with a mildly absurd pork-barrel cause they're fighting for from now on. If you were asking about the adult travel group of the same name or some other bizarre thing that's co-opted the name of a rather unhealthy snack sandwich just to get an Urban Dictionary listing, I'm afraid you're on your own. :) [/QUOTE]
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