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A Swanson "Hungry-Man Country Fried Chicken" TV dinner. The Swanson & Sons' TV dinner branded frozen meal sold 5,000 units when it was introduced in 1953; just one year later, the company had sold over 10,000,000 TV dinners. The company discontinued its successful butter and margarine business to concentrate on a poultry-based line of canned ...
Swanson TV dinner ad from 1963. The identity of the TV Dinner's inventor has been disputed. In one account, first publicized in 1996, [15] retired Swanson executive Gerry Thomas said he conceived the idea after the company found itself with a huge surplus of frozen turkeys because of poor Thanksgiving sales.
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 ...
According to History.com, she is the developer of the concept, [6] and the first completed product was a dinner consisting of cornbread dressing, sweet potatoes, peas, and turkey. [7] [8] She also developed Swanson’s first fried chicken TV dinner, which she said in a 1989 interview was the biggest challenge of her time with C. A. Swanson and ...
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 ...
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 ...
Thomas' wife described him as a gourmet cook who "never ate TV dinners". [2] In recent years, Thomas' TV Dinner role was disputed by former Swanson and Campbell employees, frozen food industry officials, and Swanson family heirs, who said the product was created by the Swanson brothers, Clarke and Gilbert. [3] (M. Crawford Pollock, who was ...
The 1970s and '80s were filled with memorable but not-so-healthy foods. From Danish Rings and Swanson TV dinners to Nintendo Cereal and Hubba Bubba Gum, revisit these childhood classics.