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Swanson Frozen Foods/Broths. Swanson is a brand of TV dinners, broths, and canned poultry made for the North American and Hong Kong markets. The former Swanson Company was founded in Omaha, Nebraska, where it developed improvements of the frozen dinner. The TV dinner business is currently owned by Conagra Brands, while the broth business is ...
Betty Cronin (July 12, 1928–December 11, 2016) was an American bacteriologist and co-author of Campbell’s Great American Cookbook. Some call her "the mother of TV dinners ", [1] though the development of the idea has several claimants. [2] She started her career in 1950 working for the Swanson brothers. [2]
1950s: Swanson TV Dinners. Although TV dinners first came about in 1945 when Maxson Food Systems, Inc. manufactured them for military and civilian airplane passengers, they didn't become prominent ...
The Birth of the Frozen TV Dinner. The frozen TV dinner's origin story begins with a half-million-pound mistake. In 1952, C.A. Swanson & Sons overestimated the number of Thanksgiving turkeys the ...
A German TV dinner ( currywurst with fries) that has been heated. A frozen meal (also called TV dinner in Canada and US), prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, [1] ready meal (UK), frozen dinner, and microwave meal is ultra-processed food portioned for an individual. A frozen meal in the United States and Canada usually consists of a type of meat ...
Carl Anton Swanson (May 1, 1879 – October 9, 1949) was a Swedish-American businessman who was the founder of the U.S. national food production company Swanson. Background [ edit ] Carl Anton Svensson was born in Karlskrona , Blekinge County , Sweden.
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1972: Snapple. This still-popular brand got its name from, of all things, a botched batch of apple juice, according to Mental Floss. When a shipment of carbonated apple juice fermented in the ...