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	TV dinner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The TV dinner is an American invention developed by Gerry Thomas in 1954.
		TV Dinners were later celebrated in a song of the same name by ZZ Top on their album Eliminator.
		TV dinners, as well as canned soups and broths, are often criticized for having an overabundance of sodium, usually in the form of table salt or soy sauce.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/TV_dinner (693 words)

	Fifties Web Pop History - TV Dinner (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		The first TV dinner featured turkey, corn bread dressing and gravy, buttered peas and sweet potatoes.
		The 5,000 dinners proved to be a gross underestimation.
		Turkey is still the most popular Swanson TV dinner, except in Fort Worth-Dallas, where fried chicken is the favorite.
	www.fiftiesweb.com /pop/tv-dinner.htm (218 words)

	The Seattle Times: Nation & World: Gerry Thomas, 83, creator of TV Dinners, dies
		TV Dinners creator Gerry Thomas displays a present-day version of his invention at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz. He died of cancer on Monday at age 83.
		The TV Dinner fit in with societal changes at the time, when more women were entering the work force and had less time to cook, he said.
		Thomas recalled that the inspiration for the TV Dinner came when he was visiting a distributor, spotted a metal tray and was told it was developed for an experiment in the preparation of hot meals on airliners.
	seattletimes.nwsource.com /html/nationworld/2002393189_dinnerobit21.html (462 words)

	Who “invented” the TV dinner? Everyday Mysteries:Fun Science Facts from the Library of Congress)
		At 50, TV Dinner is Still Cookin - This article was printed in the Christian Science Monitor on November 10, 2004.
		'TV Dinner' Reheated for 45th Anniversary - From CNN March 31, 1999 this article honors Gerry Thomas as the inventor of a meal on a tray.
		TV Dinners Celebrate 50th Amid Changing Channels, Time - This is an article that appeared in the Courier-Post out of Cherry Hill, NJ on November 25, 2004.
	www.loc.gov /rr/scitech/mysteries/tvdinner.html (960 words)

	TV dinner controversy lingers after death of PV man
		But Thomas' role in inventing the Swanson TV Dinner, disputed for at least two years, was re-ignited upon his passing July 18 at age 83 after a battle with cancer.
		Her late husband, a former Paradise Valley town councilman, never made money off his link to TV Dinners, she said, but simply reveled in the limelight when Swanson brought him out of retirement in 1999 to celebrate the TV dinner's "45th anniversary,'' and even the timing of that event was in dispute.
		Researchers from the TV show "Hollywood Squares" some years ago tried to verify the "father of Chunky Soup," and Faulkner told them it was a team of Campbell's employees led by the research and development director.
	www.azcentral.com /community/scottsdale/articles/0811tvdinner-ON.html (899 words)

	Thomas, TV dinner's creator, dies at 83 - billingsgazette.com
		The TV dinner fit in with societal changes at the time, when more women were entering the work force and did not have the time to spend all day preparing dinner, Thompson said.
		In a 1999 Associated Press interview, Thomas recalled that the inspiration for the TV dinner came when he was visiting a distributor, spotted a metal tray and was told it was developed for an experiment in the preparation of hot meals on airliners.
		The TV dinner drew "hate mail from men who wanted their wives to cook from scratch like their mothers did," Thomas said, but it got him a bump in pay to $300 a month and a $1,000 bonus.
	www.billingsgazette.com /index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2005/07/21/build/nation/57-tv-dinner-thomas.inc (548 words)

	TV Dinner
		He felt about TV dinner desserts the opposite of how he felt about TV dinner macaroni -- to end on the overcooked crust would ruin the whole effect, but to start with the overcooked crust wouldn't feel like eating dessert at all.
		Ronny wasn't allowed to watch TV during dinner, except on the nights that dinner came served in a partitioned foil tray.
		Ronny had noticed, in that part of his mind that took things in even when he wished it wouldn't, that his mom served TV dinner when she wanted to be left alone, and that she wanted to be left alone when she looked like she was feeling sad.
	www.noshame.org /scripts/marcus011221b.htm (934 words)

	Prairie Fare: Dinner with TV Influences Overall Nutrition
		TV dinners came on the market in the mid-‘50s, but officially became “frozen dinners” in the ‘60s.
		The inventor of TV dinners followed the example of airline meals, using compartmentalized aluminum trays.
		Nearly all U.S. households (98 percent to be exact) have at least one television, and the TV is on at least 7 1/2 hours daily in the average home, according to research from Nielson media research.
	www.ext.nodak.edu /extnews/newsrelease/2005/041405/03prairi.htm (654 words)

	Obit sparks debate over TV Dinner creator - Boston.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		This much is certain: When C.A. Swanson and Sons began selling a frozen turkey dinner with peas and sweet potatoes, the housewives of baby boom America snapped them up, and the TV Dinner, with its three-compartment aluminum tray, soon became a symbol of postwar consumer society.
		PHOENIX --This much is certain: When C.A. Swanson and Sons began selling a frozen turkey dinner with peas and sweet potatoes, the housewives of baby boom America snapped them up, and the TV Dinner, with its three-compartment aluminum tray, soon became a symbol of postwar consumer society.
		Some smaller companies were selling frozen dinners on aluminum trays in the early 1950s, but it was not until Swanson's TV Dinner hit supermarket shelves that tens of millions of the tray dinners were served up in American living rooms.
	www.boston.com /news/odd/articles/2005/08/04/obit_sparks_debate_over_tv_dinner_creator (667 words)

	Tv dinner information online from yourtvnews.info (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		TV Dinner Club in need of a house For a taste of what it was like, the TV Dinner Club is a feast.
		Brothers 'shot TV dinner couple' A couple were blasted to death as they settled down for an evening meal in their isolated Cornish bungalow, a court hears.
		TV Dinners in the Fifties Gather around the Television Set: The Birth of the TV Dinner.
	www.yourtvnews.info /tv_dinner.html (3797 words)

	Microsoft TV Dinner I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Dinners are only available from registered outlets, and only the chicken variety is currently produced.
		The box for the TV dinners is so large that it will not fit in many smaller freezers, and the shape prevents the storage of any other brand of dinners.
		Microsoft dinners are often not compatible with other dinners in the freezer, causing your freezer to self-defrost.
	ifaq.wap.org /computers/mstvdinner1.html (371 words)

	CNN Food Central: 'TV dinner' reheated for 45th anniversary -- March 31, 1999
		Swanson's TV dinner was introduced in 1954 as a frozen meal in a three-compartment tray
		HOLLYWOOD (CNN) -- The food company executive whose bright idea put left-over turkey on an aluminum tray and called it a "TV dinner," was honored in Hollywood Tuesday as part of the 45th anniversary of Swanson's original frozen meal.
		At its debut in 1954, Swanson's TV dinner was embraced by consumers who were excited over television itself, which was still a new medium.
	www.cnn.com /FOOD/news/9903/31/tv.dinner (614 words)

	ABC News: TV Dinner Inventor Gerry Thomas Dies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		TV dinner innovator Gerry Thomas displays a present day version of his invention at his home in this Oct. 25, 1999 file photo, in Paradise Valley, Ariz. Thomas died Monday, July 18, 2005 Terry Crowley at Messinger Mortuary said Wednesday.
		The first Swanson TV Dinner turkey with corn bread dressing and gravy, sweet potatoes and buttered peas sold for about $1 apiece and could be cooked in 25 minutes at 425 degrees.
		Ten million dinners were sold in the first year of national distribution.
	abcnews.go.com /US/wireStory?id=959466&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 (447 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Americas \| Death of a 'TV dinner' salesman
		The TV dinner's runaway success led to a pay rise for Mr Thomas, booming business for Swanson and a culinary trend of convenience which shows little sign of falling from favour.
		The advent of the TV dinner coincided with a changing society where women were increasingly going to work and had less time to cook, he told AP.
		"Some people claim the TV dinner was the first step toward breaking up the American family because it made it possible for everybody to eat in a 'modular' way," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/hi/americas/4703523.stm (743 words)

	The Man Who Gave America a Taste Of the Future
		TV Dinners were never any good, but they were always cool.
		If you are of a certain age, you remember your first encounter with a TV Dinner almost as an encounter with the modern world itself.
		Thanks to the TV Dinner (and its accessory, the TV tray), the household center of gravity moved from the dining room to the "family room" or den, or wherever the television was regally ensconced.
	www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072102249.html (1083 words)

	Dinner: Who put meals on ice first? \| ajc.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Inventing the TV dinner would seem to qualify for a mention in Esquire magazine's famed Dubious Achievement Awards.
		Perhaps because TV dinners occupy such iconic status in American pop culture, even the Library of Congress has lent its considerable heft to finding an answer.
		He is "inexorably linked" to the TV dinner, Faulkner says, but beyond that — well, it was a long time ago, and Swanson frozen dinners and their archives have moved on to other corporate owners.
	www.ajc.com /news/content/living/0805/06dinner.html (508 words)

	At 50, TV dinner is still cookin' \| csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		In 1954, more than 25 million TV dinners were served in front of 33 million television sets in living rooms across America.
		As Americans mark the 50th anniversary of the sale of the first TV dinner, the concept of a convenient frozen meal has become ingrained in the culture.
		For 66 percent of families, the act of eating in front of the TV screen, which Swanson was the first to capitalize on, has been syndicated and is rerun nightly.
	www.csmonitor.com /2004/1110/p11s01-lifo.html (1336 words)

	TV dinner argument heats up - Culture - The Washington Times, America's Newspaper (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		PHOENIX - This much is certain: When C.A. Swanson & Sons began selling a frozen turkey dinner with peas and sweet potatoes, the housewives of America snapped them up, and the TV dinner, with its three-compartment aluminum tray, soon became a symbol of postwar consumer society.
		So when Gerry Thomas, the Arizona retiree often credited with inventing the TV dinner, died last month, it was widely reported as the passing of the man behind a piece of 20th-century Americana.
		She said she does not understand how he came to be touted as the creator of the TV dinner.
	www.washtimes.com /culture/20050808-092503-4317r.htm (403 words)

	Tv Dinner Cartoons
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	FOCUS - TV Dinners: A Milestone in Food Marketing (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		But after a year, the turkey TV dinner was changed to white-bread dressing and white mashed potatoes.
		According to Wagner, one of the keys to the frozen TV dinner was that each item in the tray was blanched at a different rate so that when the dinner was finally cooked to eat, the entire meal was ready at the same time.
		Many Americans assumed TV dinners were to be eaten in front of the TV so a whole new era of dining culture began.
	www.fb.org /views/focus/fo2002/fo1007.html (595 words)

	Single Man's Guide to TV Dinners
		Since typically 2-3 images are featured without captions, the consumer is left to use his or her imagination to fill in the details of the storyline.
		Although the setting isn't exactly formal, there appears to be wine on the table along with their TV dinners.
		It was refreshing to see a new area of international cuisines present in the TV dinner aisle of my local grocer.
	www.yarayara.com /tv (686 words)

	TV Dinner
		My earliest TV memory is watching an old "Hercules" cartoon on a surprisingly small, round cornered screen housed in a large wooden console.
		Within reaching distance was the TV tray, which held a cold mug full of ice and Pepsi, so cold there was sweat on the outside of the
		Somehow, when we watched our fl and white TV's, we saw the infinite shades of grey in between, and that was enough.
	www.humoriste.freeservers.com /TVDinner.htm (772 words)

	TV dinner debate: Tale of late PV man frosts detractors
		But Thomas' role in inventing the Swanson TV Dinner, disputed for at least two years, was reignited upon his passing July 18 at age 83 after a battle with cancer.
		A Los Angeles Times report in 2003 questioned Thomas' TV dinner credentials when the groundbreaking convenience food celebrated its "50th anniversary." The newspaper again raised the issue upon his death.
		Thomas told The Republic in 1999 that he had dreamed up the three-compartment tray - a fourth compartment was added later - and coined the TV Dinner name in an effort to market Swanson's surplus of frozen turkeys.
	www.azcentral.com /rsslinks/88141 (908 words)

	Microsoft TV Dinner
		If you have a Unix oven, insert the dinner, enter the ingredients of the dinner (found on the package label), the weight of the dinner, and the desired level of cooking and press start.
		Be forewarned that Microsoft dinners may crash, in which case your oven must be restarted.
		Microsoft dinners may be incompatible with other dinners in the freezer, causing your freezer to self-defrost.
	www.angelfire.com /mi/hisplace/joke68.html (347 words)

	USATODAY.com - Gerry Thomas, inventor of the TV dinner, dies at 83 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Gerry Thomas, inventor of the TV dinner, dies at 83
		Thomas, who died in Paradise Valley on Monday after a bout with cancer, was a salesman for Omaha-based C.A. Swanson and Sons in 1954 when he got the idea of packaging frozen meals in a foil tray, divided into compartments to keep the foods from mixing.
		The TV Dinner, Thompson said, is "one of the few things we've got that we actually have the human being who had his fingerprints all over it."
	www.usatoday.com /life/lifestyle/2005-07-20-thomas-death_x.htm (741 words)

	Dinner for Five TV Show - Dinner for Five Television Show - TV.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
		Actor/writer/director Jon Favreau invites four of his celebrity peers to dinner to discuss their experiences, in an homage to the famed Algonquin Roundtable.
		The result is a freewheeling gabfest in which movie industry professionals chat about their projects, past and present, and about life on and off the set.
		Recipient of the 2003 Daytime Emmy Award for "Outstanding Talk Show," The View is ABC Daytime's morning chat fest, featuring a team of five dynamic women of different ages, experiences and...
	www.tv.com /dinner-for-five/show/5755/summary.html (214 words)

	Inventor of the TV dinner dies at age 83
		July 22, 2005, as reported by just-food.com: Dinner time in the 1950s will forever be portrayed one of two ways: smiling mom in apron happily serving mashed potatoes to family of four or teenager with freshly heated TV dinner on TV table sprawled in front of the Ed Sullivan Show.
		Gerry Thomas, the US salesman credited with the invention of the TV dinner has died of cancer at age 83, the BBC reported.
		The TV dinner's runaway success led to a pay rise for Mr.
	www.newfarm.org /news/2005/0705/071505/tv_dinner.shtml (782 words)

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