Reply #15: We were talking about TV dinners. If you want to talk about all frozen foods, fine. [View All]

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Frozen foods were popular as soon as refrigerated train cars were invented. With frozen foods, people were able to enjoy foods that were not in season, or could not be locally produced. Additionally, they were able to buy many foods more cheaply, as certain regions can produce certain foods more cheaply than other regions. To claim that they would have died out without WW2 is unsubstantiated nonsense. They were popular before WW2 (and mass-produced frozen food was steadily rising in popularity for over a decade before America's involvement with the war), and remained popular after WW2.

By allowing a wider range and variety of foods to reach more people for less money, frozen foods increased nutrition and health. By preventing people from being entirely dependent on the fortunes of local growers, they decreased food insecurity. Changes were driven by people's desires, not by some shadowy authority's demands.