Container for sliced and fluffed food products

A food package having a horizontal orientation and slightly inclined or vertical display orientation, the food package comprising:

• a base member having an upper periphery with the package in the horizontal orientation thereof, there being a center of the upper periphery;
• a main compartment of the base member for receiving a food product therein;
• a bottom wall of the main compartment having a predetermined configuration including a center that is offset from the center of the base member upper periphery to shift the weight of the food product downwardly with the package in the display orientation thereof;
• a tapered side wall portion upstanding from the bottom wall along one side thereof that generally lifts the food product away from the bottom wall to shift the weight of the food product forwardly with the package in the display orientation thereof;
• a side wall portion opposite the tapered side wall portion that extends generally perpendicular to the bottom wall for being positioned adjacent to a support surface with the package in the display orientation thereof;
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• a cover for hermetically sealing to the base member to seal the food product within the compartment to avoid the need for sealing the food product in a separate pouch within the compartment.

A food package for containing sliced food products, the food package comprising:

• a rigid base member;
• a compartment of the base member in which slices of a food product are received, the sliced food product arranged to have a fluffed appearance within the compartment;
• a bottom wall of the compartment;
• side wall portions of the compartment upstanding from the bottom wall, wherein a side wall portion has a ramp section that extends downward and inward toward the bottom wall at an oblique angle;
• an opening to the compartment above the bottom wall;
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• a rigid lid covering the opening to contain the sliced food product within the compartment, wherein the rigid lid hermetically seals to the rigid base member to seal the sliced food product within the compartment to avoid the need for sealing the sliced food product in a separate pouch within the compartment.