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Peoples' Choice Best New Food
The Deep-Fried Bacon Brisket Mac-n-Cheese Grilled Cheese, a new food from What’s Your Cheez, took top honors in the 2023 People’s Choice Best New Food Contest. The Grinder Ball from The Bacon Box and Iowa Twinkie from Whatcha Smokin’ BBQ & Brew were also in the competition.
Deep-Fried Bacon Brisket Mac-n-Cheese Grilled Cheese – What’s Your Cheez
The Rib Shack’s signature Bacon Brisket Mac and Cheese is slathered between layers of American cheese and two slices of What’s Your Cheez Bacon Cheddar Bread. It is then deep-fried until golden brown and served with a signature raspberry chipotle BBQ sauce.
BEST NEW FOOD FINALIST
Iowa Twinkie – Whatcha Smokin’ BBQ & Brew
“A Texas staple with an Iowa twist.” A smoked bacon-wrapped jalapeno stuffed with pulled pork, sweet corn, cream cheese and ranch seasoning. It is then glazed with Whatcha Smokin’ BBQ & Brew house-made Sweet + Sticky BBQ sauce and drizzled with house-made ranch dressing.
BEST NEW FOOD FINALIST
Grinder Ball – The Bacon Box
The Grinder Ball is a blend of bacon balls stuffed with mozzarella cheese, wrapped in bacon, rotisserie smoked and dipped in warm marinara sauce. The Grinder Ball is The Bacon Box’s new signature gluten-free take on the traditional State Fair Grinder.
2023 Iowa State Fair NEW Foods List
Sweet, salty, savory, strange, tasty, on-a-stick, on a plate, in a bowl, there were 64 new foods to try at the 2023 Iowa State Fair.
2023 New Food List
- (Banh Mi) Vietnamese Sandwich
- (Café Muoi) Salted Coffee
- A-Hootenanny
- 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 Pretzel
- Deep Fried Strawberry Shortcake on a Stick
- Deep Fried Sweet Corn Nuggets
- 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
- Pretzel Dog
- 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