'Creamy Truffle Lobster Dumplings' are one of the many new midway delicacies at the Calgary Stampede this year. (Canadian Press/Jeff McIntosh)

By Canadian Press

MIDWAY MENU

2019 Calgary Stampede midway menu gets crazier

May 16, 2019 | 9:21 AM

CALGARY – Tasty or terrifying — the man behind this year’s midway menu at the Calgary Stampede says he’s trying to create an emotional response with the food on offer.

Midway operations manager James Radke may have achieved his goal with offerings such as pickle-flavoured cotton candy, a soda made from pickle juice, deep-fried chicken hearts on a stick, flamin’ frogs legs, and octopus deep-fried or in a lollipop.

Corn dogs are still on the menu — but with options including a hot Cheeto coating and another one with ramen noodles.

Radke says the Stampede gets its ideas from the internet as well as from other fairs in Canada and the United States.

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About 25 per cent of the ideas come from local food trucks.

One of those is the Cherry Bomb Pizza — a pizza topped with hot sauce, pepperoni, bacon and maraschino cherries.

This year’s rodeo and midway runs from July 5 to July 14.

(The Canadian Press-Global)