A Device to Inject Ketchup Into French Fries

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

You pull up to the drive up window smelling the sweet smells wafting out of the window during the transaction then head home with supper on the seat... within easy reach. Hmm... really should open the bag to let moisture out so things don’t get soggy. The smell of French Fries wafting from the bag nullifies the pine tree on the mirror and kids trash on the backseat floor. You really should check to see if the order is ok before you get home... you know, to prevent being embarrassed. So you reach into the bag and pluck a fry with two fingers but quickly switch fingers because it’s hot. Almost too hot to eat... I said almost, but you let it cool for a few seconds while justifying you’re bringing it to the table so deserve an extra fry, the sweetest fries in history are stolen on the ride home. Now picture that fry has been injected with ketchup, cheese, gopher guts, what ever to wanted... ambrosia.This patent application by Mr Brient has 54 pages of various ways to do this so nobody could steal his idea and do it a different way in order to circumvent his patent. The patent expired so I guess he didn’t want to do it, just sell his idea.

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No. No, no, no. The sauce (be it ketchup, Ranch, whatever) is there to be a sweet cooling-off to the hot fry. But pre-injecting the condiment INTO the fry will make the condiment hot. Nobody wants hot ketchup or hot mayo. Those are meant to be cool. Ah, but gravy? That's THE hot condiment. Find a way to inject hot gravy into hot fries, and you'll have the world at your fingertips.
Kind of reminds me of those delicious Frank-N-Stuff hot dogs in the 1980s that nobody ate except me.

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