Container for food products

A retail food product and container comprising:

• a quantity of a food product;
• and
• a hermetically sealed container capable of receiving the food product in high speed commercial filing operations, comprising a bottom wall, a pair of sidewalls having flat lower portions, each sidewall having a brow ridge protruding near the top to the sidewall, a pair of end walls, and a hinged lid, the bottom, sidewalls and end walls forming an interior of the container, the brow ridge being curved upward between its ends;
• the side walls and end walls being stepped or flared outward near their upper ends to form an upper end flared portion which has an enlarged internal volume and which flared portion has at least one peripheral circumference which is greater than the peripheral circumference of the bottom wall, the upper end flared portion terminating in a top lip and defining a top opening in the container, the flared portion effective for providing access and removal of food;
• a wiper edge in the upper end flared portion extending inwardly into the interior of the container such that the wiper blade overhangs the interior of the container;
• a snap lock effective for holding the lid over the top opening;
• and
• wherein the sidewalls are generally flat and the end walls generally semicircular, and wherein said hinged lid is effective for covering the top opening.

A container capable of receiving a food product and which facilitates the removal of the food product for consumption, the container comprising:

• an oval shaped bottom wall;
• a pair of generally flat sidewalls effective for having a label applied thereon;
• at least one sidewall having a crescent shaped brow ridge defined by a recess in the side wall, the brow ridge protruding near the top of the sidewall, the at least one brow ridges being curved upward between its ends;
• a pair of semi-circular shaped end walls which are smaller in area than the side walls, the bottom, sidewalls and end walls forming an interior of the container;
• and
• a hinged lid;
• the side walls and end walls being stepped or flared outward near their upper ends to form an upper end flared portion of the container which upper end flared portion has at least one peripheral circumference which is greater than the peripheral circumference of the bottom wall, the upper end flared portion terminating in an oval shaped top lip which defines a top opening in the container, the flared portion effective for providing access and removal of food, the hinged lid effective for covering the top opening;
• a wiper edge in the upper end flared portion extending inwardly into the interior of the container;
• and
• a snap lock effective for holding the lid over the top opening.

A container capable of receiving a food product and which facilitates the removal of the food product for consumption, the container comprising:

• a bottom wall;
• a pair of sidewalls having flat lower portions,
• each sidewall having a crescent shaped brow ridge defined by a recess in each sidewall, the brow ridges protruding near the top of the sidewalls, the brow rides being curved upward between their ends;
• a pair of end walls, the bottom, sidewalls and end walls forming an interior of the container,
• the side walls and end walls being stepped or flared outward near their upper ends to form an upper end flared portion which has an enlarged internal volume and which flared portion has at least one peripheral circumference which is greater than the peripheral circumference of the bottom wall, the upper end flared portion terminating in a top lip and defining a top opening in the container, the flared portion effective for providing access and removal of food;
• a detachable closure assembly which is detachably engageable with the upper end flared portion of the sidewalls and end walls, the closure assembly including a closure body, a snap lock and a hinged lid, the closure body having a wiper edge extending inwardly into the interior of the container such that the wiper blade overhangs the interior of the container, the snap lock effective for holding the lid to the closure body over the top opening;
• said brow ridge being curved upward between its ends;
• wherein the sidewalls are generally flat and the end walls generally semicircular, and wherein said hinged lid is effective for covering the top opening.