The little-known origin of TV dinners

For THE First of all little decades After Birdseye invention, frozen food had A very limit audience. Big developments were do close THE END of the Second World War When Maxson Food Systems Inc. developed A double of frozen meal For members of THE military. Double "Strato-Plates", they were just What you would have to wait for Since A TV dinner: A Plastic plate with three compartments, A For meat, A For vegetables, And A For potatoes, but he was destined has be eat on planes, not In in front of THE tube. A similar innovation Since THE 40s, Jack The fisherman FridgiDinners, was commercialized has bars And taverns that doesn't to have A complete kitchen Or cooking personal.

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In 1949, A pair of brothers Since Pittsburgh based Frozen Dinners Inc., And In five years, they sold on 2.5 million meal has consumers In THE East WE. However, THE TV dinner do A breakthrough In 1953, When THE Based in Nebraska Swanson business experimented A catastrophic gap In Thanksgiving sales, exit them with A surplus of 260 tons of turkey. A business executive hit on THE bright idea has wrap servings of THE left over bird with sides of corn bread Padding And soft potatoes And sell them In aluminum trays For easy reheating In THE oven. A bacteriologist appointed Betty Cronin was instrumental In portion Swanson Perfect THE method SO that clients could avoid of food origin diseases. However, When he come has THE executive WHO had This idea In THE First of all place, things are not SO clear.

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