What we do know is the dinners were introduced to the public in the early 1950s by C.A. Swanson & Sons after the frozen poultry supplier was left with an excess of turkey. Depending on who you ask ...

Look! Not one -- but two Salisbury Steaks in brown onion gravy. Swanson already put the second helping in." Turkey dinners ...

Maxson. Ultimately, it was the Swanson company that transformed how Americans ate dinner (and lunch)—and it all came about, the story goes, because of Thanksgiving turkey. According to the most ...

the mother of the TV dinner was that old serial procreator, necessity. In 1953, someone at Swanson colossally miscalculated the level of the American appetite for Thanksgiving turkey, leaving the ...

Currently, the event helps fund Dr. Stephen Swanson and his wife ... America for treating one baby for two weeks. The Spring Turkey Dinner helps fund their work. In the past, it helped send ...