By the early 1940s, the idea of dinners ... food sales. So Vlasic used the 45th anniversary of C.A. Swanson and Sons as a ...

Swanson was the original TV dinner classic, but it's not the freezer aisle mainstay it used to be. Here's where it went, and how it got its start.

A new form of entertainment and a wandering trainload of frozen turkey triggered a convenience food boom ... airline meals “Strato-Plates,” Swanson introduced America to its “TV dinner ...

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