Oh how I loved them as a kid.   I lived for the little peach cobbler corner of the foil tray, but it was all so yummy.

Once they switched to bags and microwave dealios, they were never the same as the foil tray in the oven thing...

When I was a kid my mom was the bestest cook in the whole world, and consistently made some of the best meals that ever existed. So what did we do as kids? We begged and pleaded for TV dinners constantly. Every once in a great while my mom would give in and make us those things for dinner. We thought they were the greatest things in the whole world. Thinking back on those TV dinners now, and thinking back on what my mom's cooking used to be like, all I want to do is find a time machine so I can go back and punch my former little self square in the face.

LOL 'tato

We used to beg for them too and every once in a while I will buy them but, Squid's right, they're not the same.

I'd get them if my mom and dad were going out at night and my brother was watching me or I had a babysitter come over.

Turkey dinner was righteous.

Am I only only one who picked out which one I wanted based on the dessert?

I think I usually picked whatever had a brownie, and I was usually disappointed.

Emokid is throwing slomo dove at my face, I guess that means he flipped me the bird

I always thought the mashed potatoes tasted like buttered popcorn so I always chose one of those, I too was always disappointed.

Also laughing at potato

My mom never gave us TV dinners. Or Hamburger Helper, Spaghetti-O's, or Yoo Hoo. She probably wouldn't have given us Lunchables, either, if those were around when I was little.

And on the rare occasion we got McDonald's (once a year?) it was always "No...you don't need soda. You can drink milk at home."

Ha! Official Gamer Grub. WTF.

There's the holy grail of TV dinners - up there today.

Except the Apple Cranberry dessert was the least cool.

Man, I can taste the thin gravy, and imagine myself separating the greasy line of fat away from the muscle on that Turkey meat NOW...

LOL....Squid :P

They were a huge treat at my house too. I think we only had them a few times. Swanson was no match for moms cooking but it was cool because it was different I guess.
LOL @ Holy Grail.

the turkey ones are good, but I had problems with the gloop under the top layer of turkey. Top layer; yummy white meat with gravy, get to row 2 and you're looking at some brownish grey, congeled turkey roll monstrosity.

It scared me more than Jiggy does, and that takes some doing

Yes, but it was brownish gray congealed turkey gloop with imitation stuffing!
Real imitation stuffing!

oh yah, the stuffing was good.

I never minded if one food item snuck into an adjoining compartment's food item, ie a wiley green pea sneaking into the potatoes.

But damnit, DON'T be messing up my dessert!
Peas and apple cranberry cobbler are NOT palatable.

Ahh, yes.....
The advent of formed foil trays and food.
In the days before microwave ovens.
When even electric ovens were a novelty.

Back then microwaves were for the imminent Martian invasion and the weapon we as humans would need to defend our planet from those horrible outer-space invaders.
While we hid in our basement atomic bomb shelters.

Of course the foil prepackaged, ready-to-bake meal was quite the novelty item.
And snack time.........
WOO HOO!!!
JIFFY POP!!!
Popcorn and root beer for Saturday movie night!

Right there on the brink of the dawn of technology.
With our foil dinners.
And gas ovens.
And foil popcorn.
And black and white televisions.
And monphorial transistor radios - MOBILE, with batteries!

And then it happened............
We landed in OZ and someone turned on the color!
And the Duke Nukem food.
And the interwebs.
A series of tubes, connecting the world.
Owned and invented by Al Gore.

Totally with ya on the second layer turkey grossness, Jo.
And even though you knew it was there, you always hoped it wouldn't be.
The stuffing was nasty too. All soggy and disgusting like stuffing flavored apple sauce or something and you tasted it every time you burped for the rest of the day.

There is a shitload of butter on that there food up there.

As gross as the turkey is, the fried chicken is a total abomination. Yuck!

As kids we loved the fried chicken one but never got it unless our Catholic friends moms gave it to us. LOL! Or as my great-grandmother would say go get it from "goyim", we were not about to get it from her or anyone else in our family.

My mother, as complained about before, would "oven fry" hers. Which is baked f**king chicken.

I gotta say, this entire thread kinda grossed me out. I never liked TV dinners. When I got older I started to like some frozen chicken pot pies.. but they were still meh.