Festival attendees elected Kristina Smarz among a creative cast of candidates as the 2008 Fabulous Pharaoh of Fluff. She wears the crown (created by the fabulous CostumeWorks) and and celebrates our sticky foodstuff before passing the title and crown onto a new Pharaoh next year. 

She was sworn in by Somerville City Clerk, John Long at the festival with this oath.  

Where as I, Kristina Smarz, as the Fabulous Pharaoh of Fluff, Promise to uphold the sweet lovable nature of fluff, by remaining a pal to peanut butter, a buddy to banana, and a comrade to rice krispy. I swear to uphold and honor the delicate truce established with jelly. I solemnly swear to remind everyone that small marshmallows are no substitute for a heaping spoonful of fluff floating in your hot cocoa. I swear to unite one another as I would two slices of bread, in recognition of the triumphant marshmallow crème that is Fluff.

Therefore, I recognize that I have been chosen among many for an exalted purpose and by accepting this palatable responsibility,   I promise to go forth spreading the sweet billowing spirit of fluff throughout this great city of Somerville and shall let the delectable nature of my quest spill beyond the lines of our great and fair city and spread, spread, spread throughout the land.

Therefore, I , John Long, the Somerville City Clerk, by virtue of the power vested in me by the city of Somerville and the spirit of Archibald Query do grant the authority to wear the Venerable Crown of Marshmallow, and carry with sweet dignity the most honorable and delicious title of Fabulous Pharaoh of Fluff to Kristina Smarz.

 

Speech by Winning Candidate Kristina Smarz:

"In Fluff We Trust"

Four score and eleven years ago, Archibald Query brought forth into this Square, a new condiment, conceived in Deliciousness, and dedicated to the proposition that all boys and girls love marshmallows.

I am standing here today, because there is no better way to share my love of Fluff with you. While we may feel a rain drop, that won’t make us stop as we celebrate this – our favorite glop. As a girl I was denied sugary stuff, and was forced to eat food that was stringy and tough. My life has become so bland that would take something grand to help me get out of the rough. And then I found it – Something that restored by vim, vigor, and puff – right in my back yard, oddly enough. Query’s miraculous Fluff!

So I make a pledge that comes from my very marrow, that I will walk the straight and narrow, and proudly represent Fluff as your Pharaoh. With your vote I make you this promise, invoked to dispel any doubting Thomas: I’ll shoulder any plight, take on any fight, bite whoever I’ve got to bite – to show others that Fluff is alright – but to do that I need you to elect me tonight. And now the Declaration of Fluff:

We, the People of Somerville, Mass – in Order to form a more perfect Union Square, establish delicious sandwiches, insure sticky fingers, provide for the common sweet tooth, promote the general marshmallowiness, and secure the Blessings of fluffernutter to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish Fluff – the tasty mortar that holds together the bread that is the United States of America.


Another great speech. This one from Christopher Fleser

My name is Chris,
My campaign is this..
Do you like PB and Fluff?
Can you? Do you? Get enough?
Would you like Fluff in mixed with cheese?
Do you ask for more – with ease?
Would you like Fluff in your schools?
Would you like it sans any rules?
Do you eat it with a spoon?
Would you take it on your honeymoon?
Have you tried it as a dip?
Do you lick it off your lips?
Did you get mad some two years past
When Senator Barrios said it could not last
As a lunch choice in school cafeterias?
(Joining others in the mass-Fluff-hysteria!)
If you answered “Yes” to these
Elect me, Chris Fleser, your Pharaoh of Fluff – pretty please!@
You deserve a Pharaoh who can produce
Respect to all things -- Fluff and your sweet tooth!