{"id":656730,"date":"2026-04-01T14:13:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656730\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T14:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T14:13:19","slug":"new-minnesota-twins-season-brings-new-ballpark-food-options","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/656730\/","title":{"rendered":"New Minnesota Twins season brings new ballpark food options"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The weather may not be great on Friday for the Minnesota Twins home opener, but fans at Target Field will have a chance to try some new foods.<\/p>\n<p>The club\u2019s new options for 2026 include chocolate fish on a stick and elote.<\/p>\n<p>Chocolate fish on a stick is a Japanese-style waffle filled with sweet custard and served with vanilla ice cream and chocolate sauce.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/minnesota-twins\/\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/minnesota-twins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Minnesota Twins Coverage<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Elote is also new this year. The grilled corn dish comes with three options: a spicy blue corn topping, spicy Cheetos or traditional elote spices.<\/p>\n<p>The ballpark is also adding more choices for people with sensitivities. New options include a smash burger and a hot dog with gluten-free buns.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s forecast calls for temperatures around 40 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>First pitch for the Twins-Rays is currently slated for 3:10 p.m.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TWINS-NEW-FOODS_GFX-2S-SPLIT-VO_00.00.47.14-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3895465\"  \/>Chocolate fish on a stick at Target Field <br \/>(KSTP-TV)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TWINS-NEW-FOODS_GFX-2S-SPLIT-VO_00.00.18.18-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3895462 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/>Elote at Target Field <br \/>(KSTP-TV)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TWINS-NEW-FOODS_GFX-2S-SPLIT-VO_00.00.26.16-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3895463 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/>Smashburger at Target Field <br \/>(KSTP-TV)<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TWINS-NEW-FOODS_GFX-2S-SPLIT-VO_00.00.32.04-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3895464 lazyload\"  data- style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 1024px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 1024\/576;\"\/>Hot dog with gluten-free buns at Target Field <br \/>(KSTP-TV)<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/food\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Food<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/minnesota-twins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Minnesota Twins<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/twins\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twins<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/kstp.com\/tag\/twins-home-opener\/\" rel=\"tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twins Home Opener<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The weather may not be great on Friday for the Minnesota Twins home opener, but fans at Target&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":656731,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2388],"tags":[5,6417,822,60,3190,4,148,83921],"class_list":{"0":"post-656730","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-minnesota-twins","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-food","10":"tag-minnesota","11":"tag-minnesota-twins","12":"tag-minnesotatwins","13":"tag-mlb","14":"tag-twins","15":"tag-twins-home-opener"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116329869117976897","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=656730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656730\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/656731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=656730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=656730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=656730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}