Senator Berke: I know we had some discussion about this in Senate Education Committee. We talked about the fact that the nutrition guidelines for a state and federal purposes were not being supplanted by this, do we know whether those are total by particular product or whether those are by ounce …because that could make a difference in how thi particular bill has effect.

Senator Bunch: Thank you, Mr. Speaker. In a currently…if you’re trying to be the nutritional Nazi police on school campuses, then we need to have someone there to keep them from buying more than one product if it’s 8 ounces. If there’s an issue of nutrition with buying two – they can simply buy two and circumvent that. So, it’s my understanding this does nothing to change the nutritional – the guidelines at all – they still must meet state and federal guidelines. So there is nothing changed nutritionally at all, it just permits a larger product and basically that’s the way they come. Most vendors produce those in 12 ounce packages and not 8 ounce so this simply allows a greater selection of vendors to be able to get on campus.

Watching the video, you can see clearly that Senator Bunch is nonplussed by his gaffe. Senator Burchett (R, the Fightin’ 7th!), in the background to the left, reacts immediately with wailing and gnashing of the teeth (or as close to that as a state senator who realizes his colleague just said something really offensive can get).

Later, a clearly verklempt Senator offers his apology:

You know who might, just might, be offended by your “comedy” reference, Senator Bunch?

Senator Berke.

Just sayin’….