New foods on the midway for the 2026 Ohio State Fair
Here's what's trending across the USA right now:
News Sports Business Opinion Real Estate Advertise Obituaries eNewspaper Legals DINING New foods on the midway for the 2026 Ohio State Fair Bob Vitale Columbus Dispatch July 30, 2026, 6:02 a.m. ET The 2026 Ohio State Fair will feature a variety of new and unconventional food items. Many new offerings are creative twists on classic fair foods like lemonade, corn dogs and funnel cakes. Ohio-centric flavors are prominent, with items like Cincinnati chili deviled eggs and an Inside Out Buckeye. Don't panic, traditionalists. We assure you there will be plenty of the fair foods you love – lemonade without nitrogen, fries without a dusting of spicy corn chips, corn dogs without cinnamon sugar, funnel cakes without fluffernutter icing – at the 2026 Ohio State Fair .
Adding to this, Here is a rundown of what's new and just a little bit out there at this year's fair, which runs until Aug. 9 at the Ohio Expo Center and State Fairgrounds in Columbus.
Meanwhile, Cincinnati chili deviled eggs: The Ohio Poultry Association's annual foray into deviled egg oddities includes one we all wish they'd thought of sooner. Cincinnati chili sounds like a pretty good addition to deviled-egg filling; so does Columbus pizza, which is another fair flavor.
Notably, Lemon shake-up meets dirty soda: Prowant Specialty Co. will mix fresh-squeezed lemonade with vanilla sweet cream, with optional flavor boosts of peach, strawberry or blue raspberry.
As per the latest buzz, Lemon shake-up meets the ice cream shop: Another sweet-tart refreshment, this time from Rutana Concessions,adds a scoop of vanilla ice cream to lemonade.
In further updates, Lemon shake-up meets matcha latte: Fresh-squeezed lemonade is paired with matcha green tea and topped with sweet cream in the fair's version of a matcha latte from GH Concessions.
On top of that, Lemon shake-up meets draft beer (kind of): Nitrogen-infused beverages have a smooth and creamy texture and a foamy head, kind of like a draft beer. Nitro frozen lemonade from Miller & Co. Concessions is nonalcoholic but is described as having a light, velvety mouthfeel with a crisp and bright flavor.
Churro Korean Corn Dog: A Mexican favorite (churros) and an American favorite (corn dogs) get a mashup remake. Miller & Co. Concessions takes a stick of mozzarella cheese, dips it in batter and rolls it in cinnamon sugar after frying.
Source: The Columbus Dispatch