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Which would you prefer?

Tuesday, 4 October 2016, 1:15 BFH Uncategorized 42

I saw a picture of these on another site and some of it came up in a burp, even though I haven’t had one in decades.

I prefer the turkey. My least favorite would be the fried chicken. I’d put the meat loaf on toast, and the brownie was strangely compelling. The tater tots were gross.

I imagine I’ve probably eaten about 300 of these in my life.

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42 Comments on Which would you prefer?

  3. I liked the old pot pies – they had crust on top AND bottom. Last one I tried (and it’s been years) it’s only crust on top and mostly what pretends to be some kind of gravy.
    Honestly, I grew up thinking carrots only came as little cubes.

  8. Charlie – if you had been married to my ex-wife, the salisbury steak would have been a greatly appreciated, edible staple in your post-marriage days as well.

  9. My Kingdom for the Meatloaf! I still crave that Swanson dinner and was traumatized when they discontinued it! I would smother the tots and green beans in the otherworldly tomato gravy and devour the Meatloaf. I have actually duplicated the gravy through trial and error but the loaf is just too weird to duplicate. How I miss those old Swanson dinners and seeing all those photos takes me back! Thanks…

  10. Did anyone else’s mom wash the aluminum trays and save them for later use? We didn’t get them often so we thought they were a “treat” (as kids we were too naive to realize that Mom’s fresh, home cooking was way better than the frozen crap).

  12. The prices – 89 and 99 cents. I wish. Today in Obozo’s America they would be 8 or 9 dollars.
    The fried chicken seemed more like a mystery meat with coating. The mashed potatoes seemed grainy. We ate these any way.

    After seeing a posters name the other day I looked up Shake N’ Bake. It’s still made and in various flavors. Who knew? I thought Shake N’ Bake disappeared with TV dinners.
    Is Jiffy Pop still around?

    @Mr. Mxyzptlk you can make your own pot pies.
    http://www.foodnetwork.com/topics/pot-pie.html
    Real comfort food.

  13. I miss the real, heavy duty foil that used to cover heat-n-serve foods. Now everything is plastic “film” covering a semi-plastic container. I don’t remember eating tee vee dinners, but Stauffer’s mac-n-cheese and their mac-n-beef are my still favorites. Does anyone know how to clone the mac-n-beef?

    When I was first married I was a terrible cook. Ter-i-ble. I was watching Family Feud one night and the question was “Name a food you boil?” My immediate answer was “fettucine alfredo!” (That’s when Stauffers used to make meals in plastic pouches that you boil in water to heat.)

  16. Fur, our kitchen remodel took six months and we ate almost entirely out of our microwave. Towards the end of the work, I was literally clutching my stomach in the frozen food aisle. We still don’t own a microwave. I hope to never see or hear one again.

  17. My mother taught me how to cook 7 meals.
    Baked Chicken
    Meat loaf
    Hamburgers
    How to make your own pot pies with double crust
    Knowing how to make crust you now can make a fruit pie
    A cherry pie. Full size
    A roast beef
    A full turkey dinner for 8
    I never ate TV dinners.
    They look G-d awful.
    I liked to use an outside grill natural gas in the 70’s
    When my girlfriends would say they couldn’t cook I would say “I can”

  19. Mom was a great cook- I don’t recall ever eating a TV dinner. Occasionally she’d serve pot pies.
    I miss those pot pies, chicken, turkey and beef. Came in two sizes.
    Banquet pies are similar and cost only a buck. Best when oven-cooked, never nuke ’em. Callenders M. pies only have a pastry lid.
    Can’t stand cooked carrots, I always pick them out and leave ’em on the side of the plate. Housecat #1 used to eat them!

  20. Ate a lot of these with grandpa many, many, many years ago. Mom never made these, she enjoyed cooking for her family too much. I thought the TV dinners were great and I ate everything, but I grew up in flyover country and thought school lunch was great. I like the ZZ Top song

  21. Facing the real (ugly) prospect of a President Clinton, I think a more appropriate choice would be 9 Lives vs Friskies, as only the wealthy will be able to afford Swanson’s.

  22. These days cooking dinner is not even remotely possible because I am so wrung out by a day in court. But frozen food is so awful that I’ve been doing mostly sandwiches and salads. Sometimes I make a big pot of vegetable soup on the weekend and reheat it during the week. Mmm, mmm good!

  23. Believe it or not TV dinners were a treat as dad demanded we eat “real” food so when he’d go out of town we “splurged”. Remember the Geno Pizza kits!
    We had Italian neighbors and I used to think they were sooooo exotic – until I walked into their kitchen one afternoon and witnessed paper plates on clothes pins strung out on a line running around their kitchen. I asked my friend and was told her mom cleaned and reuse them. That stuck with me all these years. Of course I shouldn’t have been too surprised as they had plastic covers on their sofa which I had to peal myself off many times.

  24. How about Chef Boy-R-Dee (sp?) homemade pizza? Used to make these in an iron skillet with the burner down low. The skillet was smaller than a pizza pan so you got thick crust and the topping was actually enough. 🙂 Each pizza was two meals for a poor bachelor and the double box was a very inexpensive and welcome change from mac and cheese and hot dogs.

  28. Actually Chicken or turkey ala king dinners are the worst, they look liked someone puked on the plate. Also beef stroganoff, just because. And don’t even get me started on anything with peas in it, I hate peas. I pick peas out of the fried rice at Chinese buffets as well as any canned soup that has peas in it. But my Mom who occasionally would make creamed tuna on toast (economy night) was the worst and not just because there were peas in it.

  31. And cream of mushroom soup, yuck! I used to tell my kids that it really was cream of slug soup and somehow my son likes mushrooms. It’s probably a good thing I didn’t grow up in Minnesota. And Depression burgers, one of my wife’s Mother and Grandmothers favorites. Tomato soup with ground up crackers shaped into a patty and fried with tomato soup over the top of it. My youngest daughter loves it.

  33. We blow about $300 per week, family of 4, to eat all organics, about 30% of our income. US Secretary of Ag says the average Americans spend on CHEAP food is about 10% of their income, and that’s “better” than the rest of developed countries that spend 20% to 30% of their income. He says that’s good because we have more money to blow on vacations and things we want. Maybe if we weren’t consuming frankenfoods in the US and instead blowing actual 30% on organic real foods our hospital bills would be a lot less and we could enjoy vacations healthy; stupid government fucks.

  34. In our college days in the late ’60’s, my sister and I lived on those horrid things! Our home was too far to drive for lunch, so we would rush by the grocery store for fake food turkey dinners, and heat them up at a friend’s apartment in town. We would either watch a cheesy soap opera, or listen to Bob Dylan or The Mamas and the Papas while we scarfed them down. Ew.

  36. Today’s frozen dinners are a lot more appealing, I remember waiting a whole hour before a Swanson meal was ready. I stock a few Stoffers in the freezer, but we never eat then as a family. They’re more for convenience when dinners get fouled up by school functions or doctor appointments. My favorite is the Meat Lovers Lasagna, even out of the microwave it’s pretty damn good. Salisbury steak and meatloaf are decent as well. I’ve tried a few other brands but haven’t found anything as good as Stoffers.

  38. I ate a ton of that shit when I was younger. One was never enough so I would heat up two or three. Pure shit. Sterile and nutrient-free. Meatloaf was a favorite one.

    I just juiced three beets and a bag of organic carrots. That is some real sweet tasting stuff. Nitric oxide booster. No more shit food for me.
    🙂

  39. I remember them and “TV trays”. Since we were Westerners dad watched the Bakersfield Boys at night. One had a guitar that was red, white + blue. He’s been dead for years; but really did have a red, white + blue guitar. Movies never did make him a star, of any kind. But fold ud TV Trays in the TV room watching American Folk singers – great fun 60 years back! Miss Merle, Merfle + Buck!

  40. We were not allowed to have these for supper when I was a kid because my dad “WORKS HARD FOR A GODDAMN LIVING AT A REAL GODDAMN JOB SO HE WANTS A REAL GODDAMN SUPPER”. I not sure why I shouted that. Don’t know where that came from.

  42. I used to call the chicken meals ‘Dried Chicken’.
    Nowadays I get the non-refrigerated, microwavable meals at Menards. Chicken and meatloaf meals are good, pot roast next favorite.

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