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TV dinner可不是看電視的時(shí)候吃的晚飯哦~

Definition

A frozen prepared meal, usually packaged in a disposable serving tray, that needs only to be heated before serving.

?(also called prepackaged meal, ready-made meal, ready meal, frozen dinner, frozen meal and microwave meal)?

電視餐杆烁，也叫做冷凍餐牙丽、冰箱餐、微波餐兔魂，指獨(dú)立包裝的冷凍或冷藏餐食烤芦，直接加熱即可食用。

Example

In?2019,?the?number?of?microwaves?shipped?to?U.S.?retailers?is?expected?to?increase?for?the?fourth?straight?year,?nearing?the?market’s?pre-nosedive?numbers?of?the?mid-2000s.?Even?the?much-maligned?TV?dinner?is?on?the?upswing,?with?a?couple?of?years?of?rising?sales?in?a?row.

( The Economist )

Origin of TV?Dinner

Several smaller companies had conceived of frozen dinners earlier, but the first to achieve success was Swanson.?

( Wikipedia )

First sold in 1954, just as television was becoming the dominant family pastime, the Swanson TV Dinner was packaged in a box designed to look like a TV screen. Swanson's first TV dinner consisted of turkey, cornbread dressing and gravy, buttered peas and sweet potatoes.

The TV dinner was a landmark for the frozen food industry, said Chris Krese, senior vice president for industry affairs of the American Frozen Food Institute in McLean, Va., a trade group representing the industry.

Today, frozen foods bring in about $30 billion each year, according to the trade group's Web site.

( The New York Times 2005)

TV Dinner 發(fā)明于 1954 年入热，餐盤的形狀像電視拍棕，由此得名。最初的 TV Dinner 有土雞勺良，豌豆绰播，紅薯等。目前關(guān)于起源說法不一尚困，但是無論怎么說蠢箩，都是 Swanson 公司第一家使用這個(gè)名字并大獲成功。

See Also

https://recipes.howstuffworks.com/menus/history-tv-dinner.htm

https://www.nytimes.com/2005/07/21/business/gerry-thomas-who-thought-up-the-tv-dinner-is-dead-at-83.html

https://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/tvdinner.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_dinner