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Retro TV Dinners That Need To Make A Comeback

TV dinners are such a staple of supermarket cuisine that it's hard to imagine a time when people weren't zapping prepackaged ice-cold meals. The concept was downright revolutionary when it was introduced to American consumers in the early 1950s, even if the military and airlines had already been reheating frozen meals for years. Swanson sold over 10 million of what it coined "TV dinners" in its first full year of sales in the mid-1950s. For less than a buck, you could get a ready-made meal with all the sides separated in their own compartments. No fuss and hardly any cleanup — just heat it and eat it. Some of those OG TV dinners left such an indelible mark on society that we'd love to see them return.

It's no accident that the TV d

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