The idea of the television affecting humans' diets may seem silly, but with TV dinners it's possible. TV dinners have affected american families for generations, and have sparked a line of products for lazy people. The popularity of the TV during the mid-20th century has carried into dinnertime for the average American family. To make viewing more convenient during mealtime, companies created ways to pre-package foods for easy consumption. TV dinner meals popped up in a variety of forms. Inspired by airplane packaged meals, the TV dinner hit markets in the 1940s. Meals would be processed at factories and purchased at grocery stores.. They could be heated up by oven or later, microwave, at the person's convenience. It's debated who invented …show more content…
Recent estimates show these prepackaged frozen foods flourish in a $4.5 billion industry. TV dinners and today's frozen meals save people time while also lengthening how long people can store food. Even in modern times, frozen dinners have retained their distinction as being a simple and convenient way of meal preparation. Throughout the last 50 years a number of new brands have emerged in the wake of the success experienced by the Swanson Company. Yet, ethnic and gourmet foods are now also finding their way into the frozen food section. Frozen variations of ethnic dishes raise a number of issues of authenticity and the meaning of ethnic foods in the modern Western context. It seems as if mass produced frozen ethnic foods take this idea to the extreme by not only taking these foods out of their cultural context, but also away from any traditional means of production and presenting them in an “Americanized” form. In conclusion, following their widespread acceptance, TV dinners began to permanently change how American families viewed meal times, allowing women to distribute time previously spent in the kitchen to other forms of personal