A box-shaped container is formed with two container halves joined together
for swiveling along an adjoining edge. Each of the halves comprises a
bottom wall, side walls protruding away from same, and rear walls joining
them at their ends. The joining edge is formed by the upper end edges of
the rear walls. To improve such a box-shaped container in that removal of
the food stuff is simplified in a simple constructive manner and without
dispensing with the advantages of known containers and at the same time
avoiding dirtying the user, the side walls of the first container half
are formed with increasing height, and the side walls of the second
container half are formed with decreasing height in the respective
direction to the front wall.