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Thread #97413   Message #1917095
Posted By: Don Firth
22-Dec-06 - 07:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: Are you a 'natural person'?
Subject: RE: BS: Are you a 'natural person'?
Yeah, Spaw, I'll keep an eye open for it. I'm into food. And fortunately, food reciprocates.

I understand that back in the early Fifties, when the holiday season was over one year, Swanson's found they had a whole warehouse full of frozen turkeys that hadn't sold. They didn't know what they were going to do with them until someone in the firm had a brilliant idea. He contacted one of the outfits that prepares frozen dinners in little aluminum trays for the airlines and had them use the turkeys to make up a bunch of airline-type dinners for Swanson's. Lots of people were eating in front of that new-fangled invention, television, to avoid missing Sid Caesar, Ed Sullivan, or the Firestone Hour.   Swanson's market them as "TV Dinners." Thus is started (or so I've heard).

Don Firth