Once the most iconic brand of frozen TV dinners, Swanson has fallen from the limelight. But what actually happened to this paragon of culinary Americana?

From the Swanson TV dinners of the 1950s to the Realgood frozen foods of today, the freezer aisle's stalwarts have evolved over the last several decades.

The first TV dinners were sold as a “frozen meal” by Swanson and Sons in 1953. In a year’s time, Swanson’s sold more than 10 million TV dinners to the public.

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 ...

Swanson took full advantage of this trend, with TV advertisements that depicted elegant, modern women serving these novel meals to their families, or enjoying one themselves.

Vulture has gotten in on the Ron Swanson viral bonanza by commissioning graphic artist Jon Defreest, who recently enjoyed copious amounts of viral success with his Ron Swanson Ben & Jerry’s ...

He changed the way America eats. Gerry Thomas, the food-service salesman who invented the TV dinner, has died at the age of 83. Thomas was working for C.A. Swanson and Sons in 1954 when he was ...