Food History: TV Dinners
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- Опубліковано 14 жов 2024
- The frozen TV dinner is the result of decades of technological advancements and helped end outdated gender roles. Yeah, you read that right.
From frozen Thanksgiving dinners to scorching hot brownies, the TV dinner is the pinnacle of convenience food. But who came up with the idea of putting an entire frozen meal on a tray?
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TV dinners, the meal so great ZZ Top made a song about them.
And a video about them
They used to be pretty great in the 70's and 80's but not anymore you used to get enough food in them to fill you up you could actually call them a meal
My great grandpa loved TV dinners. His favorite was the Salisbury steak dinner. I have fond memories of eating TV dinners while watching old black & white cowboy movies with him.
Don't forget that we put our TV dinners on TV trays so we could eat them in front of the TV! TV everything lol
And now I watch most of my TV on my phone thouphone so the TV that's on the wall doesn't get used very much anymore
Also, turn on the T.V. lamp to avoid the glare on the screen.
TV dinners were a real treat in our 1960s home. Convenience food.
So, I can’t speak to their quality now, but I remember a Kid Cuisine being a triumph of a dinner in 1996. It made me feel like I had won something to be 3 years old and have weird long pizza and corn rather than something home cooked.
I might be a little older than you, I used to get down on the Kids Cuisines when I was around 7 and 8 in early 90’s. I loved them but I am pretty sure the quality, even back then probably sucked. But I bet the price was right.
Back in the 1970s when I was a kid, it was so much fun watching television at night while eating a TV dinner. Today, I prepare my own dinners. Walmart sells the Disposable Aluminum 4 Compartment T.V Dinner Trays with Lid. You get ten for $17. I keep my chest freezer full of them and eat them year-round.
Forget the guys, I’m thanking Betty Cronin for figuring out how to make their ideas actually work.
I can never forget the guys. Bros before ho’s!
JELLO SALAD !!!!!! My rural Midwestern heart is full 😍
Also I’d like to this become a jello salad fan thread
Lime jello cottage cheese salad??
I literally had the exact frozen dinner shown at 10:02 yesterday for dinner. Have you ever done an episode on cooked canned food?
We haven't. What do you have in mind, something like corned beef hash?
@@MentalFloss Spaghetti, ragout, soups, etc...
@@SlyPearTree @Mental Floss ...or take it a step further with Duck Confit, Whole Chicken, even Cheeseburger!
"Tik Tok Burritos"
Tik Tacos was RIGHT THERE!
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I had the same thought and question! 🤣
I think just about everyone has had a tv dinner in their lifetime, good creation
It must be typical North-American, we have some frozen prepared dinners in Europe, but they are not very popular, and this variety is non-existent here.
As an Australian in their late 20's I've never had a TV dinner. The closest I'd say is a frozen meal which is usually something like frozen butter chicken or a carbonara. The difference being all the ingredients were in a bowl together. I've never experienced a frozen meal that has segmented parts like a TV dinner. I'm not sure that don't exist in Australia but they certain aren't common enough that most people have had one.
kid cuisine will always hold a place in my heart
Man, now I have a craving for a TV dinner.
The presentation was *sublime* for this one. Well done!
No mention of the original Swanson TV dinner packaging? With the box showing a TV-screen-shaped cutout and the food inside it?
"Who bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen." - Woody Allen.
I remembered how they invented TV dinners on Murdoch Mysteries before there was television.
I heard a woman was the actual creator of the TV dinner, in a tin tray in a museum somewhere has it I seen it on an episode on unwrapped on Food network
And the Swanson family gave the world Tucker Carlson.
Fantastic non sequitur! WTF does that have to do with food history?
@@phife1878 just a not-so-fun fact
@@EvanRustMakes
He can't keep getting away with this!
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Based.
"from the freezer to the oven to the table" was, if memory serves, part of the Corningware jingle.
The original tv dinners tasted better than the ones you get now. No corn syrup or highly processed food.
I miss the foil trays for toaster ovens to actually cook the food. Microwaving for me is either underdone or hardened.
Let's hear it for Thomas Midgley Jr.
I think a history of soda or soft drinks would be interesting, I always thought about how that started.
Swanson used to have a veal parmesan dinner and it was so good. When I was 10 anyways.
I still call ALL microwaveable meals "T.V. Dinners" lol
Spare a thought for the first commercial freezing of meat sent to Great Britain by us Aussies too... way back before 1900
"🎤...The coolerator was crammed with TV dinnahs an-a jinjah ale..🎤"
Block Chain Burritos. Could mean several things.
Winner, winner, textured vegetable dinner!
I love the puns
I'm hungry now.
I damn close to lived on those from 1992 to 2008 but haven't had one since then
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TV Dinners are one of the greatest things ever created
Loving the nail polish
I love this series
Groovy content!:)
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I can't help but wondering at the 5% of Married women working figure.
In many industries, female employees were preferred. Also, Black Married Women regularly worked outside the home as servants and cleaners. Were they EVER counted?!
Also, please note at the lack of Black faces in the period ads!!!
African-Americans made up (and still make up) a small portion of the American population. That 5% of married women is probably mostly black, as black families were almost always poorer (thanks to Jim Crow laws and other examples of systemic racism in American history) and required multiple incomes to survive.
Honestly where do they ever get their % from anyways? I've never been asked or a part of any survey, nor has anyone I know, yet they'll claim X% of whatever exists or X% of people did/got this? I call B.S
@@JamesAutoDude Census. You know who's working and who's married. Pretty easy to compile.
@@JamesAutoDude Dude, how are you a functioning adult when you can't figure something as simple as this out?
@@JamesAutoDude
Racism bad.
TV Dinner by the Pool, I´m so glad I finished School.
Having to explain what "prime time" was to people. I know it's reasonable, but gawd do I feel old now...
They really just need to give the cringy lame jokes a rest.
Cringy and lame? What are you, 12?
They're witty and non-threatening jokes.
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I rarely eat the brownie.
Modern hipsters to women's lib: "You gave up gardening so you could get a job?!"
"Muh patriarchy!"
Are you related to Tim Dodds?
Those brownies were sooo bad! 😂
What mainly sucks about TV dinners is, it went from actual food to chemical food 😩
what ever you do, never drink dihydrogen monoxide!
All things are chemicals, organic or not.
We still call TV dinners... TV dinners.
Around the same time domestic appliances were freeing women from the responsibilities of the kitchen, TVs were freeing families from having to talk to each other.
Hahaha radios and newspapers already existed
no, I'd say watching tv together actually encourages my family to talk a lot more! we can each be working our own hobby or eating with a show on that we watch and enjoy all together that we can ause and talk about ect. We all have adhd or autism, so it helps us to focus on interacting with each other rather than isolating in our own thing accidentaly. And to the other commentators point, people already did this with radio, books and newspapers before they had home televisions.
If you guys are ever hiring for someone to make new thumbnails please contact me! I love this channel and I think you guys could get more views if the thumbnails were better!
The jokes aren't working.
I seen her frozen tictok taco.
At 4:35, what the hell is that horn thing going into that switchboard operator's chest?
I believe that's the mouthpiece she would've talked into (a bit more cumbersome than air pods).
Its not heat proof....
do I spy pretty blue nails?
TV dinners are out of the question without recycling the aluminum.
Remember, if there are ever “tik tok burritos” blame Justin!
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Our family had Banquet TV dinners, I prefer those over Swanson.
Betty Cronin > Betty Crocker
When does Tucker Carlson fit in as a benefactor to the Swanson empire?
well he's a half-frozen non-nutritious piece of vegetable matter, and his skull is full of irradiated meat-mush... and somehow that's worth money to some people!
@@MemphiStig
He's not Muslim.
His stepmother was the Swanson heiress and he has Swanson as a middle name
What happened to John hosting these? These hosts are boring af
Why is this guy always doing that weirdo trump impression in every video lmao
First
They have yet to make a TV dinner that's a 'full meal in a tray'. A good first course, maybe.
dude thanks I just sold the name tic tok Burritos to Taco Bell for one million dollars thanks thank you I'm a millionaire and you're not haha
just kidding
You didn’t have to go deep, but you shoulda at least mentioned Tucker Carlson.
Why is this whole thing about women it’s a TV dinner
because he's giving accurate historical context as to why they became so popular. did you not watch the video?
Home cooked meals are so much better!!! Women need to go go back to doing that!!!