Make your State Fair food plan

Kyle here. The Minnesota State Fair's list of new foods is out.

🤷 Have I tasted any of them? No.

• Will I withhold my take? Also no.

Let's be real: We're all attempting to judge these dishes by their press photos.

• Plus: After trying many of the new foods the last two years, I've got some sense of what hits and what misses.

Here's what I'm excited to try and what I'd rather skip:

🌭 Saving room: Pork belly bao buns and a Hmong pork sausage corndog both sound like perfect, time-tested street foods.

• Filipino sausage and cheese curds deep-fried in a lumpia spring roll — where's the flaw?
• The vegan Cubano sounds yummy, too.

🧐 Intrigued: A new vendor's savory waffle cones stuffed with barbecue mac and cheese seem amazing — but a whole coneful of chicken salad sounds daunting.

• The theory of strawberry mini donuts is excellent, but the risk of excessive sweetness looms.

🥒 Suspicious: The pickle pie may be photogenic — most coverage of the list led with its picture — but I don't have high hopes that pickle dip with hot sauce on pie crust can move me.

Map of the new foods