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[cuddyclothes.livejournal.com]

Glurk! D:

[gatepromise.livejournal.com]

Actually, that looks rather yummy.

Look at the silver tray, long before microwaves....

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Mmmm, it does look nummy!

[afranjes.livejournal.com]

I was just about to say the same thing.

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

I used to eat those as a kid, and they were good to me, then. They were rare treats for me and my brother, so we could sit in front of the tv and watch a Disney special.


Wouldn't touch 'em if you paid me, now, lol.

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

I am so embarrassed to admit this - but I absolutely LOVED the turkey dinner. The stuffing was seasoned nicely and the gravy could be used on the mashed potato. The turkey was always moist, too! Something my mother could never seem to accomplish.

[violetscorpion.livejournal.com]

I still love the turkey dinner. =)

[write-light.livejournal.com]

I can assure you, the peas SO do not look that good. Someone has spray-painted them with high-gloss and arranged them by hand. I'm glad they explained that it's 20% more *than before*.

[tresjolie9.livejournal.com]

Oh I know, and remembering how each sesame seed was glued onto a sesame seed bun back in the day, before photoshop!

[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

is it just me, or do they look marble-sized here? i've NEVER seen peas that big, ever.

[hippie-chick.livejournal.com]

Ah the old aluminum trays!! And I did like this one, it really didn't taste bad at all. Not home made of course, but not horrible. :)

I also liked the Swiss Steak. Also the German one from the International Menu. Yeah, I don't know WHAT I was thinking. I mean what IS "Sauerbraten Gravy" anyway? Maybe I don't want to know. ;)

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

It's best we don't think about it.

[saintly-heretic.livejournal.com]

beautiful

[cm1greenbear.livejournal.com]

it took me scrolling past this picture four times before i realised the 'eggs' were actually mashed potatos with butter :BBBBBBB

[saintly-heretic.livejournal.com]

ahaha lol your comment is what brought me to this disgusting realization

[realpestilence.livejournal.com]

Those peas really leap out at you, don't they?

[hutchlover.livejournal.com]

"yum"? Really?

That looks terrible. Not as bad as the fish-salmon thingy, but still - it's probably instant potatoes, the peas look plastic, the stuffing beneath looks like dog food. Only the turkey & gravy look appetizing to me.

On the other hand, it beats cooking a whole turkey for only three people.

[promisemewings.livejournal.com]

MAN, I wish TV dinners still looked that appealing.

I have a crummy pic on my cellphone of the Banquet turkey microwave dinner I had at work on Thanksgiving last year. So depressing.

[whoseline_wlsc]

Looks like my Thanksgiving dinner from last year, a TV dinner. It wasn't so bad though.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

NGL. When I was a kid, I loved how the mashed potatoes absorbed just the right amount of metallic taste to give them a little twang. I'm kind of horrified to think about it now and I wonder how much aluminum is still lurking in my system. I ate a LOT of these as a kid.

[deborahkla.livejournal.com]

Ahhh, yes, those lovely silver trays, the dried turkey slices drowning in brown "gravy", the peas, the potatoes, the TV table...it's all coming back to me. Yes, they did taste good, and they were a treat, because you got to eat in front of the TV instead of at the dinner table. Does anybody eat at the dinner table any more? Mine is covered with all kinds of projects, so now I eat on the sofa in front of TV all the time, which officially makes me a member of the great unwashed.

[meezergal.livejournal.com]

I eat sitting on the sofa, in front of the TV or precariously balancing a book in one hand, all the time. The cats are generally either begging at my feet or, worse yet, trying to grab food off my plate.

I have a perfectly good table and chairs, too. *sigh*

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

I have no imagination. The dining room table is for dining. But usually only when I have company. When it's just me I'll bring my dinner to my comfy chair and read-n-eat.

[cionaudha.livejournal.com]

I love the high-intensity super-saturated colors! And the cheerful mug o'milk!

My comedy boyfriend Lewis Black got me right when he coined the phrase "milk fuck junky". Am I the only milk-drinker left?

I was never allowed to taste the forbidden pleasures of a tv dinner: which of course makes this all very tantalizing.

[write-light.livejournal.com]

They do still exist. Stroll by the freezer section and DENY YOURSELF NO LONGER. ;D

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

I'd totally eat that.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

This turkey meal was the first ever TV dinner, and is still available in basically the same configuration. Cooking one of those in the oven took at least 45 minutes. So it was convenient, but by no means fast.

This is kind of luxurious by modern standards, since the sliced meat is fully identifiable. Most frozen meals now seem to be made with various types of flaked and formed patties. But they microwave in less than five minutes.

[lauren5678.livejournal.com]

What is the clumpy stuff around the turkey? It looks too chunky to be gravy.

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Stuffing?

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

Yup. And it was good..you could actually taste sage and onion.

[njbearcub1.livejournal.com]

I always liked how the exposed part of the stuffing was crunchy, and the part covered by the turkey was moist.

[herbadness.livejournal.com]

We didn't get to eat TV dinners when we were kids. I would have loved eating off of a silver tray.

Notice there is no "dessert"? No starchy pudding or apple pie?

This was indeed down home goodness; two veggies plus stuffing for extra starch.

[glass-houses.livejournal.com]

Eurgh, looks like a runny, clotty egg and glistening green rabbit poop.

[corridor7f.livejournal.com]

Ick. The mashed taters look like a mound of snow with a spritz of dog pee.