Fluff Fest 2010 baby!
The first thing you should know about the annual “What the Fluff” Marshmallow Fluff Festival of Somerville, Massachusetts is that it is delicious. You will gain five to ten pounds between 3 pm and 7 pm. The second thing you should know is that the Fluff Fest is freaking hilarious. And the third thing you should know is that it is jam-packed with fluff-themed… burlesque dancers. They wear fishnet stockings and fluffy bunny tails.
“I hope you have fun at the Fluff Fest!” texted my friend.
“Amy,” I replied, “it is literally impossible to NOT have fun at ‘What the Fluff.’”
Marshmallow Fluff was invented in Union Square, Somerville (one of my favorite Boston-area haunts) a bunch of years ago. In 2006, some brilliant folks decided to celebrate this feat with an annual street party. Let us all praise heaven that genius of this caliber exists on Earth!
But don’t just take my word for it… Examine the photographic evidence:
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- EVERYONE was there!
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- You run into a million buddies.
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- Stands line the curbs.
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- Order Fluff deliciousness!
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- Mmm Rice Krispie with Fluff!!!
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- Me chomping Fluff Krispie Treats.
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- 2010 theme: Whoopie Pie.
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- Competition for Fluff Pharaoh.
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- Fluff burlesque dancers :)
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- Fashionable Fluff hat.
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- Smores assembly table!
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- Hehe: “Smores Code.”
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- Chefs serve up Fluff cuisine.
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- Tents of fluffy joy.
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- Estimate the marshmallows!
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- Flufferette Burlesque troupe!
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- Hoola-ing for love of Fluff.
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- Fluff beanbag toss.
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- Fluff boy darts!
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- Fluff gun shooting game.
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- Coin toss, a la Fluff.
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- Gross Fluff Fear Factor combos.
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- Ew: Fluff, salsa, and beans.
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- Man eats Fluff and salsa.
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- Fluff cupcakes and ice cream.
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- Look at the boy gaping!
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- Man covered in Fluff?!
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- A friend shows off Fluff Bingo.
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- Fluff bingo, ex: pug in costume.
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- Put your head on Fluff Boy.
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- Hilarious Fluff Show schedule!
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- Fluff bowling for kids.
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- Vote for Fluff Pharaoh!
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- Fluff Pharaoh campaigning.
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- First prize awaits a winner.
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- Local Bars had Fluff martinis.
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- Fashionable Fluff t-shirts.
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- Whoopie Pie with peanut butta!
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- Me chomping Whoopie Pie!
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- Whoopie Pie heaven close-up.
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- Mmm, bitten Whoopie Pie!
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- We LOVE the Fluff Fest!!!
I didn’t know fluff was invented is Somerville! Next time, my brother and I will have to go. He’s an insane fluff enthusiast.
In my 13 years of living in Boston, I have never heard of a Fluff festival. It looks interesting and unique.
That looks like SO much fun! I would love to try to make it next year. Maybe I’ll see you there!
OMG seriously?! of course they had to start this after i moved away!
nothing better than warming up from a cold walk home from school than 1/2 a mug of hot cocoa + 1/2 a mug of fluff! fun post 
I guess there’s a festival for just about anything!
Oh My God. That looks freaking amazing! Ms. Marshall, did you really gain weight? I don’t think that’s possible!!!! My favorite would probably have to be the burlesque dancers. Firstly, because they looked FIERCE haha, and secondly, because I just saw the movie Burlesque last weekend and I loved it! I definately have to go next year!
-Renee
I’ve lived in Boston for more than half my life and never HEARD of a Marshmallow Fluff Festival anywhere in Massachusetts. Looks to me like you had a lot of fun.
I had no idea such a thing existed! How cool! I live in Paris and it’s funny to see how much the locals here LOVE marshmallow fluff. They even have strawberry flavored fluff in specialty stores. I didn’t think people back home in the U.S. were still eating the stuff but clearly I was wrong!
Were the Ghost Busters there, just in case things got too far out of hand?
Fluff is the most vile thing I have ever seen, next to cheese in a spray can, but this festival looks like so much fun.
I’ll have to make it out this this event next year! Looks de-li-cious!!
Wow, enough sugar to keep you wired all week in class! Hope the kids can keep up!
Looks like fun! Although to be honest – that amount of sweets looks like it’s going to make somebody feeling, let’s say, not well..