ST. PAUL, Minnesota — Fellow fair foodies, your favorite day of the year has arrived. The Minnesota State Fair has unveiled its new food and drink offerings for 2024, featuring dozens of new offerings and six new vendors.
Highlights include fried ranch sauce from LuLu’s Public House, ham and pickle rolls on potato skins from Route 66 Roadhouse Chicken, a traveling shepherd’s pie from O’Gara’s and a Swedish sundae from Salem Lutheran Church Dining Hall.
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Some other highlights from this year’s list include:
- Loon Lake Cotton Candy Iced Tea: “Butterfly pea flower infused tea sweetened with natural flavor and cane sugar. Topped with a swirl of edible glitter and a candy sugar stir stick for a color changing effect.”
- Union Hmong Kitchen Toasted Purple Sticky Rice: “Purple sticky rice toasted over an open flame until crispy, then topped with your choice of shredded Hmong beef jerky or marinated mushrooms. Garnished with fresh herbs and finished with Union Hmong Kitchen’s Krunchy Chili Aioli.”
- The Blue Barn’s Peanut Butter Bacon Cakes: “Thick sliced bacon dipped in pancake batter, grilled and topped with peanut butter whipped cream, grape jelly and banana chips.”
- Blue Moon Dine-In Theater’s Cola Candy Corn Float: “Minnesota-made candy corn cola and candy corn ice cream in a cup, topped with whipped cream, popping candy and homemade caramel frosting.”
You’ll be able to sample all the new dishes when the Great Minnesota Get-Together kicks off on August 22. It runs through September 2.
The organizers said ticket prices will not increase This year, admission will cost $18 for people ages 13 to 64 and $16 for children ages 5 to 12 and seniors 65 and older, the same as last year. Admission is free for children ages 4 and under.
The fair also announced its free entertainment programmingas well as its Grandstand numbers, which include Motley Crue, Ludacris and T-Pain and more.
Total number of participants at the 2023 show was 1.8 million — the sixth highest figure ever recorded.