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“I don’t even think his press conference was done by the time I hit print on it,” Turner told Forbes. Since then, though, he’s come up with a classier cheap menu that includes items like pretzel fries and fish sticks.

Syracuse.com catalogued several other bars around New York State that have come up with creative low-price menus.

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Hamburg Brewing Company in Hamburg initially handed out Dum Dums lollipops for a penny, but switched over to crackers, which probably go better with beer anyway. The item is so official it has a place on the menu.

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Meanwhile, in Saratoga Springs:

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“I mean why not, they’re his chips, they’re his rule so he might as well get some recognition and acknowledgment for another little hurdle we have to jump through as business owners,” owner Matthew Bagely told Albany’s WRGB-TV. Harvey’s took the liberty of adding a $1 order of Cuomo Chips to every order. Customers said they also made great paperweights for the check. They proved so popular that they sold out in two days. Now Cuomo Chips look like pretzel bites. But the name is so much fun—and presumably brought in so much business— that Bagely has decided to keep it.