FOOD FROM MACHINES
Mifcoyan Samples Wares WASHINGTON, January 19. Seriously and methodically, Mr Anastas Mikoyan tasted the wares of automatic vending machines today and found them “good, very good.” The Soviet First Deputy Premier made a hasty, unscheduled visit to the mechanised cafeteria of the Potomac Electric Power Company, just as most of the employees left for the day. There, with someone else supplying the coins, Mr Mikoyan tested hot coffee, a nationallypopular soft drink, macaroni and cheese, beef noodle soup—in that order. He had a Bologna and cheese sandwich, too, but left it untouched. Mr Mikoyan came back for a second taste of the hot macaroni and cheese, using a small, green plastic spoon provided with the food.
“What do you do with the spoons?” Mr Mikoyan asked through his interpreter. He was told that they were destroyed. Mr Mikoyan appeared surprised. How much did they cost, he inquired. “About a quarter of a cent,” he was told.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28799, 21 January 1959, Page 11
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