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The region’s popular food trucks gather every Friday at Pearl Street Park downtown Sioux City to serve tasty lunch choices during the summer season. Bring a friend and enjoy lunch outside from 11:00 am -1:00 pm! Presented by Seaboard Triumph Foods, in collaboration with Downtown Partners and the City of Sioux City.

To check out the weekly lineup of food trucks, click here!

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no permanent parking spots around here

they do a special city parking lot reserved on Fridays

The Iowa State Fair, one of the largest in the country, has been held nearly every year since 1854, and it’s been located on the same Des Moines fairgrounds since 1886. Not only are there roughly 200 food stands to choose from, but the New York Times wrote a breathlessly fascinated 2012 feature specifically focused on the Iowa State Fair’s deep-fried foods on a stick—the event’s signature serving style. More than 50 different treats come on a stick each year.


New foods at the 2023 Iowa State Fair
Here’s the full list of the new foods to get excited about this year. Some of them are delightfully devoid of explanation, so we’ll have to use our imaginations:

Vietnamese Sandwich (Banh Mi)
Salted Coffee (Café Muoi)
A-Hootenanny ice cream
Amish Donuts
Apple Pie Cookie Ice Cream
Bacon and Sweet Corn Lobster Rolls
Bacon Cheddar Pretzel Dog
Bauder’s Cherry Dream Ice Cream
Berry Bowl Frozen Sorbet
Birch Beer Soda
Blueberry Mini Donuts
Bubble Tea
Bucket of Soda
Buffalo Chicken Bacon Ranch Fries
Burrito Bowl
Butterbeer Ice Cream
Byrd Dawg Crispy Chicken Sandwich
Caramel Apple Cake Pops
Catfish in a Boat or on a Stick
Chicken Salad Hoagie
Chopped Brisket Sandwich
Chopped Italian Chicken Hoagie
Chopped Italian Ham Hoagie
Chopped Italian Roast Beef Hoagie
Citrus Boost Energy Drink
Cookie Dough Sundae
Cotton Candy Art
Cotton Candy Cheese Cake
Craft Link on a Stick
Crunchy Cool Ranch Pickle on a Stick
Deep Fried Bacon Brisket Mac-N-Cheese Grilled Cheese
Deep Fried Strawberry Shortcake on a Stick
Deep Fried Sweet Corn Nugget
Dill Pickle Flavored Cheese Curds
Dough Crazy (Chocolate Chip, Cake Batter, Brownie Batter, Brookie, CC Dough w/o CC, Monster, Cherry Chocolate Chip, Cookies and Cream) Sweet Stick
Fried Caramel Apple Cow Tail
Grilled Shrimp on a Stick
Grinder Ball
Hot Stuff Grilled Cheese
Iowa Sweet Corn Sundae
Iowa Twinkie (Jalapeno Filled with Pulled Pork, Corn and Cream Cheese, Wrapped in Bacon, Smoked with Sweet and Sticky BBQ, Finished with Ranch)
Korean Bacon Egg Dog
Korean Egg Dog
Lamb Gyro Salad
Made from Scratch Bacon Maple Monkey Bread
Orange (with Peppermint) Sipper
Orange Float
Orange Slush
Orange-Frosty
Oreo Brownie Blast
Peanut Butter Cream Donuts
Pop Corn Shrimp
Pork Belly Pinwheel
Raspberry Chipotle Grilled Cheese
Shrimp Ceviche
Shrimp Poke Bowl
Shrimp Tacos
Soft Serve Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Sundae
Southern Fried Corn on the Cob
The Ooey Gooey All American Grilled Cheese
Ube Funnel Cake
Walking Banana Dessert
Walking Smores Dessert
Walleye in a Boat or on a Stick

New foods at the Minnesota State Fair.

https://www.mnstatefair.org/new-this-year/food/

Some look great, some others I wouldn't touch with a 10 foot pole.

Lotsa those look good!

the beer can tarnishes the top two

I know that was uncalled for

Wow, I'm the opposite.  State Fair food is delightful.  It's certainly not something I'd eat every day, or every week, or every month.  But once per year?  Yeah, bring it on.