20 Classic TV Dinners.. Only Gen X Kids Will Remember!
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- Опубліковано 4 лип 2024
- 20 Classic TV Dinners.. Only Gen X Kids Will Remember!
#nostalgia #1970s #tvdinner
Welcome back, folks! Today, we're serving up a slice of Americana, where Swanson's turkey dilemma turned into the iconic TV dinner, altering our dining habits forever. Do you remember battling over the last piece of fried chicken or negotiating peace with peas? Now, let's slide off that aluminum foil and discover those delightfully crispy edges.
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Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
0:26 Swanson
1:31 Hungry Man
2:28 Great Starts
3:30 Banguet
4:37 Stouffer
5:34 Lean Cuisine
6:40 Marie Callender's
7:55 Healthy Choice
8:58 Morton
10:09 Kid Cuisine
11:09 Boston Market
12:13 Michelina's
13:15 Smart Ones
14:19 Chef Boyardee
15:22 Libby's
16:31 Birds Eye
17:28 Tyson
18:17 Ore-Ida
19:11 P.F. Chang
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Even to this day, I still refer to any frozen meal as a "TV Dinner"!!!
Tv dinners, shrinky dinks, spyrograph, watching peanuts every holiday. Man i miss those days.
Remember them well. Some were good but others were “yucky” as I recall. TV dinners were for parents were out. Loved the Salisbury dinner, fried chicken, and all of the desserts!
I still like Stouffer's stuffed peppers once in a while
70 yrs later, I can still feel the burn on my tongue from the dessert..😊
Gen X Kid here! Not only recognize the TV Dinners I also recognize the kid isn't that 'Mikey'? the kid who doesn't like anything. (Life Commercial)
You damn straight....Swanson Salisbury Steak & I still eat them occasionally! - Gen X '69.
Im eating salibury steak watching this
Back when they used the foil trays, sometimes food from one compartment was frozen in with another compartment. Usually it was the peas & carrots or corn frozen in with the apple sauce or with the dessert. It was a surprise when you pulled off the foil top because those compartments usually remained covered during the whole cooking process.
Yes, Hungry Man were my favorites!!! Also, don’t forget about Pot-Pies and Frozen Pizzas!
Thank you for watching @TeddyStrongBear!
For me, there just is nothing better than Stouffer's turkey dinner with the stuffing and mashed potatoes. If you add in their macaroni n' cheese you really have a nice dinner.
I'm 70 and still eating Stouffers lasagna.
This is a great video down memory lane and great to watch while eating.... I do think it's funny though that he complimented Stouffers a ton but didn't know how to pronounce it correctly 😅. Of course he also said "Coolinary" instead of "culinary" too. I had to laugh when he called it "Stow fairs" instead of saying it "Stow furs". It's a legendary company even today. so maybe I'm just weird I found it funny....
So TRUE!! I left a comment about it also BEFORE I saw that you had. I thought it was my ears & had to listen to it like 3 times. “Must not be from around here!” as the saying goes. 😂 ✌🏻
I suspect they don't have an actual person reading the script, but that's just my suspicion. Considering a few times they say company names different ways. It kind of ruins it for me, unfortunately.
The foil pan ones that burnt the shit out of every kid in the 80's😂😂
I grew up poor so I remember getting those as a treat if I did good at school! They definitely don't have the same appeal as they used to.
Thank you for watching @hollypierce3076!
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Before reading these comments I said how much I kind of missed the foil plates.
I remember there was a Swanson tv dinner that had tomato soup in it
Grew up in the 70's . Loved the banquet fish with hot vanilla pudding. Banquet is still the best!
Thanks for watching!
I remember all of them, and have had several of them, love them all!
Thanks for watching @matthrivnak6572 !
Veal parmesan was my favorite. Also the tiny little portion of the apple dessert was yummy!
Kid Cusine was like a treat in my house. Never forget always finding a piece of corn in the brownie
I remember the TV dinners . Growing up in the 70s . It was the best dinner outside of homemade dinners Thank you for the memories. ❤❤❤😊
Glad you enjoyed it
I remember the great starts hungry man Swanson and kid cuisine
Thank you for watching @fluttershyamy!
Im 70 and i had these dinners growing up.❤️
I grew up on Lunchables, Lean Cuisine, and Stouffers. Hungry Man also.
Most X'rs will remember plastic trays. Boomers will remember metal trays.
The food cooked better in the foil...
The TV dinners and Banquet chicken were great meals for us GEN XERS back then now not so much for me
I remember Morton's fried chicken actually being pretty good, it had almost a cornmeal breading to it .🍗
2:37 I really miss these kinds of breakfast meals! 😭 It's up there with McDonald's breakfasts in nostalgia for me!
We almost always had Banquet brand because it was the cheapest,Swanson was a real treat because it had a dessert 😎
As a child in the 1970's, I recall TV dinners (and frozen pizzas) being rather bland back then; glad I've lived long enough to see companies improve so I can enjoy better versions of the things I grew up with. (Overall, Stouffer's is my favorite; never had a bad Stouffer's dinner.)
Generation-Xer here. I still remember those days when eating Life cereal, TV dinners, and those tasty pot pies.
Lean Cuisine is still around today... they're great for microwaveable frozen food
I used to keep several Lean Cuisine meals around for quick lunch grabs heading out the door to work. But I can't afford to spend the money on them anymore. They've become too expensive.
I'm a Boomer, and I certainly remember these from the 60's. My favorite was the Swanson's enchiladas. Bet they don't really taste the way I remember!
Im a boomer too. They were never big enough to make me satisfied. The only one which came close were the fried chicken ones. I was a boy though. Theyd probably be more filling for girls or little 7-8 year old boys.
Think I heard at least 4 different pronunciations of Stouffers none how I learned to say it. Marie Callenders use to be really good, use to be. So was Banquet years ago when they still used aluminum trays. The local IGA store had frozen trays for dinner in the late 1970 that were really good. Real mashed tators tasty meats and fresh vege, probably the best frozen dinners I ever tasted.
I currently eat a lot of these. Marie calendar’s, live off chef boyardee, had kids cuisine all the time as a kid, stoufers lasagna and Mac and cheese. Had swansons and banquet and hungry man for years…. I really like TV dinners a lot actually
My entire late teens and early 20's were a constant parade of Weight Watcher's and Lean Cuisine... I loved the asian ones with the sweet and sour veggies and chicken on rice... it was a constant fight with my weight and eventually my Type 1 diabetes. (auto-immune, insulin dependent)
Thank heavens they tasted ok - even if the diabetes clinic dieticians kept harping on about the increased sugars and salts in them (the flavor had to come from SOMEWHERE!). (rolls eyes)
Working full time in retail, I didn't have the time or energy to cook from scratch every time, and these mostly worked because of the smaller portion size.
Several of these are still around today. Hungry Man, Banquet, Stouffer's, Lean Cuisine, Marie Callender's, Healthy Choice, Kid Cuisine, Boston Market, Michelina's, Smart Ones, we sell all these at the store at which I work. I'm more for Banquet and Stouffer's, but do enjoy the boneless fried chicken Hungry Man meals. And of course, who can forget Tyson frozen chicken and Ore-Ida potato things? I love me some tater tots.
I remember when these went from being the meal you got on an airplane to the meal you heated up in the oven. (We didn't have microwave ovens then).
I am so grateful that my parents insisted we eat REAL food. I am so much the better for it.
I had Stouffer's turkey with stuffing and mashed potatoes for dinner tonight 😋
And it never occurred to us to ask Mom why we were getting pre-made meals; after all, it wasn't like she had a job outside the house or anything (until she did).
With the last few Hungry Man Salsbury Steak dinners I have gotten, the steak had a funky texture that was nothing like meat and my beloved Marie Calander's chicken pot pies were more crust and gravey than chicken. Disappointing.
Hungary-Man was a pound of food but it shrunk like other stuff. Shrunken size/weight effected just about everything like ice cream, chips, cheese, candy bars.
I've had Stouffer's French Bread Pizza, Banquet Fried Chicken & Swanson's Hungry Man Chicken Dinner over the years. Too bad you left out Dinty Moore microwaveable Beef Stew.
I also go for those Ore-Ida microwaveable French Fries.
Drinking game, take a shot everytime he says "ensures" "success" or "convince"
I’m eating one as I watch this video. 😅
I don't think I ever had TV dinners as a kid/teen.
The pf changs frozen meals are my favriot
They seemed to taste better when they were in the foil packaging, but kid-me didn't have the best palate. Then again, things generally do taste better from the oven than a microwave, that's for sure.
My mother would heat up frozen TV dinners for me, my brother, and herself when my father was out of town Mon-Thurs back in the 1950's; she never offered one to him, but we loved 'em. Today, my wife wants a Hungry Man meatloaf dinner (not a Salisbury steak) when I'm not going to be home, but a Marie Callender's meatloaf dinner is a good substitute, just not a satisfying. And I'm still waiting for a frozen dinner that features something other than shrimp (never enough) or processed fish patties.
Tv dinners actually are still around in my area
Most of those tv dinners or frozen foods r not good n don't look like pic on the box lol..
I'm a gen xer but I don't remember having tv dinners often. The serving sizes were very small. More of a snack. Stouffer's Lasagna and Grandmas rice dinner are my current gotos. Only family sized dinners satisfy my appetite.
I'm a boomer. I always looked at them as snacks too. My mom would only buy them when us kids asked her to. They were cheap, at least. I would occasionally eat one for lunch when my mom wasn't home. It would barely hold me to dinner. They'd probably be filling for a 7 or 8 year old, though. My mom would always cook.
Look guys real food ! Aluminum trays were the good stuff. When it changed to plastic tray then the food went to chopped and pressed.
As a kid i loved Swanson Salisbury steak and fried chicken.
Lol yooo this was dinner if Mom couldn't make it home to fix dinner for me my parents would both be at work in the evenings
I ate this junk for 50 years.🍱 I've got 4.5 years whole foods and I feel great.
Tv dinners today suck.. thet were killer back when
I quite like Michelina's frozen pasta.
Banguet i remember eating those as kid thise were good and were the meals i had i also think had brownie one of them they were so dang good i really missed those
I just realized the other day the term "TV Dinner" has gone completely obsolete, like it has no meaning anymore, anything can be a TV dinner, and even TV doesn't mean the same thing it use to
Why dont they have Veal Parmasan TV Dinners anymore they were especially good
What is, or was, your favorite TV Dinner?
Mexican TV dinners were the best! Enchiladas, tamales, spanish rice and refried beans!
Thanks for watching@@denisesmith3544 !
The Swanson's enchiladas was my favorite...in the foil tray; I grew up in the 60s!
That cranberry sauce was a no no 🤢
loved kid cusine and libbyland kids dinners
I'm hungry now !
Baby boo.ers came first!
I'm not a big guy but I feel like a fat ass. I have to eat two hungry man meals to be full
Am I the only person slightly bothered by the way he's pronouncing Stouffer's?
I thought morton tv dinners had the best tasting fried chicken they never should of went out of business many years ago and chef boy ardee complete spaghetti dinner has been gone for many years it should of stayed available also
Funny enough, Swanson is better than Hungry Man in terms of quality and presentation..
Is that Ted Williams narrating?
Stew-fairs 😂
Definitely remember all of these. My cardiologist has advised me to stay away from them now. Has anyone ever read the sodium content on the nutrition label? It’s extremely high!
Please prounce Stoffer's correctly. It's Stoooo-fers not Stuffers.
Shit I forgot Morton's
Stow-fers. Lol
It's pronounced STOFFERS! LONG OOOOOO
Have you ever seen a Stouffer's commercial? Cause if you have, you'd know yer pronouncing it wrong and it is grating to the ear.
I can still remember the taste of swansons beans and franks tv dinners .
Stew fairs?
When it says Libby's Libby's Libby's on the Label Label Label You will Like It Like It Like It on your Table Table Table...
Great video. But change up the piano rhythm playing half way through the video. Too monotonous and annoying after 5 minutes. Thanks.
Just don't look at the amount of salt in their meals.
Nothing wrong with that
Pf changs dident exsist in the 70s
Man is pronouncing stouffers wrong fix the video he ruins it...😢
After reading the ingredients, you wouldn't call it home style. 😷
I AM 71 AND I STILL EAT HUNGERY MAN ALL THE TIME
Wtf is steawfors
😂😂😂!