http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...31352020071017

And now let's toast schnitzel!
Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:00pm EDT

BERLIN (Reuters) - Not enough time to fry your own schnitzel? A German
firm has come up with a frozen version that can be cooked in a pop-up
toaster in just three minutes.

"We came up with them because increasingly people want something that's
convenient," said Dietrich Gumppenberg, spokesman for meat-producer
Toennies. "Who has time to go to the trouble of frying something
themselves?"

The toasted version is made of pork coated in bread crumbs. It is sold
frozen and can be cooked in any toaster in three minutes.

Toennies unveiled the product, which has been two years in the making,
at a food and beverage fair in Cologne Wednesday.

"There has been a great deal of interest," Gumppenberg said, adding that
several large grocery chains, including some in China, are considering
stocking them. "The schnitzels don't ooze grease or burn when you put
them in the toaster."

"But how exactly that works will remain a company secret. We're
patenting our invention."
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ChattyCathy wrote:

> "There has been a great deal of interest," Gumppenberg said, adding
> that several large grocery chains, including some in China, are
> considering stocking them. "The schnitzels don't ooze grease or burn
> when you put them in the toaster."
>
> "But how exactly that works will remain a company secret. We're
> patenting our invention."

Patents are public. How do you keep a "company secret" by patenting it?

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Blinky the Shark > wrote:

>ChattyCathy wrote:

>> "But how exactly that works will remain a company secret. We're
>> patenting our invention."

>Patents are public. How do you keep a "company secret" by patenting it?

Perhaps they mean they are writing a patent application, but
it won't actually say what they are doing. Instead, it will
just be gobbledegook.

i.e. like 95% of patents.

Steve

ChattyCathy wrote:
> http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...31352020071017
>
> And now let's toast schnitzel!
> Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:00pm EDT
>
> BERLIN (Reuters) - Not enough time to fry your own schnitzel? A German
> firm has come up with a frozen version that can be cooked in a pop-up
> toaster in just three minutes. [snip]

Those Europeans come up with such strange concepts! Every American
knows that frozen foods should be deep-fried...... -aem

"ChattyCathy" > wrote in message
...
> http://www.reuters.com/article/oddly...31352020071017
>
> And now let's toast schnitzel!
> Wed Oct 17, 2007 2:00pm EDT
>
> BERLIN (Reuters) - Not enough time to fry your own schnitzel? A German
> firm has come up with a frozen version that can be cooked in a pop-up
> toaster in just three minutes.
>
> "We came up with them because increasingly people want something that's
> convenient," said Dietrich Gumppenberg, spokesman for meat-producer
> Toennies. "Who has time to go to the trouble of frying something
> themselves?"
>
> The toasted version is made of pork coated in bread crumbs. It is sold
> frozen and can be cooked in any toaster in three minutes.
>
> Toennies unveiled the product, which has been two years in the making, at
> a food and beverage fair in Cologne Wednesday.
>
> "There has been a great deal of interest," Gumppenberg said, adding that
> several large grocery chains, including some in China, are considering
> stocking them. "The schnitzels don't ooze grease or burn when you put them
> in the toaster."
>
> "But how exactly that works will remain a company secret. We're patenting
> our invention."

How do you clean the grease out of the toaster?