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2. Swanson - Wikipedia

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   The Swanson Company's first frozen dinner was a turkey dinner; eventually, the company added chicken and beef entrées. [1] With over half of American households owning televisions by the 1950s, the Swanson brothers called their frozen meals "TV dinners," suitable for eating on a folding tray in one's living room while watching television. [3]

3. Frozen meal - Wikipedia

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   Frozen meal. 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 [citation needed] portioned for an individual. A frozen meal in the United States and Canada usually consists of a type of meat, fish, or pasta for the main course ...

4. Betty Cronin - Wikipedia

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   Betty Cronin. 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]

5. Swanson TV Dinners, Hot Pockets, and More Iconic Frozen ... - AOL

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   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 ...

6. Frozen TV Dinners We Loved as Kids (and Still Miss) - AOL

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   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 ...

7. Foods From the '70s and '80s People Will Never Eat ... - AOL

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   Swanson TV dinners. A turkey or fried chicken dinner encased in foil was where it was at in the 1970s. You had to perform surgery to extricate the peas and carrots baked into the fruit cobbler ...

8. Gerry Thomas - Wikipedia

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   Gerry Thomas. Gerry Thomas (February 17, 1922 – July 18, 2005) was a Canadian who moved to the US to become a salesman. He is sometimes credited with inventing prepackaged meals in 1952. Thomas, who worked for the Swanson food company in America in the 1950s and went public with his account decades later, said he designed the company's famous ...

9. The One Iconic Food That Was Launched the Year You Were Born

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   1960 Swanson TV Dinner Advertisement Life Magazine December 5 1960. 1954: Swanson TV Dinners. After Thanksgiving 1953, a Swanson salesman found a creative use for the company's hundreds of tons of ...