1955 Swanson TV Dinner Commercial

1955 Swanson TV Dinner Commercial

[@susansparanormalpennsylvan81]

i was born in 1962, we ate tv dinners as a "treat" maybe once or twice a month, i remember getting excited when a new flavor came out.

[@MementoDespair]

TV Dinners were much bigger back then

[@paulgodbey304]

I was born in 1964 and my dad and I used to eat tv dinners because he had the day shift at his job and mom had the swing shift at hers.

[@PorkChopJones]

I miss the old style TV dinners that came in a foil container,back the old days we planned ahead. So 25 minutes in the oven was never an issue. For me I think food back in the 50's 60's tasted much better and smelled good too! Plus don't forget the TV tray, every one had them back then that way you could watch your favorite shows on your black and white floor model TV console.

[@pamelacorona3665]

That's when TV Dinners were filling. TV dinners were a treat and it was exciting " yea we're having TV dinners tonight " we would even eat off of a TV Tray sitting in front of the TV :D

[@awkwardfreakinperson7936]

The hungry man ones are pretty filling

[@pureluck8767]

Thr good old days

[@StrangeScaryNewEngland]

@@awkwardfreakinperson7936 Just had the Salisbury steak, very filling.

[@tommyjoestallings855]

I remember. I eat hungry man dinners now but not the same

[@cindypattana6071]

25 minutes? That's forever!

[@tyrese3745]

+cindy pattana Thank God for Microwaves

[@byronchandler5000]

schmoo I totally agree, schmoo.

[@BasementBerean]

But it was 25 minutes of watching TV! Back then a huge advance.

[@The_SilverMane]

Fish Filet Borderlaise takes 50 minutes :P

[@iamtheblackwizard88]

@@tyrese3745 No. Losers use those. And you are one.

[@clydebarrow70]

"The freezing compartment",,,,,-)

[@wffofficialchannel-9773]

+Clyde Barrow xD

[@wffofficialchannel-9773]

+Clyde Barrow Swell.

[@wffofficialchannel-9773]

+Clyde Barrow For christ's sake they talked so differently

[@sitizenkanemusic]

I love watching these old school commercials from the 50s- and compare the both subtle and noticeable differences in the lingo used then.

[@clydebarrow70]

lol me too.

[@jadaparks8047]

9/12/17: We did not eat TV dinners often in our home because my mom would do all the cooking ( from scratch ) each night. But, whenever she did serve these meals ( TV dinners ), she would serve it with a salad, hot rolls w/butter and a homemade dessert. We would be so excited whenever my dad would pick up a pizza for dinner, or we'd go to McDonalds( at that time you sat in your car to eat your hamburger & fries ), had TV dinners and/or had pancakes w/sausage and etc for dinner. It was NOT the NORM for us to go to fast food restaurants, it was the exception! After all w/ 5 children in a private school, uniforms, book bills and etc, who has time for wasting money on fast food? It may seem like my family life was very strict but, it wasn't, my dad & mom spent a lot of time with us. Thank you, Dad & Mom, for the memories. Mom's in heaven now but my dad is still here, he's 80 yrs old and still getting about. Aloha, everybody. Thank you, GOD , for great parents. JESUS is LORD!

[@pamelacorona3665]

Jada Parks , same here except for I didn't go to private school. My mom worked and still came home and cooked. She did all the yard work on the weekend and slow cooked homemade spaghetti sauce on Sundays, and it was the best. Unfortunately she can't remember the recipe. We knew what was for dinner each night of the week. We had salad every night and the dressing wasn't bottled, it was olive oil, red wine vinegar, salt and pepper talk about healthy. Only once in a while did we get to have a treat called a TV Dinner and another one called fast food :D Breakfast was milk, juice, toast, a vitamin, and my choice between oatmeal, rice cereal, or cream of wheat. Only on Saturday and Sunday did I get sweet boxed cereal. Mom didn't send me to school wired on sugar to drive the teacher crazy. I was 15 when I had my first slice of Pizza it had Anchovies on it and they were good :D I didn't eat pizza again until I was in my 20s. What a wonderful life it was. Peace Love and Jesus Christ is The Lord : )

[@mitsukivrse]

@@pamelacorona3665 i want more stories

[@IveNeverStoodUp]

AMEN

[@dwightpowell6673]

What town/state did you live..I guess the minorities had ruined the Public Schools in your area?

[@dwightpowell6673]

@@pamelacorona3665 interesting story...did you do the same with your family?

[@tableturtle2978]

This commercial decades ago is much more interesting than watching today's mcdonald's commercial.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I agree

[@MrChristian331]

Looks good! That was when the food in the tv dinners were actually real food. And the way they marked that, makes me want to really eat it and gets me hungry for it. 👍

[@dank1280]

Imagine trying to getting away with having guests over for TV dinners today!

[@ferociousgumby]

1:01 Click on this six times in a row

[@danireviewsstuff]

I love this

[@ProvenHueMan]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@ferociousgumby]

@@ProvenHueMan Watch this kzbin.info/www/bejne/aabPkIhnhKqaqrs

[@theneurochemist5267]

Jack actually does not just look incredibly good, he has also an amazing voice

[@Deadra_]

Not gonna lie, if I was living in the 50s I’d be convinced to buy it.

[@captnrobvious47]

TV dinners are midnight snacks for me. Or at least a convenient side dish when it comes to the small ones.

[@LockedPig]

"Small dusty box of some sort " "You're not sure, but it's definitely not edible. You're not quite sure if it ever was"

[@Zer0Skateboard]

"Outside of trading, this item has no use."

[@anthonynathaniel3560]

Hahaha, that guy going MMMM MMMM! This was awesome 👍

[@ucimyy4u]

Mother Murhpy that looks good!

[@user-rf1th2xr7h]

I would've bought 20 of them if they were still about 30 cents

[@newfromold2keep]

I love a hungry man from swanson I love the fried chicken classic the most.

[@Soxruleyanksdrool]

Yeah but when they put Swanson TV dinners on sale, they NEVER put the fried chucken one on sale. It always says except fried chicken. Unfair.

[@1984isnotamanual]

@@SoxruleyanksdroolI wonder why that is. Maybe because they know that’s the most popular one

[@MovieEggman]

Back when people said "swell"

[@Libertyjack1]

Well, you could've gotten arrested for saying 'f'n'A!' in public...in that very abbreviated form...in a parking lot, not just on TV.

[@ferociousgumby]

When was that dropped? Some time in the '50s? Another one was "saaaaaaaaay" before anyone SAID anything.

[@tomservo56954]

Five years later, Narz walked away from the hosting job of the game show VIDEO VILLAGE in a unsuccessful attempt to save his marriage to "Mary Lou".

[@lindaeasley5606]

I guarantee the food in tv dinner tray's back then were better quality than today

[@happyrn6177]

I always wondered what these tasted like. The only thing my mom cooked that was frozen were Mrs. Paul's Yams on Thanksgiving. She never fed us Hamburger Helper or Kraft Macaroni and Cheese.

[@ryanperontochamp]

Im eating a TV dinner as I watch this

[@vnlilman]

Which one? I haven't had one in 10 years!

[@fob1xxl]

I was 10 in 1955 and I remember talking my Mom into buying one for me. Probably Turkey, or Fried Chicken. My mom didn't want to but it for me. We were Italian and THIS wasn't food ! 😂

[@CoolAce1]

These looked so good and with sweet potatoes. Everything was better in the 50's.

[@Prozacslushy97]

Ah, yes.. The good ol days in the 1950's.. Women didn't have rights and segregation was a must.

[@sitizenkanemusic]

Lol, good ol' fashion american racism!

[@inkey2]

yeah, women didn't have rights. They didn't have the right to be drafted and die in Vietnam

[@MovieEggman]

inkey2 I FUCKING HATE THE 2010s, why can't we at least go back to The 90s.

[@inkey2]

tolerantcoot....TOTALLY.....better yet lets go pre-home computer

[@CinematicTechnologies]

"Mother Murphy!" Haha. I'd eat that right now if it weren't for the fact that that food's probably pretty moldy by now some 60 years later...

[@redheads604]

drinking game: drink every time they say "Swanson tv turkey dinner"

[@toddhuber8989]

Jack Narz--oh my

[@michellatour150]

My parents divorced when I was about 7-8 years old, I ended up living with my dad most of the time, what ate these TV Dinners every second day, ordering or dining out the other days!

[@fromthesidelines]

As "pitched" by Jack Narz on "THE BOB CROSBY SHOW".

[@dtnetlurker]

Normally everything new was not quite as devoloped and not as good back then, but TV dinners seem to have went the opposite direction. They look ten times better than todays TV dinners, and bigger with a lot more food. Also it was good food and real mashed potatoes. Not instant junk they use now in a lot of the frozen dinners of today.

[@Jeff98177]

1:09 "And make your husband lucky, too." Yeah, a TV dinner should do it. Guess how many times I was teased growing up :-D

[@TheRosemontag]

Hydrate level 4 please.

[@shaunigothictv1003]

Marty mcfly and his family sure knew how to make a great pizza around the kitchen table.

[@josephstalin6913]

"FRUIT...FRUIT PLEASE"

[@shaunigothictv1003]

@@josephstalin6913 RETRACT!

[@sinfoniahill]

looks good

[@Sheri451]

I would love to go back to the old days and eat the food they used to have, I guarantee it tasted 100%better then. They didn't have all those preservatives and growth hormones in them like they have now. I have seen twelve year old children six feet tall with a changed voice and needing to shave. And girls on their periods at nine years old.

[@helptheworld319]

Sheri451 Yea go back to chemicals in your food

[@Sheri451]

Like DDT and MSG you mean. I get it.

[@Sheri451]

They already have chemicals in them. If organic foods didn't cost so much we could all eat healthier.

[@helptheworld319]

Sheri451 True

[@slammed.yotas1974]

You are wrong actually I have a basic beard at 13 but given the fact in the south most food is actually homemade and the menstrual cycle has nothing to do with diet

[@knife_in_your23]

nose como ala gente no le deba asco ese tipo de comida , pero amo el comercial

[@videox222ify]

no modern housewife should be without Sawson's TV turkey dinners

[@steven.events]

Back then, it was tabboo for the husband to put the food in, and take the food out of the oven by himself.

[@hiroll8618]

Swanson is awesome

[@zatchg1212]

That tv dinner actually looked substantial! Not like the lame ones we have now

[@KarlShota]

I have to wonder what TV Dinners of the 1950s were like in terms of quality compared to today's equivalents. Anyone from the time who remembers them able to fill in a boy born in the late '80s and raised in the '90s~? o.o

[@inkey2]

Karl......my memory of TV dinners from the 1950s, 60s etc is that they weren't bad at all. Some were pretty fancy and had sections with some kind of soup and apple crumb dessert . I always loved TV dinner mashed potatoes. Back then every house had a few "TV dinner trays" (tables) so you could literally eat your TV dinner in front of the TV. They were made of cheap, stamped out sheet metal with a design painted on them. In fact on Ebay they are considered a mid 20th century collectors item now.

[@KarlShota]

No kidding on the Ebay front. I just came across a Libbyland aluminum TV Dinner tray that's up for $35. I could imagine what trays even older than that would sell for. o.o Thanks for sharing your memories on TV dinners. They make me wonder if they'd have a better reputation if they had remained geared for heating in an oven and not the microwave. OuO

[@Oppaismasher]

KarlShota I want a vintage Swanson TV turkey dinner now. ;3;

[@matthewframarin6021]

Marbles092593 What would they taste like :/

[@inkey2]

Matthew Framarin Just the fact that there were no microwave ovens and they were cooked an hour in a real oven is a big taste plus

[@RetroFiles]

People in 1950s: Thank you for this TV Dinner, I have so much Verities of Food to eat from and the Quality is Amazing People Now: What the hell are you doing, feeding me cheap ass food like this?

[@MovieEggman]

People Now: I WANT MY FUCKIN STARBUCKS!!!

[@jadaparks8047]

No, people today, LOVE McDonalds, Burger King, Pizza Hut and just look how OBESE we are. Diabetic, Hypertension, Renal Failure, Heart conditions and Cancer are RAMPANT today.

[@shriazhennessey6297]

Back when your wife had to cook lol how times have changed 😂

[@sparda877]

Yeah women can be men now society has changed for the worst

[@jarvisjackson4833]

wegmans has similar metal trays of prepared meals that you put in the oven, they're 9 dollars each though.

[@jukkapanula137]

Tässä teille herkkusuut :)

[@CheeseMaster1337]

Imagine serving your dinner guests a frozen TV dinner in 2024. What an insult it would be.

[@dave_dynasty]

"From the freezing compartment of our refrigerator". Just say freezer.

[@sinistan1002]

the original foil ones back in the oven up through 70's maybe early 80's you used to get a lot more and it was better now you get half the amount if that

[@georgelouis6515]

Wow they did not have much to work with back in those days. lol

[@talkaboutwacky]

MORE BUTTER!

[@larryhicks4203]

Man this commercial would get you canceled today!

[@yeshualionofjudah7107]

Those were good.

[@Bojangles5-2]

Great CGI turntable!

[@GUNUFofficial]

Huh, that actually looks good.

[@birddog3130]

In retrospect ,this food is healthier than the crap at fast food places

[@salvatory2012]

I lost my appetite 😢

[@ponyboycurtis536]

before u fucking had to stick the holes in the wraps lol

[@daniellack3559]

1955...The Golden Age of Television, and The Golden Age Of America...(unless of course you happened to be black)...

[@mercb.8637]

daniel lack ha ha yes... there's that. 😩

[@boingokky]

or a woman....

[@user-tt5li8hf2f]

How about a non racist comment?

[@Ken-lp9qt]

daniel lack Oh lookee ..… Found the one person that’s here to start some shit!

[@dave_dynasty]

@@user-tt5li8hf2f how was that racist? It was true. If you were black at the time, you had to use a different water fountain.

[@sweeshaman]

I can bring my friends over and eveeybody gets frozen dinners good times

[@samualgugliemo2601]

Making me Hungry

[@DengrayKai211]

glad bought a hungryman just put it in the oven :P

[@bludika]

why did they look so much better?

[@jadaparks8047]

Because there was a slogan for a car commercial that went.."The QUALITY goes in BEFORE the name goes on" and that is the way ppl did everything. QUALITY of an item, whatever you sold MUST be the motto of the day. They did not have FEW ppl working and trying to do EVERYTHING ( they call it MULTI-TASKING today ). They hired you on a job where you can FOCUS YOUR SKILL. Nowadays, companies hire FEW PEOPLE and over work them in order to SAVE MONEY. In the meantime, you do NOT get QUALITY and you see this in industry, home building ( cheap material ) and etc. The motto today...The building goes up, the name goes on. Never mind the QUALITY. Dear, JESUS, when will it ever end? I am sick of it. Sad, Sad, Sad.

[@SongFalcon467]

TV Dinners

[@greenbroccolistudios1275]

The food is good tho :D

[@sagetea2851]

That sure looks swell

[@Yeoj444]

But I want it now

[@willowlambdreams]

That actually looks like death

[@Gurashi]

"A dinner ready in 25 minutes..." _Boy I've missed your kisses all the time_ _But this is twentyfive minutes too late_

[@psi_mae]

Mmmmmmm

[@robertgsell2207]

All combined that tray had 10000 calories and more fat than a lard factory. I miss the days when there was no guilt in eating something tasty 😊

[@theboss-vr1jj]

ant that sweeeeell lol

[@HighAsHeckPriestess]

25 minutes?!!!!

[@eyeliveina90scartoonworld46]

This is creepy good.

[@danireviewsstuff]

"My wife uses Swanson Frozen TV Dinners because I'm not smart enough to use an oven. That's women's work!"

[@thebestSixZero]

Touche Miss.

[@tyrese3745]

Guys, ignore @zznonagonzz. He's a childish troller who should keep his insults to himself.

[@kwclove7623]

Giblet gravy… 💀

[@Phil-RS]

I like the medical bit at 51 seconds, where he demonstrates using the fork to lift what looks like flacid dead human skin to show us it is actually dead, unable to move and somehow, shows the viewer that you too can lift the skin with a fork to check what might be underneath and of course, the wholesome goodness of flacid dead human skin. And finally, let's not mention what happens when you consume food that is heated in aluminium trays. No wonder the cancer rate is through the roof these days. Sigh

[@JerikRiza]

Just ate 3 of these oof

[@lavarburtom]

Those boomers really liked butter

[@thebestSixZero]

25 minutes???

[@gametimewithjamie]

1:00 me on the toilet

[@silveryote1]

*S W E L L*

[@KatriceMetaluna]

In 25 minutes I can get a much tastier meal through Door Dash. Progress!

[@sparda877]

Yeah and pay twice the amount for your order

[@KatriceMetaluna]

@@sparda877 And get twice the amount of food.

[@4eva68]

25 minutes... LOL ;0)

[@annsmyth3840]

lol

[@cristoferchanimak]

“Women are lucky they don’t have to panic with Swanson… but men are LUCKIER because if they invite people their wife doesn’t panic” omg lol

[@Soxruleyanksdrool]

Whose mother murphy?

[@memberberries3615]

They had no idea how to advertise back then 😂

[@gametimewithjamie]

It's better than watching someone trying to be funny in an advert but just coming across as cringe

[@Arkantozero]

Swanson´s TV Scam ever, MMMMMM. No , Thanks.

[@medicisoldier2790]

What?

[@umbertlambert2113]

Why didn't they have a woman do the introduction?

[@creepmike77]

Swell.

[@mgm57901]

really surprised that not one social justice Warrior has piped-in about how sexist this is

[@carriebizz]

HAHA only 25 mins 😂🤣😂 and oh the non politically correct era!

[@helptheworld319]

Y'all dirty ass eat TV dinners.......... but this one look good

[@judgeparker4236]

These were responsible for the decline of American Values. Women stepped out of the kitchen and bedroom and the country went to Hell. :-)

[@awkwardfreakinperson7936]

Lol I forgot how sexist times were back then

[@sparda877]

It's not sexist

[@bobgomez9481]

This crap corporate food came along with the need for people to "sit in front of a television" - think about it. Wake up.

[@bobgomez9481]

Any wife back then most likely got a black eye over a Swanson frozen shit dinner, no?