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The TV dinner was a prepackaged meal which could be easily purchased frozen in a supermarket and heated at home that was introduced in the 1950s. It was intended to be eaten in front of the television. They were an early application of cryogenics.

Trip Tucker had difficulty believing T'Pol's second foremother, T'Mir, and her stranded Vulcan crewmates had crashed on Earth, hustled a game of pool, and lived on TV dinners in 1957. (ENT: "Carbon Creek")

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-The ''TV dinner'' was an invention developed by Gerry Thomas who worked for Swanson foods in Omaha, [[Nebraska]] in [[1954]].It was a prepackaged meal which could be easily purchased frozen in a supermarket and heated at home. Originally, it came on an [[aluminum]] tray and was heated in an oven. Keeping up with the times, the tray was later made of microwaveable material.
+The '''TV dinner''' was a prepackaged [[Earth foods and beverages|meal]] which could be easily purchased frozen in a supermarket and heated at home that was introduced in the [[1950s]]. It was intended to be eaten in front of the [[television]]. They were an early application of [[cryogenics]].
+[[Charles Tucker III|Trip Tucker]] had difficulty believing [[T'Pol]]'s second [[foremother]], [[T'Mir]], and her stranded [[Vulcan]] crewmates had [[crash landing|crashed]] on [[Earth]], hustled a game of [[pool]], and lived on TV dinners in [[1957]]. ({{ENT|Carbon Creek}})
-He wanted to develop a way to use frozen [[turkey]] meat, which was leftover after [[Thanksgiving]] sales. Making use of aluminum serving dishes, which were also used at that time to serve aircraft dinners, he packaged leftover turkey with cornbread dressing, frozen peas and sweet potatoes. Each item was placed in its own compartment. The trays were useful: the entire dinner could be removed from the outer packaging as a unit; the aluminum tray could be heated directly in the oven without any extra baking dishes; and one could eat the meal directly out of the same tray.
+==External link==
-In [[1962]] Swanson stopped using the moniker "''TV Dinners''," and several other companies entered the market. The name, however, remained in common usage.
+* {{wikipedia}}
+[[Category:Earth foods]]
-[[Trip Tucker]] had difficulty beleieving [[T'Pol]]'s first foremother and her stranded [[Vulcan]] crewmates had crashed on Earth, hustled a game of [[pool]], and lived on TV dinners.
-===External Link===
-[[wikipedia:tv dinner]]