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The TV Dinner Company That Released The First Ever Frozen Pot Pie By Erica Martinez Oct. 10, 2025 2:20 pm EST

As frozen meals go, there are certain dishes you can count on seeing time and time again in the frozen food aisle, regardless of the brand they are made by. Salisbury steak (an old-school dish no one eats anymore ), fried chicken, lasagna, and macaroni and cheese come to mind. One specific frozen staple requires no microwave-friendly tray and not even any sides or dessert to go with it; the mighty pot pie is a meal in and of itself. Today, you can find several flavors of pot pies, including chicken, turkey, beef, vegetable, and more, but chicken pot pie was the original, introduced by C.A. Swanson company in 1951.

The introduction of Swanson's pot pies actual

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