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Appetites®
Emily Bright, Matt Alvarez and Ngoc Bui

Minnesota State Fair food review: Here’s the food you need to wait in line for

Savory Éclairs in Two Varieties
The lobster éclair is served at Scenic 61 by New Scenic Café on the east side of Underwood Street between Lee and Randall avenues, just south of Little Farm Hands.
Courtesy of the Minnesota State Fair

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This year’s list of new foods for the Great Minnesota Get-Together is an eclectic mix, as always, with creative inventions like deep-fried ranch, lobster éclair and a focaccia ice cream sandwich. But are they worth waiting in line for.

Food critic Dara Moskowitz Grumdahl has been writing about the best and worst of State Fair cuisine since 1995. This year, she said, is a post-COVID rebuilding year with some hits, lots of misses and one fun surprise: beer slushies. She shared her take on new foods during a special Minnesota State Fair edition of Appetites with guest host Emily Bright.

For the full conversation, click play on the audio player above.