Veggie-eating invention competition seeks to make food fun

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March 28, 2000
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(CNN) -- Perhaps the most famous vegetable invention ever was the Veggie-matic. But a recent contest featured inventions that neither slice nor dice -- they're supposed to make vegetables more fun to eat.

To promote the 75th birthday of the Green Giant, the company asked kids to compete at the National Veggie Eating Invention Contest at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Museum in Washington.

CNN Correspondent Jeanne Moos makes the moost of the competition.

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