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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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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.
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.
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!
