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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.
Swanson's original frozen TV dinner consisted of a compartmentalized metal tray, an entrée, and two sides — all for just 89 cents. In its first year on shelves, 10 million units were sold. In the following decades, the dinner adapted to changing diets and tastes.
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Swanson frozen TV dinner with turkey, apples & fries (1963) Enjoy the many different kinds of Swanson TV Brand Dinners… for the finest meats and poultry and seafood found in any frozen dinners.
The iconic frozen meals featured compartments for the main course, a vegetable, and a dessert - all easily heated up in the oven. But with the rise of healthier and more gourmet frozen meal options, one might wonder if Swanson TV Dinners are still being produced and consumed today.
Whereas Maxson had called its frozen airline meals “Strato-Plates,” Swanson introduced America to its “TV dinner” (Thomas claims to have invented the name) at a time when the concept was ...
The Swanson TV dinners consisted of sliced turkey with cornbread stuffing, sweet potatoes, and buttered peas, and the Swanson dinners first hit shelves in the 1950s.
More than 10 million TV dinners were sold during the first year of Swanson's national distribution. For $.98 per dinner, customers were able to choose among Salisbury steak, meatloaf, fried chicken, or turkey, served with potatoes and bright green peas; special desserts were added later.
The Swanson “TV Dinner,” which hit grocery store cases on September 10, 1953, was an immediate success. In 1954, Swanson sold more than 10 million units, and the next year, 25 million.
Enter Swanson’s TV dinner. The meal came in a special aluminum tray that could go directly from the freezer to the oven to the table to the trash.