Posted: 8/30/2015 3:18:47 PM EDT
If you grew up in that era, you remember sitting in front of the TV eating off a TV dinner tray.
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Probably a hell of a lot healthier than the crap we nuke up today. I have stopped eating the frozen meals, although home cooking is a lot more expensive. For some reason I sincerely doubt that. What, turkey gravy with brown die #17 isn't healthy? 
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What, turkey gravy with brown die #17 isn't healthy?
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Probably a hell of a lot healthier than the crap we nuke up today. I have stopped eating the frozen meals, although home cooking is a lot more expensive. For some reason I sincerely doubt that. What, turkey gravy with brown die #17 isn't healthy?
Looks like they use a turkey-like product now. I remember the meat portion actually being from an animal not a grinder/binder. The fish was my favorite |
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We had them a couple of times a week, but not the turkey. Dad had an arrangement where he would go to the back door of the kitchen at the hotel (small town, one hotel) after church with a picnic basket which they would load with turkey & trimmings for just a few bucks. We would get several meals from it during the week.
Small town legends: I dated a horse chick in high school whose Dad was called "Pistol" Pete. Story was he and a bunch of friends were in that hotel playing poker and he got drunk and shot (at?) the hands of the court house clock across the street. As to whether he actually hit the hands is subject to debate. He later raised me to Master Mason. The TV Dinners were usually beef or ham. Eating in front of the TV was verboten in our house. We always sat at the dinner table. |
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Looks like they use a turkey-like product now. I remember the meat portion actually being from an animal not a grinder/binder. The fish was my favorite Quoted:
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Probably a hell of a lot healthier than the crap we nuke up today. I have stopped eating the frozen meals, although home cooking is a lot more expensive. For some reason I sincerely doubt that. What, turkey gravy with brown die #17 isn't healthy?
Looks like they use a turkey-like product now. I remember the meat portion actually being from an animal not a grinder/binder. The fish was my favorite Yes, my post was accurate. Let's see the ingredient list compared to today's comparable frozen dinners. |
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Probably a hell of a lot healthier than the crap we nuke up today. I have stopped eating the frozen meals, although home cooking is a lot more expensive. For some reason I sincerely doubt that. What, turkey gravy with brown die #17 isn't healthy?
Looks like they use a turkey-like product now. I remember the meat portion actually being from an animal not a grinder/binder. The fish was my favorite Yes, my post was accurate. Let's see the ingredient list compared to today's comparable frozen dinners. The frozen dinners my wife eats look to be pretty clean, and I am not intimately familiar with the ingredients of the TV dinners I ate 40 years ago. Your claim, your move. |
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The frozen dinners my wife eats look to be pretty clean, and I am not intimately familiar with the ingredients of the TV dinners I ate 40 years ago. Your claim, your move. Quoted:
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For some reason I sincerely doubt that. What, turkey gravy with brown die #17 isn't healthy?
Looks like they use a turkey-like product now. I remember the meat portion actually being from an animal not a grinder/binder. The fish was my favorite Yes, my post was accurate. Let's see the ingredient list compared to today's comparable frozen dinners. The frozen dinners my wife eats look to be pretty clean, and I am not intimately familiar with the ingredients of the TV dinners I ate 40 years ago. Your claim, your move. I will say that with today's greater technology in food processing, we were better off 40 years ago. 40 years ago, there was actual meat in the dinners, not like the frozen pink slime/mashed assholes and intestinal leftovers we have today, to maintain a certain profit level. |
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I will say that with today's greater technology in food processing, we were better off 40 years ago. 40 years ago, there was actual meat in the dinners, not like the frozen pink slime/mashed assholes and intestinal leftovers we have today, to maintain a certain profit level. Honestly I looked and didn't find any nutritional information on the old dinners, but I do know the ones my wife eats have pieces of whole white meat chicken, real beef, etc. |
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Quoted: If you grew up in that era, you remember sitting in front of the TV eating off a TV dinner tray.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzlkO8LIWrs |
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Yes, my post was accurate. Let's see the ingredient list compared to today's comparable frozen dinners. Quoted:
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Probably a hell of a lot healthier than the crap we nuke up today. I have stopped eating the frozen meals, although home cooking is a lot more expensive. For some reason I sincerely doubt that. What, turkey gravy with brown die #17 isn't healthy?
Looks like they use a turkey-like product now. I remember the meat portion actually being from an animal not a grinder/binder. The fish was my favorite Yes, my post was accurate. Let's see the ingredient list compared to today's comparable frozen dinners. Good Point. I'd bet that most of the word's on Today's ingredient label were not in the Dictionary in 1952, when these came out. I was born in 1960, I can remember to age 2.5 or so, I vividly remember the heavy foil, liked salisbury steak the best, mmm-hmmm, greasy gravy. And as another posted, the center-crater of the mashed potato's never got hot! |
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All of them were nasty and disgusting. They made the food taste like aluminum. The gravy had a very strange chemical taste. The peas also tasted funny. But a TV dinner was better than being hungry and it was slightly better than a pot pie.
There were a lot of quick meal options that I thought were way better than a TV dinner. Grilled cheese sandwich and a cup of Campbels tomato soup for example. |