But Swanson's clever marketing made TV dinners an instant hit.
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We talked about badger meat, TV dinners, and sad mangoes.
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A tradition is born TV dinners have Thanksgiving to thank.
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I just want to point out we didn't eat TV dinners.
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I would consider all these TV dinners spawn of the original.
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Here's a clue: Meatloaf and fried chicken TV dinners are not healthy.
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Eating TV dinners in Beverly Hills Hotel bungalows with the lights off.
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I've eaten a couple frozen TV dinners and none even came close to resembling food.
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With TV came the first TV dinners, a hallmark of the era's primary food trend: convenience.
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When Queer Eye's Antoni Porowski was a kid, he always wished he could have TV dinners.
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Right now there are more costs built into global shipping than artificial ingredients in frozen TV dinners.
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Frozen veggie bags get a bad rap; they provoke mildly horrifying flash backs of questionable TV dinners past.
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Even subpar TV dinners can seem more attractive than a home-cooked meal because of its immediate nature.
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I do wish the bag contained a little brownie or pudding thing inside it like other TV dinners, though.
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Keeping her protected isn't enough if he's letting her live on Eggos, TV dinners, and soap operas during her crucial development years.
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It's not until the "magical" decade of the 1970s that the long winter of Jell-O and TV dinners begins to turn.
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We peeled back the plastic wrap on Swanson's Hungry-Man TV dinners, and dug into corn niblets, mashed potatoes and fudge brownies.
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Swanson was the first company to name and market the frozen meals as TV dinners, though, which helped make the product a runaway success.
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People went from sitting at home and eating TV dinners to not ever going home and dancing and fucking as much as they could.
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Instead of questionable "TV dinners" or partitioned mystery meat on a tray, you can find real whole foods in the freezer section of your supermarket.
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If they want to save a meal for later, wolverines have been known to cache it in the snow like a hidden trove of TV dinners.
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Then we have our staples, like our TV dinners, so the things that people know and love, that they can come back to time and again.
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Alas, when the big boxy appliance that accompanied those TV dinners started invading living rooms in the mid-1950s, sales of paint-by-numbers kits ebbed.
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It made me realize that all the Quasar color TVs, Swanson TV dinners, Corvettes, and sofa beds in the world didn't mean we were actually making progress.
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Elsewhere in the food chain, suppliers of TV dinners are considering changing ingredients to remove those with the shortest shelf life, according to the Fresh Produce Consortium.
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Meals are similar to TV dinners, only instead of being full of sodium and sugar, these are made with wholesome ingredients, and with finicky eaters in mind.
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Among their prized ceramics by Von Bruenchenhein are fantastical little thrones some six inches tall, constructed from chicken bones salvaged from TV dinners; dazzling crowns; and lacy, tabletop towers.
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But critics say the move would enrich a few private companies, and would limit prisoners to the catalogs' paltry, price-inflated roster of TV dinners, potato chips and Scrabble dictionaries.
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A child of the Depression and a workingwoman of the '50s, my mother was grateful for a freezer and TV dinners that she'd serve as though she were offering us caviar.
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As her nose extends à la Pinocchio, she sneezes out an assortment of noodle-based TV dinners which, we can assume, may be used to feed the Chinese pearl factory workers.
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They had an excellent selection of frozen dinners, including beef and cheese burritos, taquitos, pepperoni or cheese personal pizzas, White Castle sliders, and TV dinners, as well as homemade sandwiches on Wonder Bread.
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Along with associated acts like Bright Eyes and The Faint, they helped reshape the way people thought about Omaha, Nebraska, a town once mostly known for dry-aged steaks, TV dinners, and 311.
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They're also serving what they call TV Dinners, a meat-and-two featuring stuffed cabbage with pine nuts and macadamia-crusted fish sticks, among other proteins, with a choice of a dozen sides.
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In the prosperous post-war era, Americans embraced all manner of processed wonders — TV dinners, frozen pizza, dump-and-stir cake mixes — without much thought to how those products were made, or their nutritional deficiencies.
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Tater tots, TV dinners and frozen spinach, which in decades past served as examples of the food science that made cooking quick and convenient, are no longer in sync with demands from Americans for healthier options.
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There are three meals in "The Naturalists," Jaki McCarrick's new play at Walkerspace: first TV dinners, then an al fresco spread of pasta and salad, and finally slices of bread squashed together in a sad attempt at sandwiches.
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By the end of 2006, Sheffield's The Long Blondes had added their name to the kitchen sink canon, pulling listeners into their world of disappointment, lust, old Hollywood devotion and TV dinners with a curl of vocalist Kate Jackson's lip.
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It is neither a Thanksgiving meal nor a Christmas one, but simply a low-fi American reminder of diners and TV dinners and blankets and comfort itself: soft meat and rich, salty gravy over tight-crumbed bread, with buttery mash and a tang of cranberry.
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Not only is El made to wear his ugly, oversized plaid shirts while being trapped in his gross man-cabin (where he smokes cigarettes while drunk in bed—that is a fire hazard, sir!) eating TV dinners, he literally conspires to keep her and her boyfriend apart simply because it makes him uncomfortable.
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They are thinking of the sixties: the time of the co-op movement's new wave, when people raised on a postwar diet of TV dinners and Wonder bread—not to mention Cold War fears of collectivist politics—started asking where their food came from, and what it meant for the state of the world.
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She believed that everyone secretly preferred baked goods from a bakery, or out of a package, and that the ethos of the lovingly homemade and decorated cake (from a cake mix) was a 23s construct designed to oppress mothers, especially mothers with serious full-time jobs (but of course, she also believed that as a mother with a serious full-time job, as a college professor and writer, she was under special obligation to provide a home-cooked dinner every night, and we were not allowed the TV dinners we begged for).
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He has also released a one-of-its-kind album of full-length versions of some of his most popular advertisement jingles called TV Dinners.
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Swanson is a brand of TV dinners, broths, and canned poultry made for the North American and Hong Kong markets. The TV dinner business is currently owned by Pinnacle Foods, while the broth business is currently owned by the Campbell Soup Company. Current TV dinner products sold under the brand include Swanson's Classics TV dinners and pot pies, and the current broth lineup includes chicken broth and beef broth.
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"TV Dinners - (201) asks Bergen broadcasters: What's in your kitchens?" (201) magazine, November 2009. She died at age 55 on February 20, 2017, following a battle with cancer.
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Tertiary food processing is the commercial production of what is commonly called processed food. These are ready-to-eat or heat-and-serve foods, such as TV dinners and re-heated airline meals.
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Wolfram Siebeck (19 September 1928 – 7 July 2016) was a German journalist, author and food critic. With his satirical style of writing he used to criticise fast food, TV dinners, subsidised agriculture and intensive animal farming.
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A Swanson "Hungry-Man Country Fried Chicken" TV dinner The Swanson & Sons' TV dinner branded frozen meal, sold 5,000 units when it was first introduced in 1953; just one year later, the company had sold over 10,000,000 TV dinners. The company discontinued its successful butter and margarine business to concentrate on a poultry-based line of canned and frozen products. In April 1955, Swanson's 4,000 employees and 20 plants were acquired by the Campbell Soup Company. By 1956, the Swanson brothers were selling 13 million TV dinners annually.
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El Charrito is a brand of Tex-Mex frozen foods. The brand formerly produced TV dinners. The word is Spanish for "little cowboy". The brand was introduced in 1980 by the Campbell Taggart company, who owned the El Chico restaurant chain.
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In the 2000 Whitney Biennial, de Salvo exhibited Face Time, a project that invited the museum's restaurant patrons to eat their meals from the artist's specially designed plates that resembled TV dinners, cosmetic cases and laptop computers.Anderson, Maxwell et al. 2000 Biennial. Exh. cat. New York: The Whitney Museum of American Art, 2000.
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It could be eaten out of the tray. In 1960, Swanson, a subsidiary of the Campbell Soup Company, built a factory in Listowel, Ontario to manufacture TV dinners and other Campbell frozen products for the Canadian market. The electric toothbrush introduced in 1959 has become very popular in Canada since the 1990s.
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Banquet Foods is a subsidiary of ConAgra Foods that sells various food products, including frozen pre-made entrées, meals, and desserts. The brand is best known for its line of TV dinners. Banquet was founded in 1953, with the introduction of frozen meat pies. Banquet first hit the store shelves in 1955, offering frozen dinners.
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Fearnley-Whittingstall's initial television exposure was on Cook on the Wild Side, an exploration of earthy cuisine. His next series was TV Dinners, in which he flambéed and puréed a human placenta to then serve as pâté during one episode. In 2002, he presented the six-episode series, Treats from the Edwardian Country House.
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Then the packaged dinners are placed in a refrigerated storage facility, transported by refrigerated truck, and stored in the grocer's freezer. TV dinners prepared with the aforementioned steps—that is, frozen and packaged properly—can remain in near-perfect condition for a long time, so long as they are stored at -18 °C during shipping and storage.
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Inspired by 1950s science fiction films, I Was a Zombie for the F.B.I. was filmed in black-and-white by Memphis State students and was directed by Marius Penczner. The film's budget was $27,000, which came from the director's Emmy award-winning short film. The stop motion reptilian monster was later used in the director's film TV Dinners.
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Unwrapped, also known as Unwrapped with Marc Summers, is an American television program on Food Network that reveals the origins of sponsored foods. It first aired in June 2001 and is hosted by Marc Summers. The show leads viewers on tours of factories and other food-related locations. Popular subjects include candy, breakfast cereal, snacks, and TV dinners.
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Convenience foods include ready-to-eat dry products, frozen foods such as TV dinners, shelf-stable foods, prepared mixes such as cake mix, and snack foods. Bread, cheese, salted food and other prepared foods have been sold for thousands of years. Other types of food were developed with improvements in food technology. Types of convenience foods can vary by country and geographic region.
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Baker married Carla Swanson, a member of the Swanson TV dinners family, on June 22, 1968, at Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church in Omaha, Nebraska. He has a daughter named Cara and three sons : Jason, Jacob, and Joshua. Joshua pitched in the College World Series for the Rice Owls. Baker is the father-in- law of Major League Baseball player Lance Berkman.
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Parody of: Unknown Easy Chef is the only show on 372 shown to the audience. It features a traditional TV chef (possibly a parody of Jamie Oliver) or Delia Smith, who cooks mostly kiddy favorites like Baked Beans on Toast or TV Dinners, though he presents it in a way that would try to suggest otherwise. He claims to be friends with Gary Rhodes and Gordon Ramsay.
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Thomas' wife described him as a gourmet cook who "never ate TV dinners."Associated Press, "Gerry Thomas, inventor of the TV Dinner, dies at 83," July 20, 2005 In recent years, Thomas' TV Dinner role was disputed by former Swanson and Campbell employees, frozen food industry officials, and Swanson family heirs, who said the product was created by the Swanson brothers, Clarke and Gilbert.Rivenburg, Roy.
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In 1990, Tyson Foods launched a line of Tyson Looney Tunes Meals. They were based on cartoon characters licensed from Warner BrothersYasuda, Gene, Companies See Cold Cash in Courting Young Taste Buds, Los Angeles Times, San Diego County Edition, July 17, 1990, Business section, Part D, page 2A. Retrieved February 15, 2011Grodner, Terri, How nutritious are TV dinners for tots?, Environmental Nutrition, October 1, 1990.
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The first chilled foods in the 1960s were sliced meats and pies. By the next decade (1970s), household refrigerators were stocked with salad dressings and dairy desserts. In the 1980s, TV dinners, quiches, flans, sandwiches, pizzas, ethnic snacks, pastas, and soups were kept chilled. Nondairy desserts, sandwich fillings, dips, sauces, stocks, prepared fruit and vegetables, and leafy salads were commonly chilled in the 1990s.
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Eliminator is the eighth studio album by the Texas rock band ZZ Top. It was released on March 23, 1983, by Warner Bros. Records. Recorded in Tennessee during 1982, the album was produced by the band's manager Bill Ham and peaked at the top of the charts in many countries. "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Got Me Under Pressure", "Sharp Dressed Man", "TV Dinners" and "Legs" were released as singles.
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As soon as ten were present, a > service began. There followed a kosher dinner until someone began the grace- > after-meals. After that psalms were sung in the original tongue. ... For the > past few years Kosher TV dinners have been available in the House dining > halls upon a surcharge of fifty cents ... how impossible it was twenty-five > years ago for all this to exist—how impossible it was to believe it ever > could exist.
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In May 2014, Hillshire Brands announced it was buying Pinnacle Foods for US$4.23 billion in a cash and stock deal. Pinnacle Foods brands include Birds Eye, Duncan Hines, Hungry-Man and Swanson frozen TV dinners, among many others. Days later, Pilgrim's Pride threatened the deal with its own bid for Hillshire Brands for $6.4 billion. To complicate matters further, on 29 May 2014, Tyson Foods announced a $6.13 billion cash bid for Hillshire Brands.
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The frozen food industry began to dramatically change surrounding the time of World War II. As men were required on the battlefield, women became more needed in the workforce.Laurent Gust, “Defrosting Dinner: The Evolution of Frozen Meals in America” Intersect 4 (2011): 51 This limited the amount of available time women could spend preparing meals for their children. Women began to rely on TV dinners post-war for greater convenience, and to save time.
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He regularly ate Fritos with a Coke for breakfast and TV dinners in the evening. He enjoyed reading and read every book published in the United States between 1930 and 1938, excluding children's books, textbooks, cookbooks and books on technology. He also viewed over 22,000 videos from 1979 to 1997, averaging three videos per day. A UNH spokesperson said that he smoked a pipe and loved sitting in front of the library talking with students.
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A German TV dinner (currywurst with French fries) A TV dinner (also called prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal, frozen dinner, frozen meal and microwave meal) is a packaged frozen meal that comes portioned for an individual. A TV dinner in the United States usually consists of a type of meat for the main course, and sometimes vegetables, potatoes, and/or a dessert. The main dish can also be pasta or fish. In European TV dinners, Indian and Chinese meals are common.
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Ruby decides that Whitney may be of some use to her; she takes her to the Department of Motor Vehicles and uses her to get out of jams when she's caught making off-color remarks to store employees. Ruby stocked up on what she calls "vintage dinners" – frozen TV dinners that were taken off the market when health experts discovered that some of the additives were causing cancer. She still serves them on special occasions like Thanksgiving for her family.
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The production process of TV dinners is highly automated and undergoes three major steps. Those steps are food preparation, tray loading, and freezing. During food preparation, vegetables and fruits are usually placed on a movable belt and washed, then are placed into a container to be steamed or boiled for 1–3 minutes. This process is referred to as blanching, and is used as a method to destroy enzymes in the food that can cause chemical changes negatively affecting overall flavor and color of the fruit and vegetables.
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At the end of that same year David Sarnoff, after being incapacitated by a long-term illness, was removed as the company's chairman of the board. He died in 1971. RCA's exit from the mainframe computer market in 1971 marked a milestone in its transition from electronics and technology toward Robert Sarnoff's goal to diversify RCA as a multinational business conglomerate. During the late 1960s and 1970s, the company made a wide-ranging series of acquisitions, including Hertz (rental cars), Banquet (frozen foods and TV dinners), Coronet (carpeting), Random House (publishing) and Gibson (greeting cards).
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TV Dinners was McCleary's debut album of English songs. The album consists of songs that Mccleary composed and wrote for major TV advertising brands like Vodafone, Levi's, Audi, Titan and Lakmé. He has extended these 45-second jingles into full-length songs by adding new composition and lyrics so that instead of sounding like jingles, they sound like tracks from various artists that were placed in TV ad films. Featuring his own vocals on half the album, it also features the singers Anushka Manchanda, Shalmali Kholgade, Monica Dogra and Mauli Dave.
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Some products are sold with fillers, which increase the legal weight of the product with something that costs the producer very little compared to what the consumer thinks that he or she is buying. Food is an example of this, where meat is injected with broth or even brine (up to 15%), or TV dinners are filled with gravy or other sauce instead of meat. Malt and ham have been used as filler in peanut butter. There are also non-meat fillers which may look starchy in their makeup; they are high in carbohydrates and low in nutritional value.
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Diana Henry has said that she did not fully discover cooking until she went to France aged 16 as a French exchange student, staying with a family who introduced her to olive oil and good everyday food. Henry has said that she "never intended to be a food writer", having planned to be an actress or a lawyer. Her early career was as a TV producer, working on food programmes such as TV Dinners presented by Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall. During her weekends she started cooking from books by Claudia Roden and Julia Child, going food shopping on London's Edgware Road.
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After Pebbles and Bamm- Bamm get married and move to Hollyrock in I Yabba-Dabba Do!, Fred and Barney are both working overtime for Mr. Slate, and Wilma and Betty now own a food delivery service called 'Bone Appetite', but much to Fred's disgust. Wilma is not there to cook for him, so he cooks his own TV dinners as well as Barney's. One day, the Flintstones and the Rubbles go to Hollyrock to visit their children, Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm (who is trying his luck at being a screenwriter), after Pebbles reveals that she and Bamm-Bamm are going to have a baby.
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According to Siebeck, his journalistic columns as well as his books were written to achieve a certain goal: his readership should be sensitised to the idea that food and drink should always be of the highest possible quality. In his publications, Siebeck wrote against fast food, TV dinners, discount store food, subsidised farming and intensive animal production, but also criticised a lack of table manners and the German cuisine which he considered bad. His style was satirical and sarcastic, and often deliberately insulting. In the 1980s, the Südwestfunk broadcasting corporation produced and aired a 12-episodes television show that was initiated by Swiss documentary filmer Roman Brodmann who was also a gourmet.
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A bus advertising Swanson broth in Hong Kong in 2008 Adolf Ho Ping-yau, managing director for the Campbell Soup Company in Hong Kong, introduced the Swanson brand to Hong Kong in 1987. Ho introduced Swanson chicken broth to the Hong Kong market following a visit to a Campbell's factory in the United States, in which he saw excess chicken soup created during the production of TV dinners going to waste due to a lack of demand for chicken broth in the US. As of 2004, Swanson chicken broth is Campbell's best-selling product in Hong Kong, and the Swanson line of soup products have a market share of 90% in Hong Kong.
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When Swanson's TV dinners launched in the 1950s, the product competed primarily with home-cooked food, and was developed with a relatively low price point for the consumer. By the 1970s, however, the increasing number of two-income families and single working parents shifted competition to restaurant food, either eaten at the restaurant or ordered to take home. During this period, American consumers were increasingly exposed to a greater variety of international cuisines and more sophisticated flavors, and the consumer was also growing more nutrition- conscious and discerning. Competing in this new environment required more expensive ingredients, but Swanson was slow to change its traditional menus, and slow to recognize the increasing importance of the microwave oven in the heat-and-eat food market.
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When the food is chilled through cryogenic freezing, small ice crystals are formed throughout the food that, in theory, can preserve the food indefinitely if stored safely. Cryogenic freezing is widely used as it is a method for rapid freezing, requires almost no dehydration, excludes oxygen thus decreasing oxidative spoilage, and causes less damage to individual freezing pieces. Due to the fact that the cost of operating cryogenic freezing is high, it is commonly used for high value food products such as TV dinners, which is a $4.5 billion industry a year that is continuing to grow with the constant introduction of new technology. Following this, the dinners are either covered with aluminum foil or paper, and the product is tightly packed with a partial vacuum created to ensure no evaporation takes place that can cause the food to dry out.
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She collaborated with them in a project called Telethon, a work in which they interviewed others about their personal experiences in relation to anthropological models, recorded it, and presented it in the University gallery as an installation made up of a living room with sofas, TV dinners and a television.Desmarais, Ilene Segalove: Why I Got Into TV and Other Stories, p. 12. But Segalove's first introduction to video was through her sculpture professor, Roland Brenner. Other early influences in using the medium of video included Wolfgang Stoerchle, then a graduate student at UCSB who later taught at CalArts, and the curator David Ross who had come from New York and was to launch the most comprehensive video exhibition in the coming years. Upon completion of her bachelor's degree in Fine Arts at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1972, Segalove purchased a Sony PortaPak from Naim June Paik’s girlfriend.
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Stevenson's "Egg Timer" describes his relationship with his father, Steve, who raised him after his parents divorced. Beginning with the lyric "Two generation gaps between us", it goes on to describe the divorce ("She took all your money, she left a note on the door / We had TV dinners and we called her a whore") and how Steve worked two jobs, sleeping an hour in between with an egg timer as an alarm clock: > I was born when my father was 50, so when [the Descendents' first album] > Milo Goes to College came out he was 69. He was a good man, but he was very > cruel, very cold. He would sleep for one hour in the morning when he got > home from work, and then he would go to his other job, and then he would > sleep for one hour in the evening, after giving me dinner, to go to his > night job.
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Jewish day school educators and leaders in over 30 states and over 100 communities representing 330 Hebrew day schools insisted that the American Jewish Congress did not speak for American Jews on religious or educational issues, and was viewed by some in the Jewish community as primarily a secular agency. The President of the Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America (also known as the Orthodox Union), Rabbi Joseph Karasick, said that the American Jewish Congress “speaks for itself only and is under no circumstances to be taken as representing the American Jewish community. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations of America, central spokesman for this country’s 3,100 Orthodox synagogues, as well as all Orthodox rabbinic bodies and every other Orthodox Jewish body, have given full support to the Federal Education Act and deem its provisions to be consonant with the principle of church-state separation.”Orthodox Groups to Defend in Court Federal Aid to Parochial Schools JTA, 5 December 1966 In late 1978 New York State's prison system reached an agreement, brokered in part by AJCongress's then-assistant executive director Marc D. Stern, "to arrange .. TV dinners .. along with packaged breakfasts and disposable utensils" to those requesting kosher food while in prison.
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