Interactive compartmented food package

A one piece paperboard blank for forming a food package that can be stored and shipped in a flattened condition and opened to an expanded and operative condition at the point of use, comprising:

• a rectangular bottom-wall-forming panel having opposite, parallel, first and second side edges and opposite, parallel, first and second end edges;
• a narrow rectangular back-wall-forming panel having opposite, parallel, first and second edges, and connected along a fold line at the first edge thereof to the first side edge of the bottom-wall-forming panel;
• a first rectangular lid-forming panel having opposite, parallel, first and second side edges, and connected along a fold line at the first side edge thereof to the second edge of the back-wall-forming panel;
• a second rectangular lid-forming panel having opposite, parallel, first and second side edges, and connected along a fold line at the first side edge thereof to the second side edge of the first lid-forming panel, said first and second lid-forming panels being adapted to be folded into overlying relationship with one another and adhesively secured together to form a double thickness lid;
• a narrow rectangular front-wall-forming panel having opposite, parallel, first and second edges, and connected along a fold line at the first edge thereof to the second side edge of the bottom-wall-forming panel;
• a rectangular top-wall-forming panel having opposite, parallel, first and second side edges and opposite, parallel, first and second end edges, and connected along a fold line at the first side edge thereof to the second edge of the front-wall-forming panel;
• a glue flap foldably connected along one edge to the second side edge of the top-wall-forming panel;
• a first end closure flap foldably connected to each of the first and second end edges of the bottom-wall-forming panel;
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• a second end closure flap foldably connected to each of the first and second end edges of the top-wall-forming panel, said first and second end closure flaps being adapted to be folded into interlocking relationship with one another when the blank is erected to form a package;
• wherein a plurality of cuts are made in said top-wall-forming panel, which, when the package is erected from the blank, define a plurality of openings in said top-wall-forming panel for receiving an item, and also define a plurality of partition panels, and when the blank is folded and erected to form the package, said top-wall-forming panel and said bottom-wall-forming panel are disposed in spaced parallel relationship to one another, with at least one of said partition panels extending perpendicularly between said top-wall-forming panel and said bottom-wall-forming panel, with said glue flap adhesively secured to said front-wall-forming panel;
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• wherein said plurality of partition panels includes a first partition panel that extends parallel to the opposite side edges of the top-wall-forming panel and a second partition panel that extends transverse to the first partition panel, and said second partition panel having dimensions such that when the blank is erected to form the package, opposite side edges of the second partition panel frictionally engage between the first partition panel and the front-wall-forming panel or the back-wall-forming to hold the package in the expanded and operative condition.