Swanson's TV Dinner advertisement - 1961
Swanson's TV Dinner advertisement - 1961
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So, wonder what is really "TV Dinner" ? Something you eat while watching TV ? or a dinner that ads shown on TV ?
Yeah, but because of Swanson's frozen food empire, we got to deal with Tucker Carlson...
His birth mother was a hippie that abandoned them with their father when tucker was 6. Not sure of the details, but escaping an abusive relationship was often labeled as "abandoning children" back then.
That abandonment likely started his trouble with women, then his dad married an heiress from the Swanson family, even tho most of that money was in Campbell's stock by then. During that time the new stepmom was fighting her brothers for access to her family trust.
Tucker was 10 around then, and that happening around him likely led to him mixing up a desire for a mother with desire for money, because that was the big thing going on when he got his new mom.
So now we end up with an emotionally stunted bowtied asshole who hates women and loves money
It's been 40 years, but I can still taste those potatoes. Do not want.
I just don't know if there is a mashed potato I didn't like, whether frozen, flakes, or freshly mashed. Now, of course I can decisively tell you which are better than the others, but I'll probably eat any
It's just a pre-made complete meal that you could warm up in the oven. As far as i know, "TV Dinner" was chosen as the name because television was new and cool and high tech and they wanted the association. Kind of like how a million things were Space! branded.
a lot of houses had trays in the living room to pull out at mealtime so everyone could eat and watch but I think everybody just got good at balancing
The TV Dinner that gave us Tucker Carlson.
“In 1979, Carlson's father married Patricia Caroline Swanson, an heiress to Swanson Enterprises, daughter of Gilbert Carl Swanson and niece of Senator J. William Fulbright. Though Patricia remained a beneficiary of the family fortune, the Swansons had sold the brand to the Campbell Soup Company in 1955 and did not own it by the time of Carlson's father's marriage.” — Wikipedia
I ate a lot of those chicken dinners as a kid. On a floral plastic TV tray in front of the television. Usually with a glass of milk in a Tupperware cup (came as a set of four cups with red, yellow, blue, and green ones).
I liked the chicken and salisbury steak way better than that brown turkey loaf stuff.
The boil in bags were so good though. As long as you love salt.
I forgot about the boil in bag meals. Mom didn't buy them too often, but we always had a stack of the frozen dinners around. A latchkey kid staple meal.