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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 frozen TV dinner's origin story begins with a half-million-pound mistake. In 1952, C.A. Swanson & Sons overestimated the number of Thanksgiving turkeys the American public would consume.
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The Swanson Company's first frozen dinner was a turkey dinner; eventually, the company added chicken and beef entrées. [1] With over half of American households owning televisions by the 1950s, the Swanson brothers called their frozen meals "TV dinners," suitable for eating on a folding tray in one's living room while watching television.
A frozen processed foods aisle at a supermarket in Canada This is a list of frozen food brands . Frozen food is food that is frozen from the time it is produced to the time it is either defrosted or cooked by the consumer, or eaten while still frozen.
Morton Frozen Foods' ownership changed several times. Its owners would include the Continental Baking Company, Del Monte [2] (which itself was a division of R.J. Reynolds), and finally ConAgra Foods, [3] which shut down the Crozet plant in 2000. [1] A group of Morton Frozen Foods enthusiasts are attempting to bring some Morton products back.
Frozen products do not require any added preservatives because microorganisms do not grow when the temperature of the food is below −9.5 °C (15 °F), which is sufficient on its own in preventing food spoilage. Long-term preservation of food may call for food storage at even lower temperatures.
Here's what's on the menu for Drew's new frozen dinner line: chicken, meatloaf, pasta and more. (Walmart)