Swanson tv dinners

[chechnya]

Looked like shit then, and looks like shit now. Nothing's changed.

[mediamadman747]

I have a Hungry Man dinner about once a month. I think the trays have gotten deeper -too many complaining about the corn getting into the chocolate brownie and vice-versa.

[LaVivaGan]

i want the meatloaf meal

it would make me feel like a vampire :)

[flashgamercheck456]

so disgustingly good... 

[2Ryled]

the tv dinners are a lot nicer when you take them out of the foil thingy & put them on a plate. It seems much more appetizing then.

[michel19612009]

i love that stuff, wish it would come back @ 0.89 ( wishfull thinking. lol

[YesYou123333]

I lived off of the spaghetti ones. I didn't see it here :(

[tahi16]

5 ppl ate stale dinners

[thenicedudejay]

perfect bachelor dinners :-) great also for old folks , that are to weak standing at the stove for hours.no dishes to wash afterwards either :-)

[erinkelly83]

No wonder people in the 50's didn't expect to live past 40 O.o

[Moviestar20]

@erinkelly83 Your so right Dx

[missy12061]

.081, 0.89 cents each?? that was the 1970 or so

GOD I'M GETTING OLD!!

[michel19612009]

@missy12061 : join the club. 089 c????? now its more like 4.99 lol

[parkerquinlan44561]

Who the fuck tries to serve Salisbury Steak with Chicken Noodle soup? xDD

[whatanightmare1]

My dad is a jerk, always was, so mom had to cook...we never had these growing up. So, during college, I decided to give them a try...since it was simple, cheap and easy, and the fried chicken and salisbury steak ones are not too bad. I would not want to eat them often, but like the guy said above, a meal is a meal. Now I'm a Lean Cuisine girl ;~)

[haroon9977]

wow Adjusted for inflation the price of food has gone down dramatically, thats what they cost sbout now on sale.

[seatboi]

These were good back then & TWICE as big as the plastic trays u get today...and No more desert! WAAAAA! I'd give ANYTHING to go back to those days! Stuff was such HIGHER quality than all plastic JUNK! One thing I don't get...all the green-people wanting to save the environment, yet everything's plastic that won't break down for thousands of years! Wood, metal & glass was a LOT better!

[METALMAN4Wii]

@seatboi They just go by Hungry Man Now so that's what happen to them. also that one that was stamped $1.68 that was like $7 back in the 70's.....! 

[ImSuchaGamer]

@seatboi no more desert? They have brownies what more do you exspect

[DeadFishFactory]

@seatboi Pretty sure the switch to plastic was to make them microwavable.

[sparkie119]

The English fish and chips dinner looks pretty good. I enjoy a good tv dinner once in awhile,especially when i cant stand the taste of my cooking. Does Swansons make the Hungry man Dinner?

[donnernurse]

They just don't make them like that anymore! I miss the good old days when you could get them in the tin containers!

[NoIDidunt10]

These probably seemed yummy to people back then,but right now I wouldn't touch that disgusting looking crap if I was starving

[inkey2]

@NoIDidunt10 depending which dinner it was, it was not too bad. There was something oddly tasty about those bogus potatos with gravy or butter

[krusokat]

nom nom nom nom nom

[zeppelin69801]

I miss those days

[SuperAkebono]

Does Salisbury Steak exist outside the frozen tv dinner?

[Angel4046]

My sister and I used to eat these every night for dinner growing up because our parents both worked,they were so good.Now there crap.

[TheMikester307]

Health food nut that I am now I wouldn't eat the fried chicken or salisbury steaks today. But back in the day they were wonderful! I can taste them now!

[MsFavorited]

the mashed stuff look like vaginas.

[pinkymichaea]

wow 89 cents

[RJiminez51]

the meat loaf dinner was the best. yummy. i ate them 3 at a time

[milkywaycenter]

Everything was better in the 50's 60's and up until 1975 after that America has been going down the toilet.

[tEhTh1Ng12]

I liked them

[mathamore]

i want give that to any living being!!!!

[xangelfshx]

The meatloaf was radioactive!

[RJiminez51]

@xangelfshx i guess thats why i have a 10 inch dick

[mrmpalex]

99c dam

[jhof989620]

did anyone catch those prices? 89 cents....thirty years ago?  Thats where the quality went....I can get banquet for 99 cents now on sale.....makes you think.

[ToxicOdiousOne]

Right tin would cause a microwave to explode or burn.

[Airking11]

the meatloaf one looked like it was sitting in blood

[tallyhoman911]

@Airking11 mmmm blood

[smith1958b]

The vegetables always got mixed in with the dessert. my favorites were salisbury steak, turkey, and fried chicken dinners. During the seventies, there were not fast food joints on every corner like today.

[inkey2]

@mathamore definately.....there was not the heavy concentration of fast food / pizza/sub shops like now. In the city I grew up in there was possibly 4 pizza/sub shops in the 70s....now there is at least 20 plus macdonalds

[SkylerTN]

No Sound :(

[fuckzezima]

What about computer dinners?

[nickjonasbigfan]

Even though im born in the 90's, i wish i could go back to the 70's for a day to see what it was like.

[Sheri451]

Have you bought any of the dinners lately? I have and I've had to stop eating them, they've got a whopping 15,000 grams of sodium in the fried chicken dinner. That's three pieces of chicken, mashed potatoes, corn and a brownie. I could swear that some of the earlier ones had tomato soup in them too. I can remember the dinners from the 70s in those metal trays. I thought they had a weird taste.

[Danzo775]

thats a real hungry man 4 friend chicken and a big mash potatoes.

[hiromiao]

God tv dinner used to be so cool but now, i think it ruined the American life style. Fast foot and tv dinner is more cheap than making your own food.......hence i am overweight...

[GrammarNazi100]

Family guy...

[arhuxtable]

This was before microwave ovens became easily affordable. All the entrees seen here are packaged in tin trays to be prepared in conventional ovens.

[TheClodfather]

the fish n chips hungry man looks good

[iluvkms]

the turkey dinner looks awesome!!!

[hokman1]

Had my first TV dinner tonight, not as convenient as I thought. I had the turkey one. I first had to separate heat the turkey in toaster oven cuz I wanted it crispy. And I also had to remove the brownie 3 mins after microwave, and another 2 mins with the brownie out. I wouldn't want my brownie cold so it actually became my appetizer, not desert....

doesn't work out that great. THe mash potato was wonderful though.

[bjroberts65]

This upload made me hungry....Im gonna go hit the kitchen now see ya!!!!

[AwwCrap66]

I liked the old swanson dinner's with the aluminum trays--I was a military brat i grew up on this crap

[Sheri451]

Remember those metal trays?

[bigkellyr]

I never saw the German meal before. My favorite has always been the chicken dinner. I used to love the "3-course" dinner with ths soup. It wasn't a big meal but it was cheap and easy to make.. I used to like the little entree meals as well. They have gotten a bit better but also much more expensive. Now I eat banquet because I can usually get them for a buck a piece and sometimes cheaper when on a coupon. Some people put them down but a meal is a meal.

[Sheri451]

I can remember the meatloaf, didn't it have a tomato sauce?

[Heckle100]

I loved the chicken dinner back in the 60's.Had to seperate the veggies from the dessert 1st and then allow the applecrisp 24 hrs to cool down to a reasonable temp.

[sovietmarxist]

potatoes beans and meat loaf is what i'm eating, from swanson.. its definitey not that tasty

[Pdawg9021]

The German one was horrible. My mom used it to punish me once.

[dpurves28]

Wow, I used to live for that fried chicken/mashed potato dinner they had.

[splattergirl72]

My mom cooked every night ,so it was actually a treat when we had these .When I got older realized that the fried chicken pieces were a little mysterious.Saw the German style meal for the first time here .Wonder what that tasted like...

[thegirl44]

We were the same, splattergirl.

I think that my mum and dad would get a little put out when they said that couldn't cook and we'd go crazy over the fact that we could throw a mitt full of Swanson's in the oven.

[alyyco]

very cheap :))) why don't do that again :(((

[VirgilB01]

Nowadays that same meal would cost around 3-4 dollars, and back then you got more for your money! Check out the portions sizes on these meals like: Mashed potatoes, etc. even a desert!

[CapitalistOverlord]

Woah, there was soup in those things?

[VirgilB01]

Amazing, isn't it! You won't see that today!

[zevon1964]

81 cents!

[GoneDead3]

its look bigger

[bottle2lip]

stouffers is one of the better brands anymore, especially if oven cooked. you can cook any in the oven.

[MetalHeavyLexiix]

What in the WORLD happened to that meatloaf...!

[torocobe]

the meatloaf dinner looks absolutely disgusting,

[tehBLAX]

@torocobe all of it does ive never eating this shit and i dont wnt to how poor do u have to be to get this

[MrBillystormchaser08]

@torocobe Correct, the meat in these tv dinners nowadays -not made with the ingredients that used to be-is more like "garbage meat" with ligiment and grisle and ultra-high saturated fat and who knows what is in that meat and thats why I no longer buy this stuff! (sorry Swanson,Banquet and some others!)

[LeGrande]

@MrBillystormchaser08 USDA grading for beef, in order of quality, is Prime, Choice, Select, Standard, Commercial, Utility, Cutter, Canner. Most beef in frozen foods is of the Commercial grade or less: usually the companies buy beef that was never offered for grading, and slaughterhouses usually only pay the cost of grading for Standard or higher. Commercial grade beef is extremely lean, but frozen food companies usually grind it and cook it with added shortening to make it palatable.

[Kell1295]

@torocobe I'm eating that right now and it is SOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOD!

[nolthria]

@torocobe

Hey, don't blame them if they added some fresh cow menstrual over the meatloaf, they had to flavor it with something.

[Sheri451]

@torocobe You want to talk about something that looks discusting? That German one looks sickening.

[QualityKills98]

@torocobe i think they all look good.

[justme632]

In the MeAtloaf dinner,WTH is that purple stuff in the compartment?

[nonew3]

It could be cranberry sauce but your guess is as good as mine.

[justme632]

LOL!

[rrush2214]

a brownie? i think the meatloaf looks so disgusting because the color of the entire picture is off...

[LongLegedMackDaddy]

ah the memories

[rocketlauncher2]

Slideshow? This isn't photobucket

[Frostbyte380]

Anyone remember the Rosarita brand mexican tv dinners? They had those 4 little mini bite size tacos in them, along with the refried beans and rice with enchiladas. Back in the early 70s. A lot better than the frozen putrid shit they make now.

[qwertasdcfghjklmo24z]

What is the yellow and white stuff in the tray at 1:01

[andeaver1937]

in the mashed potatoes? looks like butter.

[kbbcoop]

Those English fish and chips were pretty good.

[inkey2]

I was born in 1954...so I definately remember sitting in the living room watching B&W TV ( and only 3 channels )with my TV dinner on the little tv dinner table

[micmac99]

I have these for lunch at least 3 times a week now. I stick mainly to Hungry-Man and Michelina's. The original Swanson and Banquet did taste a LOT better in the '70s. In the classic Steve McQueen movie Bullitt, Bullitt gets about 8 of these at a time from the corner Chinese grocery store. He stacks the boxes almost like boxes of ammo.

[beergogles]

I remember having these in the 70's, and they were a part of growing up. Like Gypsy said, it felt like a big deal picking which one to have. LOL. Great memeories. They don't make these anymore do they??

[DixieRected]

I remember these! Growing up in the 70's with a mom that worked 6 days a week I had more than my fair share. I too believe that they tasted better then.. maybe it was because we had to actually cook them in the oven. Nothing nuked is even close to tasting as good as oven baked. Damn.. now I'm hungry. Gonna go out and get me a salisbury steak.

[Korea4Me]

I remember eating those meals. I can't believe I'm still here after eating that stuff.

[DulciJubilo]

We really did eat them on tray tables., watching TV. Swansons dinners are inextricably linked in my mind with evenings of disturbing Viet Nam War coverage on the evening news, the assasinations of King and Kennedy. All part of a coming of age.over strangely industrtial Salsbury Steak and dried out vegetables..

[GypsyFairy69]

We rarely ate heat and eat.

I remember my mom letting me choose a Swanson's dinner and it being a big deal to me. And it seemed like like damned thing to forever to bake up, and the little desert pie thingy tasted lousy.

[supremes1964]

I remember Swanson was HIGH Class and of course more expensive TV Dinners. While Banquet as the bargain.

Now, they both suck ....eww.

[scotpens]

Yeah, but at least Banquet is still cheap.

The quality frozen dinners now are Michelina and Stouffer's. Their stuff actually tastes like real food.

[SuperDuperMan180]

well what kind of flavor do you expect from a $1.59 worth of meat and vegetables? for the price i think banquet tastes pretty good. except for the weird pork rib-patty thing. that is not something that deserved to be created...

[TVDude78]

I was born in 1978 and remember when they were in the aluminum trays. Pot Pies too. I think they tasted better then. I still remember the salisbury steak dinner with the tater tots. I usualy had one while Mom was busy watching Young and the Restless.

[tastythighs180]

that meatloaf didn't look safe to eat

[fitemil]

2

BIG, MEATY

PIECES

[maglight117]

DONT YOU JUST LOVE HOW MEATY THEY ARE

[duncan36]

Kids today dont understand how little prepared food there was back then. When you and a couple of friends were in the house watching tv and no parents around it was either a tv dinner or a bologna sandwich. The TV dinner won everytime, tinny taste and all.

[scotpens]

Or you could always heat up some of that crappy canned Chef Boyardee ravioli -- or Barf-a-roni.

And very few people had microwave ovens then. There were no frozen food products made to be microwaved. "Radar ovens" were found mostly in public places like business lunchrooms and movie theater lobbies. You could get a cold burger or hot dog from a vending machine and pop it in the microwave for a couple of minutes. Still tasted like crap, but it was hot!

[Escomillo]

These things were horrific. I remember my mom (a great cook) got really depressed when I was in junior high, and started "cooking" these things. They wouldn;t cook right, so sometimes the aple sauce or whatever was frozen and the Salisbury steak was burned. Or vice versa. Thank God she got some meds and got better after a few years. But now I'm obsessed with cooking at eating and spend way too much at expensive restaurants. Thanks mom. Thanks Swansons.

[ChicagoJoe57]

I have to admit - Swanson was much better in the 1960's and 70's than they are today. They just do not seem to be as good. When I buy frozen diners - I bypass Swanson. They were the first and the best back then.

[makomako]

what do you call dinner like this. crabs or something?

[reesespieces22]

Swansons TV Dinners= the best thing ever invented!

[daisystrangelove]

meat meat meat

[melaniestevens]

Yum

[abkdisney]

The Turkey TV Dinner wasn't too bad.

[Mikakk2]

Notice the 89 cent price back in the 70's, that was expensive considering you can get frozen banquet dinners now for 1 dollar.

[LittleLulu62]

AH, those metal trays...what did we ever do before the microwave oven was invented?? :)

[smittykins]

Put 'em in the regular oven, of course--and waited 40 minutes for them to cook! :)

[papawx3]

Ah yes, I remember these very well! I was single back then, and that was about all I ate for a couple of years {before I got married}. Remember how long they took to cook? {before microwave ovens were popular}. I agree, they were MUCH better then than now. Recently I got reacquainted with Swanson TV dinners and they are NOT the same. No taste. Gave me indigestion too. Swanson used to be better than Banquet, now they are about the same. Too much fat, salt and cloresterol.

[LauraLinger]

The meals with fried chicken were always terrific.  Loved the fish n' chips supper, too.

[krazykitties]

I just (regrettably) had a swanson's meat loaf TV dinner today. Turned out looking NOTHING like the photo on the box. It also is NOT the way it was made years ago. It had a tomato sauce before, along with green beans, tater tots and a brownie. The current meat loaf dinner has brown bland gravy. No-taste mashed potatoes and plastic tasting corn. Not to mention that the size of the piece of meat loaf would not satiate the hunger of a carnivorous gerbil! And heck! What happened to quality?

[quirpco]

Today, Swanson dinners are probably made in China like everything else, hence the lack of quality.

[ethicomm]

You never know, check the label. Some pretty common frozen dinners like High Liner fish products are now made in China.

[ChicagoJoe57]

T.v. diners from China don't require refrigeration and you have to chase them around the kitchen.

[ethicomm]

Right you are!

[mathamore]

@quirpco before it was even worst when the americans made it......as we can use the term probably as you do ........it was probably even more gross before yes....now the american eat it more than ever probably ....cheap price, low quality  food , this is what they like...

[BigdogWitBigdog]

@mathamore Whoah, whoah, woah buddy. Now don't be a prick and think all americans eat is this. To be honest, I don't know anybody who actually likes these things. And, come one, be rational, a few of these when you are really hungry, or for school, work, ect for lunch isn't bad.

[mathamore]

@BigdogWitBigdog no thats true not all  of them , hahaha maybe 90 % hahahahah 10% eat good food .........hahahahaha

[BigdogWitBigdog]

@mathamore Fuck off you immature prick.

[zuebee]

Yummy!

[sandstar4]

I loved every single one of these!