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Almost Edible: America's Iconic TV Dinner

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Remember those classic American TV dinners?   The ones with the separated trays that you could pull out of the freezer and put in the oven and or microwave and then plop down in front of the boob tube and watch your favorite evening shows while eating your perfectly separated meat, potatoes and vegetables.    As kids, we used to think TV dinners were a special treat especially if we got to eat them off a TV dinner tray and watch our favorite shows.  FloJo's favorites were the back to back Saturday night weekly episodes of Love Boat followed by Fantasy Island and Mr. Roarke.  "My dear guests, I am Mr. Roarke, your host. Welcome to Fantasy Island." The earliest documented beginnings for TV dinners was in the late 1940's when Albert and Meyer Bernstein started packaging frozen dinners under the One-Eyed Eskimo label divided into three compartments all on aluminum trays.   The product took off enough that the company expanded it's market, renamed itself the Qu