#15: The Classic TV Dinner
Nowadays, the freezer section at your grocery store is filled with frozen single-serve dinners, from fancy, gourmet healthy meals to cheap, budget meals. But back in the day, there was exactly one name for frozen dinners: Swanson, and they invented what came to be known as TV dinners.
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But they didn’t set out to create a new way of making a quick, warm meal. In 1953, the food company accidentally ordered too many turkeys for Thanksgiving—260 tons of extra turkey. The TV dinner was invented to use up all of that extra meat, and it ended up being a huge hit and changing how many of us eat today.
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