Swanson already put the second helping in." Turkey dinners had double the amount of meat, and fried chicken ones came with ...

In the early 1960s, Swanson introduced a TV dinner that came with three pieces of fried chicken, potatoes whipped with milk and butter, and "tender" mixed vegetables. Later in the decade ...

The Swanson brothers` three-pronged attack ... Cronin, promoted to director of product development, was asked to create a fried chicken dinner in which the meat, the vegetables and the potatoes ...

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 ...

“The best fried chicken I know comes with a TV ... including such questionable options as Swanson’s take on a “Polynesian Style Dinner,” which doesn’t resemble any meal you will see ...

It looks like a steamboat gear with some flowers wrapped around it. 4. Swanson - Fried Chicken TV Dinner: This one actually looks good. We would legitimately purchase and eat this. However ...

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 ...

And the convenience of frozen food made it all possible. What was once a special treat — I remember Swanson fried chicken dinners on a tray in front of Sunday night television — is now a main ...