Retro Ads I can still remember! Sitting near the TV,eating a Swanson's with my mom! God,I miss those days,badly!
@ladedalounge3 жыл бұрын
me too
@SuperWatson636 жыл бұрын
Damn I'm old,I actually remember eating one of these out the oven with the tomato soup.boy were they good.
@mikeb64503 жыл бұрын
I had totally forgotten they had soup. For some reason that didn't go over cos they stopped doing it.
@Redwhiteblue-gr5em2 жыл бұрын
Fried Chicken was my favorite. They actually tasted pretty good when you were a kid growing up in the 1960s. Also only time my parents let me eat dinner while watching tv lol. Always a special treat when we had TV dinners. Salisbury steak and the Mexican dinners were also favorites.
@mochimochi824 жыл бұрын
My parents would never let me have these, but my grandmother would. I loved the idea as much as the food.
@1952kid14 жыл бұрын
I remember my family tried our first TV dinners, my mom bought tv dinner trays , so we could sit in the living room and eat and watch TV. It was a big thing in the late to early 1960's , SO COOL, we could eat and watch tv. I liked them. But it was never enough food in those dinners.
@kevinsteinmiller81152 жыл бұрын
When TV dinners were actually good
@bigkdrman113 жыл бұрын
My family rarely ever ate TV dinners (1960's and 70's) so when we did have one it was considered a treat. I really liked the 3 course dinners. It is a shame that they quit making those. Now you can't even get dessert with your meal anymore. They call them Swanson Classics but they're just not as good as they used to be.
@shelleynunn41234 жыл бұрын
Back when a tv dinner was actually a meal instead of a snack!
@asouthernwriter12 жыл бұрын
So true. I bet these tasted WAY better than the ones now! The ones now are overly processed. :P
@ftsjr13 жыл бұрын
I remember eating Swanson TV dinners. They really weren't too bad.
@arthurleino10 жыл бұрын
Liked the fried chicken ones in the 60's to 70's, had french fries!!
@fob1xxl Жыл бұрын
What I loved was they even used a knife when they cut the turkey ! Truth is you could sneeze and tear it apart !
@A-FrameWedge2 жыл бұрын
My family ate these TV dinners with the aluminum tray in early 70’s because that is as far back I can remember. We even had the TV dinner stand up trays also, turkey dinner was one of my favorites and the fried chicken, I think that these tasted better because they were heated in an oven and heated up better than a microwave.
@fromthesidelines15 жыл бұрын
And because Campbell Soup Company owned Swanson in the early '60s, what brand of tomato soup do YOU think they'd include in their "3 course dinners"? This ad was usually seen on "LASSIE" and "THE DONNA REED SHOW" [Campbell Soup was the primary sponsor].
@RRaquello14 жыл бұрын
I like Fred Flintstone's reaction when she left him a TV dinner to eat while she was making the Happy Housewife TV show. I remember when I was a kid, I always wanted my mother to buy the TV dinners but she never would because she said they were junk. She was old fashioned and insisted on home cooked dinners. I never had a TV dinner til I was an adult and bought it myself out of curiosity.
@dirtydavy12 жыл бұрын
I truly miss the days of the aluminum tray frozen dinners. It seemed they had more taste, were cooked more efficiently, and you worked up an appetite waiting for it to to be done, say, 30 minutes compared to 5 nowadays. Plus, you took them out and put them on one of those tv watching trays in the living room. TV dinner!
@carlofontanello24152 жыл бұрын
I remember those commercials, I used to love TV dinners…💜
@tobyradloff12 жыл бұрын
TV dinners were better when they were still packaged in aluminum foil trays. Now, most TV dinners are microwaved, thus being packaged in plastic trays now. In the oven, the plastic trays are supposedly heat proof, but you get that "plastic" flavor in the food. Now, the portions (at least on the Banquet dinners) are a lot smaller...but perfect if you are on a diet and are trying to cut back on your eating. Once in a while I would go for one of the Hungry Man dinners.
@johnsain3 жыл бұрын
I was so proud as an 8 year old that I could prepare a 3 course dinner.....
@Jitterro13 жыл бұрын
That "more people do" sounds vaguely threatening. Man, I love old commercials.
@melvynn1113 жыл бұрын
oh, i loved those tv dinners!
@savgal121111 жыл бұрын
Hah!! I remmeber these dinners!! No Microwaves and you had to wait 1/2 an hr for that frozen dinner!! The soups DID leak!!
@karen4you Жыл бұрын
My mom wasn't the best cook so a Salisbury dinner was a marvelous treat. I'd sit on a step in front of the oven on cold days waiting for dinner. They were larger patty and better tasting than today's offering.
@Enigma04915 жыл бұрын
Those were GREAT!!! The worst thing Swanson did was get rid of the aluminum trays!
@tmobileg15 жыл бұрын
I'd buy this if it were around today. I actually remember the aluminum TV dinner trays from the 70's & 80's when we used to eat them. Oh how i love nostalgia! And you don't have to be a boomer! Thanks Swanson. Thanks TVDAYS.
@papayaboat17805 жыл бұрын
Even in black and white this looks appetizing.
@Kiaininja16 жыл бұрын
Yummy, I love eating my Swanson TV Dinners.
@LarryWaldbillig10 жыл бұрын
It's true. The TV dinners now are CRAP compared to what they were back in the day in tinfoil pans. The Banquet Salisbury Steak had actual painted on charbroil lines across the patties! Now they don't! A couple of years ago, I wrote to complain about this and I shit you not, they sent me a coupon for a free box of Salisbury steak. But they never corrected the problem. This is the poor man's fillet mignon! And On-Cor Salisbury steak (which STILL has the painted grill marks on the patties) are hard to come by where I live....
@kristinar10825 жыл бұрын
You're mad because your Salisbury Steak isn't painted anymore? Lol
@johnsain3 жыл бұрын
Stouffers is not bad!
@slobomotion12 жыл бұрын
Of course I remember these. They were so-so but indeed convenient. I had a professor who'd been involved in the space program, food packaging and other things (he was my technical drawing prof) and he explained how the space program advanced this type of convenience item a lot. I think I bought these up through the '80s in the States sometimes! I live in France now and barely eat processed "convenience" foods anymore but there are some fascinating ones available!
@tobyradloff12 жыл бұрын
Wilma sang: "Keep your hobby hubby, keep your hubby happy, when he's a little chubby, he's the happy pappy...with Rockenschpiel!"
@jenniferhansen36224 жыл бұрын
I just saw that episode on MeTV!!
@davidatovar2 жыл бұрын
Man, I knew when I was kid in the sixties that I should keep all the foil trays and boxes that showed the dinner that looked like a wooden cabinet TV set, I washed and scrubbed all the trays and put them back in the boxes and hid them away in my room but we moved from that house in 1972 too a brand new home and when I moved all my stuff my mom said I couldn't take my collection and dumped them in a dumpster. I'm 62 now and my moms still here at 92, and I still remind her about it. 😣
@Buttermilkjug Жыл бұрын
It would be terrible to live to 92 years old just to have your kid crying for 60 years because you wouldn't let her collect garbage...
@flipflopsguy8868 Жыл бұрын
@@Buttermilkjug why are you here, No I mean, Why didn't your mother abort you?
@SassyQuest12 жыл бұрын
Happy TV Dinner Day!!
@elkinsinboxinc10 жыл бұрын
Saw this in YTP: The King and Link in TV DINNER
@SomePkmnlovingdude4 жыл бұрын
Me too.
@waffleliberty894 жыл бұрын
*laugh track*
@20alphabet3 жыл бұрын
Back when tv dinners were real food.
@back2the80s15 жыл бұрын
That was when they actually used real, fresh ingredients in the dinners, now it taste artificial. I am actually have a swanson dinner in the oven as we speak. Quick and easy late night dinner for the single gal.
@653j5216 жыл бұрын
You think they used real, fresh ingredients in tv dinners? Everything tasted like cardboard. They were awful, but a novelty, so they were popular--that, and all the fat, sugar, and salt. And they took forever to cook so you waited and waited for what you could have made yourself in a similar amount of time with real, fresh ingredients. The chicken pot pies were similarly time-consuming and had very little inside and you normally burned your mouth because you were starving, but the gravy-soaked crust was somewhat edible. That's the thing. These dinners taught a generation to tolerate eating junk when they had the money to do so much better. Look around you for the result of THAT. :(
@char4him9916 жыл бұрын
I love classic tv and especially old commercials. I don't think I could eat one of these today though.
@dalerussellsullivan93733 жыл бұрын
,,,that last line,,"More people do ", sounds like if you know what's good for you, you will too😂🤣. I don't remember the ones with soup, guess that was before my time.
@rhtball2 жыл бұрын
I lived on these when I was a kid, and had to make dinner for myself.. .59 Cents for a Dinner...I loved Scallops and Fried Chicken back in the day.
@matthewkelly69978 ай бұрын
When i was a kid, TV Dinners were in foil and had to be cooked in a regular oven for like an hour. Ok, maybe 55 minutes. There weren't many microwaves in homes. My first experience was a microwave at The 7-11 around the corner from my folks' houseand. They had instant Chilli dogs and these Truckstop sandwich. I loced them. Chocolate milk, sandwich, maybe an icee. They still had Mrs. Bairds French Padtries. So good. They had the little vanilla ice cream cups for a dime. Eleven cents with tax. Sometimes if us kids were short the tax, the guy would let us keep the candy or food anyway.
@MrDiechi0111 жыл бұрын
I loved Boiling Bags, man.
@ronbeyer24727 жыл бұрын
Agreed, my favorites were turkey and a spicy beef one, I don't think it was a BBQ beef but something similar. It's name escapes me at the moment.
@chickenvasquez782 жыл бұрын
Good commercials from the 20th century 😊❤️
@susiejones4610 Жыл бұрын
I remember loving the Swanson’s fried chicken when I was a kid.
@elc196013 жыл бұрын
@RRaquello "When he's a little chubby/He's a happy pappy/With Rockenspiel!" Sorry, couldn't resist. When we were kids, my sister and I used to regard TV dinners as a "special treat" . . . poor unsophisticated taste buds. We actually used to think the powder in Pixy Stix tasted good too. Just plain sad.
@laurabeane88622 жыл бұрын
I remember that too. Since the food was "perfectly proportioned" people assumed it was for a diet. All I remember is the peas would get into the Apple Brown Betty😆 It's SCIENCE Fred. It'll help you lose weight 😆😆😆
@chips.39273 жыл бұрын
This has derived such immense amount of sastifaction towards those who've once attained this, it provides such sastifacting dishes.
@inkey213 жыл бұрын
I LOVED the potatos in these dinners......they had this wonderfully hokey, bogus, processed flavor
@thomaslucas60792 жыл бұрын
Strangely enough Turkey is still their best tasting TV Dinner.
@inkey214 жыл бұрын
I always liked the way the mashed potatos tasted. There was something delisciously phoney and bogus in the texture and flavor
@philipblakely60305 жыл бұрын
Wow. They sure gave you a lot of food...compared to todays frozen foods
@eugene68012 жыл бұрын
Yeah. Back then, they actually got straight to the point. They showed everything about the product so you know what you're in for. Nowadays, people have no idea what they just purchased.
@tobyradloff12 жыл бұрын
Microwave ovens were considered a "luxury" item (like color TV sets and VCR's when they first came out) until at least the mid to late 1970's. Now they're a common household appliance. I think Whirlpool made the first microwave oven in the mid-1950's, but it cost about $3000 in 1957 dollars. An example of that first microwave oven is in the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, MI.
@zxtenn11 жыл бұрын
People these days could never wait 30 minutes for a dinner and remember the fold-up tin TV tables everyone used to keep somewhere in the living room? Watching the old black and white TV--- Microwave???? what was that?? When they 1st came out didn't they mention cancer?
@sean.furlong198915 жыл бұрын
I have to admit that does look good!
@luisreyes19633 жыл бұрын
When frozen dinners were actually edible. 😕
@juliemnm82733 жыл бұрын
It's the Next best think to your Good Cooking......Swanson makes it good!
@markaungst78872 жыл бұрын
The fried chicken was great. And the been and franks were awsome. Looked everywhere for them . The beans and franks are long gone.
@simon500513 жыл бұрын
I remember sticking one of these in a microwave oven in 1976...........I had no clue.
@koolbossjock16 жыл бұрын
lol Man i cannot believe i used to eat these things.Every once in a while i read the ingredients,you could build nitro with that stuff.
@ferociousgumby10 жыл бұрын
And how about those little chicken pies? They were actually good, and 49 cents each.
@stevedeleon87753 жыл бұрын
Chicken..Beef..Turkey..POT PIES!👍💪
@slobomotion12 жыл бұрын
Sometimes they were quite nasty. I love the scene in STRANGER THAN PARADISE where Richard Edson explains to Ester Balint how good and normal frozen dinners are. She says, "What kind of meat is that? Does it come from a cow?" I'm from the same place as Jarmusch and a lot of his material really hits home. I kind of liked frozen pot pies! Gloopy and a good way to burn yourself, but oddly good!!
@stevedeleon87753 жыл бұрын
My Favorite Was The Chicken Strips With Tater Tots!..👍
@fromthesidelines13 жыл бұрын
Swanson does indeed exist, 'nozcr'- Campbell Soup Company still markets Swanson broth, and licensed the name to Pinnacle Foods so they can continue to produce their "TV dinners". This ad probably dates from 1963....
@zzzzxxxx34115 жыл бұрын
wow!!!!! mouthwatering..... it makes me hungry.... i better prepare myself meal right now.. yeeeepeee........
@StevenFallsOver13 жыл бұрын
Lol..so old..now we have hungry man tv dinners...best dinners ever!!!!!
@TimelordR12 жыл бұрын
It's sad that the "TV Dinners" of yesteryear are now surpassed my microwavable dinners that taste somewhere between school lunches & hospital food.
@elyseny13 жыл бұрын
I used to love swanson 3 course turkey dinner.
@lindaeasley56063 жыл бұрын
These were actually good before the 1980s .You got different sides before it became standard to only add mashed potatoes with gravy and vegetables
@losilluminados37295 жыл бұрын
"It is written, only Link can send dinner!"
@masterfarr82653 жыл бұрын
great I'll grab my stuff
@chickenvasquez783 жыл бұрын
There is no time ⏰⏰⏰⏰
@losilluminados37293 жыл бұрын
@@chickenvasquez78 Golly!
@chickenvasquez782 жыл бұрын
Then Link happily bikes off to shop at Walma- er I mean Hyru-Mart
@derikdragon802 жыл бұрын
Having soup in those dinners must not have went over so well.
@supermandisco11 жыл бұрын
Don't ever buy Banquet Turkey with no gravy, & as hard as a cookie
@movinngroovin21042 жыл бұрын
I remember the cherry cobbler, and the brownie.
@haydenfoulds62755 жыл бұрын
*Raise your hand if you came here from YTP: The King and Link in TV DINNER. ✋*
@Ohchoaos7 ай бұрын
They were the best 😍
@fairfaxcat1312 Жыл бұрын
Remember, you can trust Swanson. More people do.
@YesYou12333313 жыл бұрын
It never looked like that. The soup would leak into the turkey and the peas would have gravy all over them. The edges of the potatoes were hard around the edges and you could only eat the middle part. My family lived off of these things. The apple crisp was really good though.
@rodlabbe29766 жыл бұрын
That's not true. Strikes me that you were probably not paying much attention to cook times and overcooked them.
@answerstolucky14 жыл бұрын
0:26 See the tabs over the soup? There was a separate, flat cover that you removed after heating. Had forgotten about that.
@mrmjb19604 жыл бұрын
And the soup boiled over sometimes getting into the other courses.
@DDios-ih9de4 жыл бұрын
But it spilled anyway
@Friedtoenails Жыл бұрын
Nothing like gravy and chunks of corn in your brownies
@hotsickle11 жыл бұрын
I loved Cookin' Bags...I married one...
@SuperSpaceGirlHDTV12 жыл бұрын
Swanson TV Dinners taste like wheelchairs! LOL
@Adina2012 жыл бұрын
I don’t Remember the soup, but all the rest. They were pretty good. It was fun haven’t something different.
@inkey213 жыл бұрын
@rkmugen back when these commercials were made Americans did not have microwave ovens. You had to cook them in a convential gas or electric over for about 40 minutes.
@JENDALL7142 жыл бұрын
Other than the Hungry Man dinners, Swanson doesn't make regular TV dinners anymore, at least not where I live.
@rkmugen13 жыл бұрын
*sigh* laziness in America... *pops a frozen TV dinner in the microwave* XD
@chickenvasquez783 жыл бұрын
That's what I call ummmm... 'American Dream'?
@bendover94113 жыл бұрын
That must have been right up there with putting a man on the moon back then!
@donarmsdealerone6693 жыл бұрын
Did you enjoy your MREs? Then you'll love Swanson brand 3 course dinners
@emchammer181510 жыл бұрын
now they call these hungry man dinners
@kurtkauffman432610 жыл бұрын
Indeed!
@inkey29 жыл бұрын
to be politically correct they now have to be called "hungry person" dinners
@mrmjb19604 жыл бұрын
@@inkey2 owned by another company Pinnacle Foods owns them now.
@paulj0557tonehead14 жыл бұрын
Yum ,I love gray food! TOPOFFMAN says it right. We luv those meals on wheels. This was back when lil' Michaelina was just a pea.
@SomePkmnlovingdude4 жыл бұрын
The King: Dinner!
@purberri2 жыл бұрын
I ate a lot of these back in the 1960s
@Mitzi732 жыл бұрын
I never saw these with the soup but I love the brownies that it came with. No longer eat these as the sodium is enough to kill a horse.
@greenbroccolistudios12752 жыл бұрын
*Shows Shark Teeth* I like swanson dinner meals
@elc196012 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one who noticed that the jingle in the background somehow morphs into the Green Giant jingle at around 0:53? Something about the peas in butter sauce, I suppose . . .
@pfromri11 жыл бұрын
They don't make rhem with soup anymore.
@jamesborlan28504 жыл бұрын
Sweet and spicy apple crisp I’m eating cinnamon apples right now while watching this
@GeronKizan13 жыл бұрын
After commercial: Vault-tec presents: Vaults!
@cookingshowaddict11 жыл бұрын
I MISS THOSE!
@bingobongo44512 жыл бұрын
I never had a Swanson dinner with the soup,i can just imagine how that tasted frozen soup thawed out then cooked in an oven.
@fscap8117 жыл бұрын
I believe the dinners were cooked frozen...you didn't have to thaw them out and then cook them.
@delwoodkelp85908 ай бұрын
Swanson TV dinners too expensive... We had to get by on Banquet TV dinners. Those, or the Banquet chicken pot pies... 3 for 99 cents.
@MaryStewart12 жыл бұрын
whqt's wrong with more food. if tou work hard, you need it. more variety today! ^^
@rkmugen13 жыл бұрын
@inkey2 Ah, but they did have the "Radarange" microwave ovens, which were introduced in 1967... and were quite popular.
@frencht-rexwarrior4505 жыл бұрын
''YTP: The King and Link in: TV DINNER!'' brought me here
@mrmjb19604 жыл бұрын
They dropped the TV From the name in the Late 70's.