How wonderful would it be to get your order of french fries all fresh and hot with ketchup already applied? And better yet, the ketchup is on the inside of the fries, eliminating any danger of dripping ketchup on your clothing? It would certainly make eating them while driving easier. It doesn't even have to be ketchup- you might prefer cheese sauce, ranch, barbecue, or even mayonnaise if you are European.
Weird Universe tells us that Scott E. Brient of Roswell, Georgia, thought up a way to do just that, in 2006. He invented a device to inject sauce into individual cooked french fries on a conveyor belt, and received a patent for it in 2009. The device is thoroughly explained, and the injection is automatic, so wouldn't require more manpower than a fast-food outlet already has. There are 28 pictures if that makes it clearer.
So why aren't these in use already? One might suspect that the machine itself was never built. As it is, the patent is expired due to something about the fees, like they haven't been paid. -via Nag on the Lake
Kind of reminds me of those delicious Frank-N-Stuff hot dogs in the 1980s that nobody ate except me.