Swanson's original frozen TV dinner consisted of a compartmentalized ... mothers and children were gobbling up the company's ...

Swanson also started adding desserts to its frozen TV dinner trays during the '60s and ... Although Trader Joe's mandarin orange chicken first came out in 2004, it took the 2010s by storm.

Swanson’s was rebranded as Pinnacle Foods ... cooked meal” without the muss and fuss of pots and pans. Fried chicken TV dinner (Photo by Famartin/CC BY-SA 4.0) My favorite TV dinner meal ...

Ultimately, it was the Swanson company that transformed ... “The best fried chicken I know comes with a TV dinner,” Barbra Streisand told the New Yorker in 1962. By the 1970s, competition ...

Over ten million TV dinners were sold ... a year on frozen meals. Swanson, in response to increasing demand, expanded its food repertoire, adding meatloaf, fried chicken, Salisbury steak, carrots ...

chicken pot pies and TV Dinners. In April 1955, Swanson merged its more than 4,000 employees and 20 plants with the Campbell Soup Co., which ultimately dropped the famous TV Dinner label ...

But Swanson`s TV Dinner gave birth to the ”prepared frozen ... By 1959, dinners were the top sellers among frozen foods. Beef and chicken followed turkey into the marketplace.