Chef Boy-Ar-Dee 1961
Vintage Food Advertisements: Part Three
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Borden's 1944
Nabisco 1965
Dr Pepper 1961
Pet-Hershey's 1966
arbilab
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I've always liked TV dinners. I have a freezer full of them even as we speak.
In 1964 one of the few things I knew how to cook from scratch was fried chicken. Too much work and mess for one meal for one person, so I made a batch of drumsticks and put them in recycled TV dinner trays with frozen peas and corn, made my own. Pritdang resourceful for a college freshman. Better and cheaper than Swanson's, which were 79c at the time. Really quite expensive, considering Banquet TVDs are only a dollar today.
In 1964 one of the few things I knew how to cook from scratch was fried chicken. Too much work and mess for one meal for one person, so I made a batch of drumsticks and put them in recycled TV dinner trays with frozen peas and corn, made my own. Pritdang resourceful for a college freshman. Better and cheaper than Swanson's, which were 79c at the time. Really quite expensive, considering Banquet TVDs are only a dollar today.
Dr. Pepper: My first experience with the good Dr. was circa 1964, when I was in kindergarten. My high school-age sister had friends over after a football game, and she heated a saucepan of Dr. Pepper, which was advertised as a hip-young-generation replacement for stodgy old hot apple cider. After some insistence on my part, she poured a steaming ladleful into my little A&W Root Beer mug. I took a few swallows and it came right back up, all over the kitchen floor. I would not go near Dr. Pepper again until my 30's, when I tried some--perhaps more sensibly--on ice.
Arbilab-- I like your idea for homemade TV dinners. We're old enough to remember when they had to be heated in a regular oven, LOL!
Arbilab-- I like your idea for homemade TV dinners. We're old enough to remember when they had to be heated in a regular oven, LOL!
mark_wpduet
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This was
The BEST CEREAL EVER!!!!!
The BEST CEREAL EVER!!!!!
twintubdexter
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food memories...
Those Nabisco Bacon Thins... I could eat half a box in 10 minutes. They were bursting with articicial bacon flavor goodness...and those boxed pizza kits, fun although you had to stretch the stingy crust tissue-paper thin to make a 12" pie, and that sawdust-like little packet of cheese wasn't too flavorful. Do they still have those? As a child I remember radio ads for Dr Pepper mentioning the 10-2-4 thing like it was medicine or some kind of tonic. Did anyone ever drink Dr Pepper 3 times a day?...maybe since it was "the friendly picker-upper." I guess that "Bolt" stuff is today's equivalent.
Those Nabisco Bacon Thins... I could eat half a box in 10 minutes. They were bursting with articicial bacon flavor goodness...and those boxed pizza kits, fun although you had to stretch the stingy crust tissue-paper thin to make a 12" pie, and that sawdust-like little packet of cheese wasn't too flavorful. Do they still have those? As a child I remember radio ads for Dr Pepper mentioning the 10-2-4 thing like it was medicine or some kind of tonic. Did anyone ever drink Dr Pepper 3 times a day?...maybe since it was "the friendly picker-upper." I guess that "Bolt" stuff is today's equivalent.
twintubdexter
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..."artifical"...I could do a one-word post and still make an error!
TV dinners costly.
I remember TV dinners in my childhood, and they were expensive. So yeah arbilab, I'd say they were costly.
My mom only got them on loss leader sales - they were too expensive for regular consumption.
(An old Heloise book I skimmed from probably that era had 'how to make your own TV dinners' in it, so maybe you had some inspiration
)
I remember TV dinners in my childhood, and they were expensive. So yeah arbilab, I'd say they were costly.
My mom only got them on loss leader sales - they were too expensive for regular consumption.
(An old Heloise book I skimmed from probably that era had 'how to make your own TV dinners' in it, so maybe you had some inspiration
)
Pillsbury 1953
Chun King 1958
Chun King 1962
Kikkoman 1968
Chun King 1953
Kellog's & Kikkoman 1973
Durkee 1949
Banquet 1965
Pillsbury's 1949
