The Iowa State Fair returns this August 8-18 with music, butter cows and of course new foods. This year brings a bumper crop of 84 new dishes that will make their debut at the 2024 Iowa State Fair.
This year looks very tasty, with bacon cheeseburger eggs, a cheeseburger corn dog, a lobster corn dog, and pulled pork.
Desserts include Candied Bacon Gnocchi, a Barbie-era Funnel Cake, Cookies and Cream Nachos, Apple Cinnamon Tacos, a Funnel Cake Burger, Maple Bacon Bliss Sundae, Pink Lemonade Pie and Dots with lemonade.
For fans of all things deep-fried, find deep-fried bubble gum, a hot deep-fried Cheetos pretzel, deep-fried PB&J, and pepperoni fries.
This year, hungry fairgoers can enjoy Garlic Farm’s pickled pizzas and specialty Iowa street corn pizzas.
For breakfast lovers, the Bunchy Burger, a Bloody Slap, and a Hot Mess Biscuit (among a variety of other new cookie dishes) are on hand to feed the hungry fairies.
For lobster lovers, this year brings a Connecticut-style two-legged lobster or a basic two-legged lobster.
Here, a look at the 84 new foods at the Iowa State Fair.
What new foods are at the Iowa State Fair in 2024?
- Potatoes with apples
- Bacon Cheeseburger Egg Rolls
- Barbie Era Funnel Cake
- Beer belly fries
- BLT on a stick
- Breakfast sandwich
- Burger Brunchy
- Pig’s blood slap
- Butterbeer ice cream
- calamari
- Candied Ham Gnocchi
- Corn dogs with cheese
- Chicken Flautas
- DG chicken strips
- Chicken Mac Attack Bowl
- The hen’s nest
- Apple cinnamon tacos
- Connecticut Style Lobster Rolls
- Cookies and ice cream nachos
- Corn in a cup
- French toast topped with crème brulee
- Deep fried bubble gum
- Hot Deep Fried Cheetos Pretzels
- Deep Fried PB&J
- Deep Fried Pepperoni Fries
- Disco stick
- Dough-chos
- Fabulous fries
- Egg fiesta
- Firecracker Shrimp
- I fly fried bread
- Hot Cheeto Floats
- Funnel Cake Burger
- Garlic Ranch Pickles Pizza
- Golden Fried Vegetable Samosas
- Hand fuel
- Hot Chicken Chicken
- Hot Mess Cookies
- Ice cream nachos
- Iowa Street Corn Specialty Pizza
- Iowa sm’oak’ed roll
- Under Italian meatballs
- AE party balls
- Lamb chopsticks
- Donut lemonade drops
- Bites Lil’ L’Roy
- Lobster Corn Dogs
- Loose sandwich L’Roy
- Mac bowl in Louisiana
- Maple bacon bliss sundae
- Nachorito
- Not your dad’s burger
- PB&J cookies
- Peanut Butter Pretzel Brownies
- Pizza with pickles
- Piggy in a donut
- Pink Lemonade Pie
- Corn dog with pork belly
- Pork Belly Cord Bites
- Protein bowl
- Smoked pulled pork snacks
- Dog food
- Raspberry Ravioli
- Raspberry Cheesecake Frozen Yogurt
- Swirl the cake with the tequila funnel
- Siraça pickle
- Spicy Fever Beef Burger
- Cookies waiting
- Strawberries and cream waffle on a stick
- Sunrise Sugar Pearl Waffle Sandwich
- The Big Daddy Burger
- The ice cream illusion
- Holiday cookie
- The usual cookie
- Bacon brisket burger
- Sweet peach
- Tornado
- Two-legged Connecticut-style lobster roll
- Double Leg Lobster Roll
- Up to smoke snacks
- Top with dill fritters
- Walking the Frito Pie
- Walleye Fish Tacos
- What is your habit?
Top New Food Contest Winners
Next week, the Iowa State Fair invited media personalities, members of the Blue Ribbon Foundation, State Fair queens and more to determine the three dishes that will compete for Best New Food at the State Fair. The fair selected 10 dishes to be examined and voted on.
Tune in live on July 16 at 1:00 pm at facebook.com/iowastatefair.
Grilled mac-n-cheese with deep-fried bacon brisket from What’s Your Cheez took top honors, as voted on by fairgoers.
This new dish used Rib Shack’s signature bacon mac and cheese, which is then sandwiched between layers of American cheese and two slices of What’s Your Cheez bacon cheddar bread. It is then deep fried and served with a raspberry chipotle barbecue sauce.
Previous The best new foods at the Iowa State Fair
2013: Shrimp Corn Dog – Zag’s Po Boys
2014: Funnel Cake on a Stick – Multiple Sellers
2015: The Rib Shack – The Ultimate Bacon Brisket Bomb
2016: Iowa Turkey Federation – Not Your Mother’s Taco
2017: Steer ‘N’ Stein – The Almighty Pig
2018: Applishus – Apple Eggroll
2019: G Mig’s Wrap Stand — Georgie’s Biggest Wrap Stand
2021: Cluckin’ Coop by Iowa Egg Council/Iowa Poultry Association – Chicken Egg Salad with Fried Bread
2022: The Rib Shack – The Finisher
2023: What’s Your Cheese – Mac-n-Cheese Grilled Cheese
Susan Stapleton is entertainment editor and dining reporter at The Des Moines Register. Yyou can contact him on Facebook, I tweetor Instagram, or drop her a line at sstapleton@gannett.com.