Swanson's original frozen TV dinner consisted of a compartmentalized ... mothers and children were gobbling up the company's frozen chicken pot pie while watching TV. He recalled to the Omaha ...

Ultimately, it was the Swanson company that transformed ... “The best fried chicken I know comes with a TV dinner,” Barbra Streisand told the New Yorker in 1962. By the 1970s, competition ...

And when C.A. Swanson & Sons introduced the TV dinner in 1954 ... than a meatloaf or roast chicken done from scratch. At the risk of trying to read the mind of the kid I was at the time, I ...