You can breathe easy, New Yorkers: the yogurt debate is over. The New York Senate chose the tart culture as the state snack after arguing for almost an hour. Is yogurt really a snack? Would kale chips be a better choice?

Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer's bill was eventually passed, but not before the New York Senate posed questions - many questions - about the benefits and disadvantages of choosing yogurt as the state snack.

"What exactly are we defining as a snack?" asked Sen. Gustavo Rivera, a Democrat from the Bronx.

"I think it's self-explanatory. I mean, you have breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and then you have snacks," said the bill's Republican sponsor, Sen. Michael Ranzenhofer.

Rivera said: "What if I wake in the morning and I have a cup of yogurt for breakfast? I guess that would not be considered as a snack."

Ranzenhorfer responded: "That is a snack, time doesn't matter. You are eating the state snack of yogurt at breakfast."

Senator Rivera later suggested "kale chips."

"Did you consider, say, the potato chip?" Rivera asked, posing the same question about raisins and pretzels. He then asked: "What if the pretzel was dipped in yogurt?"

After many back-and-forth questions like this, the Senate finally voted at around 7 p.m. after nearly an hour of debate. The New York Senate voted 52 to 8 in favor of yogurt. The bill is headed next to the State Assembly, and, if it passes, it will go on to the governor's desk, The Christian Science Monitor reports.

These are your tax dollars at work, New Yorkers. But look at the bright side - now we have an official state snack.

New York is America's largest yogurt producer, ABC News reports. Genesee County, home to the elementary students who suggested the bill, has numerous dairy farms and yogurt plants that employ hundreds.