Does anyone know the history of dinner?!
Does anyone know the history of dinner?
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If ya read the bible you can find out when the last supper was!!!! so the history must have started a little before that....
Hmm. Well, tonight, I had a meatball casserole. Last night, we went out and I had fried chicken and shrimp. So, yes, I know my history.
I can't help you with the history of dinner I think cavemen had something to do with although, I can get you the story behins T.V dinners.
Gerald Thomas, a C.A. Swanson & Sons executive, had a big problem. What to do with about 270 tons of left over Thanksgiving turkey.
"After Thanksgiving, Swanson had ten refrigerated railroad cars -- each containing 520,000 pounds of unsold turkeys -- going back and forth across the country in refrigerated railroad box cars, because there was not enough storage in warehouses. We were challenged to come up with a way to get rid of the turkeys," said Thomas.
He got the breakthrough idea from the trays used for airline food service. And the TV dinner was born. The first production order was for 5,000 dinners, thought to be a big gamble at the time. They had about two dozen women armed with ice cream scoops filling the new trays at night.
The first TV dinner featured turkey, corn bread dressing and gravy, buttered peas and sweet potatoes. It cost 98 cents and came in a box resembling a TV.
The 5,000 dinners proved to be a gross underestimation. Swanson sold 10,000,000 of them that year.
Of note, most folks didn't own freezers back then, so the dinners were bought and prepared the very same day.
A frozen fried chicken dinner was introduced in 1955. Turkey is still the most popular Swanson TV dinner, except in Fort Worth-Dallas, where fried chicken is the favorite. (Don't ask)
In 1962 they stopped calling them TV Dinners.
hopoe this helps you
http://www.history-magazine.com/dinner2....
im sure some do and many do not