this from our correspondent in new york:

the national cattlemen’s beef association… is hoping to inject some red meat into the american snack food diet with cheeseburger fries. the fries, which look like a squat version of standard french fries, are made of a meat-and-cheese compound that tastes — as the name suggests — like a cheeseburger. and while the taste is not distinctly beef, biting into one does impart the lingering flavoring of processed cheese.

mmm… fries. read the complete story here.