Hi Woodsy
Here is one for your Food Files.
When did manufacturers and retailers stop using the term 'TV Dinner' for a pre-cooked, frozen meal that you just heated up in the oven ?
I do not think I have seen or heard 'TV Dinner' in decades. In the olden days they came in metal trays for heating in a real oven, not plastic trays designed for microwaves.
Remember them readers?
Paul from NZ
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From Woodsy:
A 'TV dinner' ( roast chicken microwave meal) I had last year from the shop Iceland.
Not sure they were ever really called 'TV Dinners' in the UK Paul.
ReplyDeleteI think its a US term, which I first heard on a ZZ Top album.
They're just Ready Meals here (formerly, before microwaves, Oven Ready Meals).
My understanding of a British 'TV dinner' is these days, a microwavable chicken or beef roast dinner in a plastic tray. I like them and are definitely ready meals and handy for those times I'm on my own and not in the mood for cooking. I remember in the Seventies before microwaves these came in foil trays with foil covers for oven cooking.
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