Gryphon's Aeire Food Fact - First Tv Dinners

QUESTION: When and how much was the first tv dinner? 

ANSWER: In 1954 C.A. Swanson & Sons  introduced the first TV 
dinner, it was roast turkey with stuffing and gravy, sweet 
potatoes and peas. It sold for 98 cents and came in an aluminum 
tray, so you could just open the box and heat the dinner in 
the oven. (No microwave ovens back then).  Supposedly Gerald 
Thomas came up with the idea when the company had tons of 
leftover turkey from Thanksgiving. The idea for the aluminum 
trays came from the food trays used by airlines. They were an 
immediate success, and Turkey dinners are still the most 
popular Swanson frozen dinner. Swanson stopped calling them 
TV dinners in 1962.


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