{"id":8088,"date":"2013-02-20T09:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=8088"},"modified":"2013-02-20T08:40:25","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T13:40:25","slug":"the-history-of-frozen-dinners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-history-of-frozen-dinners\/","title":{"rendered":"The History Of Frozen Dinners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022013_1336_TheHistoryO1.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Denise Winterman looked at the key points in the history of the frozen dinner:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The modern frozen dinner started in 1953 when one retailer had a surplus of Turkey after Thanksgiving. They decided to freeze it up and sell it as a meal.<\/li>\n<li>While that wasn&#8217;t the first TV dinner, it was the first one to pack the food into an aluminum tray that could be used to both cook the food and as a plate for the food.<\/li>\n<li>The frozen dinner&#8217;s popularity was held back until household freezers became more popular.<\/li>\n<li>The dinners were boosted by changes in family life. More women were working meaning that there wasn&#8217;t time to cook. Retailers advertised the dinners to the increasing number of divorced men.<\/li>\n<li>In recent times frozen food has suffered as consumers have become more concerned with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.centives.net\/S\/2013\/the-fresh-food-wars\/\">freshness<\/a> of their food. But with people unable to afford restaurants due to the recession, frozen dinners have once again become a staple.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more about why they were known as TV dinners, the rise of premium frozen food, and &#8220;exotic&#8221; dinners over <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-21443166\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/magazine-21443166\">BBC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denise Winterman looked at the key points in the history of the frozen dinner: The modern frozen dinner started in 1953 when one retailer had a surplus of Turkey after Thanksgiving. They decided to freeze it up and sell it as a meal. While that wasn&#8217;t the first TV dinner, it was the first one [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/022013_1336_TheHistoryO1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8088"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8091,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8088\/revisions\/8091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}