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New York legislators are moving to repeal Gov. Andrew Cuomo's pandemic-era edict that forced bars and restaurants to make their patrons buy something to eat with booze purchases.

Both the state Senate and Assembly will be voting Wednesday, and are expected to lift the strict food-with-drinks rule that critics say has been stifling the economic recovery, especially in the bar-rich Big Apple.

"It is time to begin removing certain restrictions and regulations that are no longer necessary, so we can safely reopen and rebuild our state's economy," Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins (D-Yonkers-Scarsdale) said in a statement.

The governor's emergency executive order, imposed over the summer's COVID-19 outbreak, forced pubs to get creative with their food offerings.

Some of the most ridiculous bites bars served to thirsty patrons included Lunchables, a single sliver of cheese or even a bouillon cube.

One Saratoga eatery simply offered a $1 bag of "Cuomo chips" — until the governor took that off the menu, too, and revised his edict to require more substantial food be sold with alcohol.

Cuomo — who was labeled "Drinktator" by The Post over the mandate — claimed it was a way to quell curbside boozing amid the pandemic.

But critics charge the order is outdated, now that more New Yorkers are vaccinated against the coronavirus and infection rates continue to decline.

Andrew Rigie, executive director of the NYC hospitality alliance, welcomed the Legislature's decision to lit the restriction.

"This is good news because it's way past time this senseless food rule is repealed," he told The Post.

Rigie said that other pandemic rules, including the midnight curfew on bars and restaurants, should be repealed, too.

State lawmakers last month moved to rescind the emergency powers they granted to Cuomo to handle the coronavirus outbreak amid the Democrat's mounting sexual harassment and nursing home cover-up scandals.