Re: A Brief History of the TV Dinner

 > JAB wrote:
 > A Brief History of the TV Dinner
 > ....
 > ....
 > ....
 > According to the most widely accepted account, a Swanson salesman
 > named Gerry Thomas conceived the company's frozen dinners in late
1953
 > when he saw that the company had 260 tons of frozen turkey left
over
 > after Thanksgiving, sitting in ten refrigerated railroad cars. (The
 > train's refrigeration worked only when the cars were moving, so
 > Swanson had the trains travel back and forth between its Nebraska
 > headquarters and the East Coast "until panicked executives
could
 > figure out what to do," according to Adweek.) Thomas had the
idea to
 > add other holiday staples such as cornbread stuffing and sweet
 > potatoes, and to serve them alongside the bird in frozen,
partitioned
 > aluminum trays designed to be heated in the oven. Betty Cronin,
 > Swanson's bacteriologist, helped the meals succeed with her
research
 > into how to heat the meat and vegetables at the same time while
 > killing food-borne germs.
 > ....
 > ....
 > As millions of white women entered the workforce in the early
1950s,
 > Mom was no longer always at home to cook elaborate meals--but now
the
 > question of what to eat for dinner had a prepared answer. Some men
 > wrote angry letters to the Swanson company complaining about the
loss
 > of home-cooked meals. For many families, though, TV dinners were
just
 > the ticket. Pop them in the oven, and 25 minutes later, you could
have
 > a full supper while enjoying the new national pastime: television.
 > ....
 > ....
 > In 1950, only 9 percent of U.S. households had television sets--but
by
 > 1955, the number had risen to more than 64 percent, and by 1960, to
 > more than 87 percent. 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.
"The best
 > fried chicken I know comes with a TV dinner," Barbra Streisand
told
 > the New Yorker in 1962.
 >
 >
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/brief-history-tv-dinner-180976039/

Portable
food was actually the invention of space-age, not the working woman.
The idea for astronauts in space to eat.

Yes portable food mothers came a thing. In reality women ( like my
mother and many before ) would seek the easier path, and believe it
would be better. Meanwhile men would rather not stray from the course.


This is why you see tons of "Best friends" within grannies
circle but in reality she is a closeted lesbian. Reason why my and
many other mothers was silently predator by Lesbians who claimed to be
there friend or co-worker. 

The aged old question "boxed Juice or Juicing your own"
 

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