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Swanson is a brand of TV dinners, broths and canned poultry made for the Hong Kong and North American markets. It was founded in Omaha, Nebraska, where it invented the frozen dinner. The TV dinner business is owned by Pinnacle Foods. The broth business is owned by the Campbell Soup Company.

The Swanson Company's first frozen dinner was a turkey dinner. The company later added beef and chicken dinners. With over half of American households having televisions, the Swanson brothers called their frozen meals TV dinners.

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  • Frozen Swanson chicken pot pie, June 2018

    Swanson chicken pot pie

  • 2020-02-27 00 31 49 A Hungry-Man Country Fried Chicken TV dinner before being heated in the Franklin Farm section of Oak Hill, Fairfax County, Virginia

    A Swanson "Hungry-Man Country Fried Chicken" TV dinner

  • HK CWB Tai Hang Moreton Terrace Bus Station Citybus 592 Swanson ads

    A bus advertising Swanson broth in Hong Kong in 2008

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