Fluffernutter

Based on the subject title of this you may think I have gone bonkers. Well, there is such a word as Fluffernutter. It's a proper noun, the name of a kind of sandwich spread popular in the northeast part of the U.S. Though I have never eaten Fluffernutter it is almost the came as the marshmallow creme we have here in the south. It is a creamy solution of corn syrup, sugar, dried egg whites and vanilla flavoring.
There is a furor brewing in Massachusetts over Fluffernutter after a school served Fluffernutter and peanut butter sandwiches as the main course for a school lunch, as one state Senator ha introduced a bill banning Fluff from school lunch menus. But wait! Don't kids everywhere routinely eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches? Is Fluff any worse than jelly? I don't think any school system bans jelly, so why ban Fluff? This all sells fliuffy...er...rotten to me. It seems that politicians are trashing school lunch programs (the one in Massachusetts that served the Fluff has excellent nutritional ratings over all for its lunches) to win support from voters who are concerned about obesity in kids.
To single out only Fluff for a ban is odd. Why don't parents who object to it (I don't think many have actually complained, despite the Senator's ban proposal) simply send a bag lunch to school with their little one one days when Fluff is served in the cafeteria? Schools publish their menus each week. How much trouble is it to read them and to send an alternative when it isn't to the parent's liking. maybe that Senator won't be satisfied with banning Fluff. Next he might want a certain type of "more nutritious bread for sandwiches or maybe a lower fat peanut butter. Hmmmmmmm If the people of Massachusetts are lucky that senator will give up his seat in the legislature and become a school nutritionist. At least that way there will be fewer fluff issues taking up time in the legislative sessions..
From the "They really have to think hard to come up with a reason to sue" department, comes word of the "bloody ice cream sundae" law suit. In this one, a woman named Carmen Jara, from Georgetown, Delaware is suing a McDonald's restaurant owner (Is there anyone not suing McDonald's?) after claiming that a hot fudge sundae she bought for her 12 year old son was contaminated with human blood.
The restaurant owner says that the red substance was really strawberry syrup (well, some McDonald's food is so bad, I can believe it could be mistaken for blood). Instead of the blood Jara claims came from a employees cut finger, the McDonald's owner, Michael Meoli, says Jara has too great of an imagination for her won good. The "blood" was in fact strawberry syrup that clogged the sundae machine. The suit sounds "Bloody" fishy to me, and I hope the McDonald's owner's comment about Jara comes to pass if that is the case. "I hope she gets the same thing the Wendy's lady got," he said, referring to a woman who was recently sentenced to nine years in prison for planting a severed finger in a bowl of Werndy's chili to extort money from it. Sigh...but Jara will probably find a reason to sue the prison if she goes..