1950s: Swanson TV Dinners. Although TV dinners first came about in 1945 when Maxson Food Systems, Inc. manufactured them for military and civilian airplane passengers, they didn't become prominent ...

In 2015, ConAgra bought Pinnacle Foods and reintroduced Swanson TV dinners, but, as mentioned above, only in Canada. Read more: Discontinued Costco Grocery Products We Probably Won't Get Back.

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. Swanson TV Dinners, Hot Pockets, and More ...

In 1962 Swanson dropped the "TV Dinners" name to suggest that the meals were good any time of day. To reinforce this point, Swanson Breakfasts were introduced in 1969, ...

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 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.

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 ...

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 ...