TV Dinners

[Okiepan]

So who remembers those tiny aluminum trays that one would put in the oven an wait about an hour for that delicious TV Dinner , The big thing was when a desert was added.

Guess we are showing our Age .

 

Which one was your favorite ?

[Eyesa Horg]

Chicken pieces. Or mystery chunks as I call em!!

[Rye Miles #13621]

Turkey dinner with mashed potatoes and gravy and peas, I think they had some kind of cherry thing for desert.

[Forty Rod SASS 3935]

I remember them well.  They were better than the war surplus crap we so often got in the school cafeteria.  (I still can't eat stewed tomatoes. potato soup, anything made with "processed" eggs, pea soup, or SPAM.)

 

Don't know that I had a favorite.  Mom always "upgraded" the TV dinners with something she fixed herself.

 

Clarence Birdseye deserves a monument somewhere for his contribution to easily prepared single serving meals.

[Cypress Sun]

1 minute ago, Rye Miles #13621 said:

Turkey dinner with mashed potatoes and gravy and peas, I think they had some kind of cherry thing for desert.

 

This one and the one with the beans and hotdogs, beanie weenie?

 

Just because I'm prone to at least one masochistic action every few years, I bought a Swanson turkey tv dinner. Not even close to being the same thing. Talk about mystery meat!

[Tooky Slim]

I used to love the Fried Chicken, with the apple and cinnamon dessert...hated the artificial mashed potatoes 

[Edward R S Canby, SASS#59971]

When my father's trucking business went bankrupt my mother took a job to supplement the family's income and had no time to cook.  My siblings and I ate many TV dinners that were easy to prepare.  I liked the Salisbury Steak (a true mystery meat).  I don't eat TV dinners now but do buy some healthier frozen entries for our travel trailer when on the road for matches.  There are a few that do not have excessive salt.

[Subdeacon Joe]

First would be Salisbury Steak, second choice would be the Turkey Dinner.  But, frankly, I preferred the Banquet Chicken Pot Pie.  

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

Best thing about them was that my mother didn’t cook them, they weren’t boiled and the onions were not burnt, only put em in the oven and took em out.

[Okie Sawbones, SASS #77381]

[T.K.]

My Mother was a religious cook......

Dinner was either a "Bloody sacrafice"

Or a "Burnt Offering"!

[Red Gauntlet , SASS 60619]

When we'd go out on Saturday nights, we'd leave the five kids with Banquet TV dinners of various types, mostly chicken. 99 cents per back then. The kids loved 'em and remember them well decades later.

[Abilene Slim SASS 81783]

Salisbury Steak

[Sixgun Seamus]

Right out of high school I worked in a steel mill in the carberizing and case hardening department of heat treat.  One of the furnaces was an "aging" furnace that was a steel mesh belt about 10 feet wide and probably 50 feet long. It moved the treated steel slowly through a 350° temperature.  None of the guys in the department ever ate a cold meal for lunch. We would slide TV Dinners, Pot Pies or whatever they wanted heated back onto the belt about a half hour before lunch. Voila! Hot lunch. Sometimes on midnight shift the millwrights would bring in big pans of food to cook and we would have a feast. They cooked whatever game was in season in addition to things like corn on the cob and even pierogies.

[Marshal Mo Hare, SASS #45984]

No longer a foil tray, today’s equivalent is a plastic tray that’s about 5”x6”.

[Barry Sloe]

I loved going to the movies in town,  that meant I got to stay at my grandparents house.  Usually it was the Swanson fried chicken dinner.  Great food for a kid. 

 

BS

[Rye Miles #13621]

Stouffer's has some pretty darn good tv dinners.

https://www.goodnes.com/stouffers/products/?category=18316

 

[Cypress Sun]