{"id":7109,"date":"2020-10-24T23:11:41","date_gmt":"2020-10-25T03:11:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=7109"},"modified":"2020-10-24T23:11:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-25T03:11:41","slug":"a-brief-history-of-the-tv-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=7109","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of the TV Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Thanksgiving\u2019s most unexpected legacy is heating up again<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/arts-culture\/brief-history-tv-dinner-180976039\/\">A Brief History of the TV Dinner<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;According to the most widely accepted account, a Swanson salesman named Gerry Thomas conceived the company\u2019s frozen dinners in late 1953 when he saw that the company had 260 tons of frozen turkey left over after Thanksgiving, sitting in ten refrigerated railroad cars. (The train\u2019s refrigeration worked only when the cars were moving, so Swanson had the trains travel back and forth between its Nebraska headquarters and the East Coast \u201cuntil panicked executives could figure out what to do,\u201d\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/brand-marketing\/how-swanson-s-tv-dinners-made-it-digital-age-164127\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to\u00a0<em>Adweek<\/em><\/a>.) Thomas had the idea to add other holiday staples such as cornbread stuffing and sweet potatoes, and to serve them alongside the bird in frozen, partitioned aluminum trays designed to be heated in the oven. Betty Cronin, Swanson\u2019s bacteriologist, helped the meals succeed with her research into how to heat the meat and vegetables at the same time while killing food-borne germs.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanksgiving\u2019s most unexpected legacy is heating up again Source: A Brief History&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,68],"class_list":["post-7109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-food","tag-info","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}