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RacketCast, Ep. 59: Emergency 2026 MN State Fair New Food/Drink Roundtable!

Is it the Year of the Sausage, the Year of Skin, the Year of Bao, or something else entirely? We discuss.

4:12 PM CDT on August 28, 2026

Jay Boller

No time for extensive show notes—this is an emergency! Listen to all four Racket owner/editors gab for an hour-plus about all the Minnesota State Fair official new foods we gobbled Thursday.

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