One of his pet projects is a conveyor broiler due out next year--put a hamburgerpatty on its moving belt and it emerges two-and-a-half minutes later fully cooked.
Such is the intent, under the guise of convenience, of such foods as Ore Ida's blue French fries, Eastern Foods' purple pizzas, and ConAgra's Kid Cuisine, which features TV dinners like the Sandwich Builder a hamburger meal with a patty shaped like a house and cookies that look like bricks.
Officials on Spain's Canary Islands said they had seized one metric ton of hamburger patties with varying levels of horse meat ranging from 5 percent to 40 percent per patty.