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.
ReplyDeleteYou can certainly still get these pre-cooked meals, that you just pop in the microwave. I have one in the freezer at the moment. What I meant was when did they stop actually calling them TV Dinners, because I am sure I remember that name from around the 1970s ?
ReplyDeleteBrands vary, but in NZ you can get chicken, beef, pork, and lamb.
Yes, the tray was divided in to two or three sections, one for the meat, and one or two for the potato and vegetables. Tinfoil trays, and tops, for a regular oven.
I think they're still called TV Dinners in the US, but not in the UK.
ReplyDeleteDon't know what's happened to them since the '70s in NZ Paul.