The New York state Senate spent 50 minutes on Tuesday debating a western New York senator’s bill to designate yogurt as the state official snack. The senate ultimately passed Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer’s bill, but not without wondering at length if tapping yogurt for the state’s official snack was really the best way to serve New Yorkers, as opposed to giving the nod to another food. Yogurt has a lot going for it as New York’s state snack. The Empire State has in recent years been on an epic quest to crown itself a yogurt empire, especially as Greek yogurt factories have boomed in upstate New York, turning some ailing, rural parts of upstate New York into proverbial lands of milk, if not honey. Last month, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) announced that New York had officially become “America’s Yogurt Capital,” beating out California by producing 692 million pounds of yogurt in 2012. Yogurt is so dear to New York that when Russia refused to ship 5,000 cups of Chobani Greek yogurt to the US Olympic team in Sochi, Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D) of New York wrote directly to the Russian ambassador to plead the yogurt’s case. So, at around 7 p.m., the Senate voted 52 to 8 in favor of yogurt. The bill is headed next to the State Assembly, and, if passes, it will go to the governor’s desk. But choosing official New York state foods has in the past not gone well. In 2011, New York senators sought to correct the state’s embarrassing lack of an official state vegetable, noting that the state had an official fruit (apple) and drink (milk), but had somehow neglected to name a vegetable.

We have? lol. I have noticed a lot of people buying those greek yogurts though. Slay I guess