New foods at the Minnesota State Fair

Sweet-corn ice cream, only at the MN State Fair.

It's known as the "Great Minnesota Get-Together," but really it's an excuse to forget that diet and indulge in all sorts of culinary curiosities -- many of them on a stick. Fair-goers this year will have the opportunity to sample no less than 14 new foods:

• Chocolate covered jalapeño peppers
  
• Mexican horchata (cold drink made of rice, almonds, cinnamon, vanilla and sugar)
  
• Jamaican jerk fries
  
• Crab fritters
  
• Northwoods salad (a portable caprese salad)
  
• Dirt dessert (Oreo cookies, vanilla pudding, whipped cream, cream cheese and gummy worms)
  
• Sweet-corn ice cream
  
• Coushari rice with lentils
  
• Grilled chicken pita
  
• Deep-fried cookie dough
  
• Terijaki chicken on-a-stick
  
• Pretzel dog on-a-stick
  
• Grilled Yankee apple pie and chocolate sandwich (brioche filled with apples and spices covered in chocolate, grilled and topped with powdered sugar)
  
• Breakfast lollipop (sausage patty deep-fried on-a-stick with a side of maple syrup)

You can bet I'll be trying one or two of these this year.

(via StarTribune.com)