A list of the new foods on offer at the Minnesota State Fair this year. They’re all some variation of “jerked pork rolled in butter & sugar, deep fried in dill pickle batter, and served with a side of cheese curd mayo”; I’d happily try any of them.
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You lost me at pickles-as-an-ingredient. I love pickles, but only by themselves, and if I'm being honest, only dill flavored. Once you add pickles to something it becomes overwhelming pickled flavored to the point it wrecks whatever else might be going on there. For instance, pickles on a hamburger becomes a pickleburger with a hint of meat flavor. Pickles on a sub becomes a pickle sandwich with other stuff if you can taste any of it. It just sounds to me like a good way to wreck a good pickle.
The 60-minute line around the block for the pickle pizza begs to differ.
But don't fret. You can still get deep fried pickle slices or a gigantic unadulterated dill pickle on a stick.
Also you can enter pickles to be judged in 20 different pickle categories. Serious competition among the canning crowd
Holy crap! What have I been missing?!? Thanks, Jason, for publishing this. I have 44 days to plan a road trip to gustatory overload.*
*And to convince my wife that this'll be a good thing.
Oh yeah, the Minnesota State Fair is something else — gotta experience it at least once.
I thought this was from mcsweeney's the first time i looked at it. Now i'm asking my MN colleagues to check out the mustache pretzels, etc and give a review.
I was skeptical of the Minnesota State Fair after moving here four years ago, but it has become one of my favorite rituals every year. Here's a video of my partner and I trying a bunch of the new foods in 2024:
https://youtu.be/fBelUVSYTQw
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