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Believe it or not there was a time when having a tv dinner was exciting. In the fifties it was something different and fun that broke with the then common habit of eating together as a family at the dinner table.
Pop a tv dinner in the oven and after twenty five minutes everyone in the family could sit down on the couch in front of their tv trays and eat dinner as flickering stories played out on the new(ish) device called the television.
When tv dinners first came out there were many families that didn’t own freezers yet, so they had to be used the same day they were bought. But as freezers became commonplace and tv became more tightly integrated into family life tv dinners were available on a whim any time of the week.
Like many things that began in the fifties the whole eating in front of the tv thing got way out of hand and now it’s not really an exiting or fun thing, it’s just something we’re compelled to do. These days eating together at the dinner table every day is a goal for most families, but not necessarily a reality.
And tv dinners? The companies that make them have backed away from calling them that. Now they prefer the label ‘frozen dinners’ instead, probably hoping to downplay the whole image of a meal eaten while zoning out in front of the tv.
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