"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
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> On Thu, 05 Feb 2015 16:37:50 -0500, jmcquown wrote:
>
>> On 2/4/2015 4:10 PM, Sqwertz wrote:
>>> On Tue, 3 Feb 2015 14:56:43 -0800 (PST), wrote:
>>>
>>>> The other day I took some frozen turnkey out of the freezer to thaw
>>>> in the fridge. It's some I sliced up from our Thanksgiving bird.
>>>> Yesterday I picked up some frozen vegetables because we were
>>>> running low and I got some peas and carrots because I had not had
>>>> any lately. So today I was thinking about making dinner and
>>>> thought I'd make some mashed potatoes to go with the turkey and
>>>> peas and carrots. It finally dawned on me I was recreating a TV
>>>> dinner . . . sigh.
>>>>
>>>> I haven't made it yet, but I'm going to.
>>>
>>> Don't forget the dry-assed brownie that sticks to the foil.
>>>
>> I just now read your very timely reply. I was perusing the freezer case
>> at the Family Dollar today as I made my way to the cooler to pick up a
>> gallon of milk. What did I spy but some sort of TV dinner featuring a
>> really big picture of a brownie!
>
> I guess those style of TV dinners don't come in foil any more (how tdo
> you cook them in a regular oven?). But I'm sure the brownie sticks to
> the plastic just as well.
>
> Looks like Bill needs to make "Apple-Cranberry Cobbler" to round out
> his classic 1970's Swanson TV dinner:
>
> <https://redtricom.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/screen-shot-2014-02-19-at-7-24-49-pm.png>
>
> The Swanson's meatloaf and the fried chicken dinners came with the
> nasty brownie.
They've been in oven safe plastic for a long time. I remember feeling very
sorry for some kids when we first moved to Cape Cod. I'd gone to the
commissary to shop and a mom told her kids that they could choose from any
of the dinners that were 88 cents. I think they were Banquet. She
explained to them that they couldn't have anything else because their
household goods hadn't arrived yet and they had no way to cook anything
else. She made them buy enough for two weeks.
I had just gone through about a month of living in motel after motel. I
never once bought a TV dinner or any kind of frozen food and I ate just
fine. This was in the day before bagged salads.