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A two-compartment package is provided which includes in a first lower compartment, frozen or refrigerated ice cream; and in a second upper compartment, frozen or refrigerated syrup with the frozen or refrigerated syrup being supported on a microwave reflective material and the microwave reflective m

A two-compartment package is provided which includes in a first lower compartment, frozen or refrigerated ice cream; and in a second upper compartment, frozen or refrigerated syrup with the frozen or refrigerated syrup being supported on a microwave reflective material and the microwave reflective material protecting the frozen or refrigerated ice cream from microwave energy whereby the rate at which the frozen ice cream located in the first lower compartment absorbs heat is much less than the rate at which the syrup in the second upper compartment absorbs heat. The first and second compartments are enclosed in a sealed container, the top surface of the second compartment of which is transparent to microwave energy. The second upper compartment may be an integral part of the food package or it may be a separate container means that is removably and tightly fitted within the upper portion of the first lower compartment.

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A food package comprising a container having two compartments arranged vertically, a first lower compartment and a second upper compartment slidably and snugly and fixedly fitting into the upper portion of the first lower compartment, said first lower compartment having first totally enclosing subst

A food package comprising a container having two compartments arranged vertically, a first lower compartment and a second upper compartment slidably and snugly and fixedly fitting into the upper portion of the first lower compartment, said first lower compartment having first totally enclosing substantially vertically juxtaposed side walls and a substantially flat bottom portion around the outer edge of which said side walls are connected, and frozen ice cream resting on said bottom portion, said first side walls having an upper edge, and resting firmly on said upper edge and snugly and fixedly fitting against the inner portion of said side walls, said second upper compartment comprising second side walls and a substantially flat bottom being in a plane substantially parallel to the bottom portion of said first lower compartment and spaced from the ice cream therebelow, said second side walls being of such dimensions as to fit snugly and fixedly against the inner portion of said first side walls of said first compartment, said bottom of said second upper compartment being constructed of a microwave-resistant metal foil material and located on the upper surface of said bottom of said second upper compartment, a frozen syrup composition, said bottom of said second upper compartment being manually puncturable; and covering said second compartment, and supported on the upper edge of said second side walls, a microwave-permeable transparent lid having a diameter minutely greater than the outer diameter of said second upper compartment, said transparent lid being substantially totally permeable to the passage of microwave energy, the dimensions of said first compartment and of said second compartment being such that conveniently consumable portions of syrup and ice cream are contained within said compartments, the volume of said ice cream being less than the internal volume of said first compartment, so that when microwave energy is generated from a location directly above said food package and in a direction substantially perpendicular to the metal foil microwave-resistant bottom of said second upper compartment, said frozen syrup melts and becomes fluid, and of such a low viscosity that it will flow as a result of the force of gravity either: (i) through a manually created orifice in said metal foil microwave-resistant bottom or (ii) by means of manually pouring the syrup from said second upper compartment into said first lower compartment.