Swanson TV dinners did not originally include sweet ... The company had a few options, most notably an enchilada dinner and a "Mexican style dinner" that included a tamale. Both came with refried ...

Swanson got a bit more creative around 1967 with TV dinners that seemed quite loosely inspired by the culinary traditions of other cultures. These included German, Polynesian, Italian, Mexican ...

I present to you the Swanson TV dinner. TV dinners were something that parents often served as a “quick meal.” These were usually reserved for evenings when Mom didn’t feel much like cooking ...

The TV dinner’s origin story goes like this: In the fall of 1953, Omaha-based C.A. Swanson & Sons, which produced frozen and canned foods, massively overestimated the market for frozen holiday ...

These were made in Omaha by C.A. Swanson and ... first to get the dinners into thousands of America’s freezers in 1953. The original effort, officially called a “TV Brand Frozen Dinner ...

Whereas Maxson had called its frozen airline meals “Strato-Plates,” Swanson introduced America to its “TV dinner” (Thomas claims to have invented the name) at a time when the concept was ...

Nov. 4 -- — In honor of Swanson's TV dinner turning 50, Good Housekeeping magazine staffers tested four frozen single-serve turkey dinners and four frozen single-serve Salisbury steak dinners to ...

The term TV dinner, or more accurately "TV Brand Frozen Dinner," has been a registered trademark to C.A. Swanson & Sons since 1954. According to a 2012 report by AMG Strategic Advisors ...