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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.
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]
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 ...
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 until 1954, when Swanson ...
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 ...
The first "TV dinner" is made by C.A. Swanson & Sons. ... 1954: First broadcast of The Tonight Show, Father Knows Best, Disneyland and Lassie; ...
As the U.S. prepares for the 57th presidential inauguration, The Daily Meal decided to take a nostalgic look at past inauguration meals and what presidents have eaten on the big day.
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 ...