The Evening, welcome to the midnight air. It's Thursday, September 12th, if you're listening to this, you can listen to it whenever you want.

But that's the night that I made this episode for you.

I'm glad that you're here. We sort of do whatever we want in the midnight air. Tonight, this

Thursday we're going to be doing a deep dive and we're going to be a deep dive on

the history of TV dinners.

On Monday when I read off the goofy ass

national holidays of the month,

I said it was like I think maybe it's today even I don't remember but it was

TV dinner day so I thought to myself how do we get TV Deaners where do they come from and

what are you know what are our TV dinners today I would just say like as a frozen

burrito a TV dinner it's I think it's a lot of like

lean cuisine but it doesn't you know it all goes back to little trays, little metal

trays that you put in the oven. Anything that I think you buy

that's already done and ready to go you can just consider a TV dinner. But it

all started because there's a the company Bird's Eye and I'll read this to you I pulled a whole bunch of resources together from the Smithsonian mag

com history com how stuff works.

com, tasting table.com,

farmers almanac, mental floss, com.

But it was bird's eye, like your peas and your corn frozen peas frozen corn they

invented it first then they let like how to do it then they let other people run with it and then they took it back over.

So I'm gonna I put all this together we're gonna find out about it. I hope that you find it interesting like I did. I also hope

that it is something to listen to while you clean the house. I don't know. Let's just hang out. Okay, so here's a deal.

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