The Canadian National Exhibition opens Friday, but today, the ‘Ex revealed this year’s wacky food menu that includes mac and cheese pizza and lemonade, deep fried coffee and spicy pickle lemonade.

And of course the much talked about mustard and ketchup ice cream.

Meanwhile, CNE officials are insisting the midway rides will be safe despite an ongoing strike by safety inspectors. The CNE kicks off Friday and runs until September 5.

Here are  some of the food items to sample,

• Vegan Sorbet Floats
• Light Sabre Cotton Candy
• Cookie Butter Frites
• Mac & Cheese Lemonade/Spicy Pickle Lemonade
• Mac & Cheese Pizza
• Krispy Kreme Pulled Pork (you read that right)
• Pirate’s Treasure (vanilla ice cream inside an edible seashell, apparently)
• Spice Cream (like ice cream, but spicy)
• Squid Cakes (self-explanatory)
• Squid-Ink Korean Corndogs
• State Fair Hot Dog
• Croffles (Croissant Waffles)
• Cinnamon Curd Crunch (deep-fried cheese curds topped with cinnamon sugar)
• Deep Fried Coffee (a deep-fried funnel cake topped with cocoa beans, to be transparent)
• Giant Mozzarella Sticks
• Deep Fried Snickers
• Dole Whip Pineapple Split and Pickle Split (banana split with a twist)
• Eva’s Mac & Cheese Cones
• Flamin’ Hot Cheetos Smash Burger and Burrito
• Edible Rainbow Slime Candy
• Ketchup and Mustard Ice Cream
• Leaning T.O-wer of Pisa
• Seoul-ful Taters