Abstract: An ice cream cup having a flat lid and a spoon inside provides an improved method for vending cryogenically frozen ice cream particles by reducing vending errors and providing a spoon in one lift operation. The ice cream cup is employed in a vending machine having a plurality of sleeves and a plurality of the ice cream cups inserted in each of the sleeves where a vacuum lift device extracts an ice cream cup from the freezer and deposits the ice cream cup in an extraction area. Spoons are inserted inside the ice cream cups when the cryogenically frozen ice cream particles are packaged, so that a person purchasing the cup of cryogenically frozen ice cream particles can open the package and have a spoon readily available to consume the cryogenically frozen ice cream particles.

Abstract: A cup having a spoon packaged inside the cup provides an improved method for allowing immediate consumption of cryogenically frozen dessert particles. Spoons are inserted inside the cups when the cryogenically frozen dessert particles are packaged, so that a person purchasing the cup of cryogenically frozen dessert particles can open the package and have a spoon readily available to consume the cryogenically frozen dessert particles.