Thu 17 Mar 2005
Ronnie at the office often brings in a variety of TV dinners for lunch. He doesn’t seem to have any preference for any type of TV dinner whether it be a Healthy Choice TV Dinner, Lean Cuisine TV Dinner or the classic Swanson’s Hungry Man TV Dinner.
When it comes to TV Dinners though, Hungry Man is really the quintessential TV dinner. I mean what comes to mind when you purchase and consume a TV Dinner anyhow?
- Apple cobbler desserts?
- Convenience (i.e. laziness to cook)
- Fried, Greasy pieces of meat (mystery or other varieties)
- Being an absolute bum on the couch watching late night TV
- 5 mins in the microwave for soggy food vs 45 mins in the oven for crispier chicken?
Hungry Man TV Dinners are all about large portions of food without any notions of being healthy. After all do ‘hungry men’ actually care about calories, carbs or fat intake?
Hungry Man TV Dinners – What about the taste?
Well unless you have a craving for stale airline food or like to eat meat with shards of ice crystals, you really can’t expect an ultra gourmet meal out of a Hungry Man TV Dinner. It’s just a quick fix to get you food while you veg in front of the TV.
This Hungry Man TV Dinner had 2 white meat chicken steaks with mashed potatoes, a side of corn and a chocolate brownie.
Except check out this brownie:
It’s got chunks of corn inside the brownie!!! What a sick joke by the people of Swansons.
Haha!!!! I Love it!!!
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Does Swanson still make the Hungry-man Dinners? I can’t find the name on the box anymore
I’ve eaten the dinners for a few years now and enjoy them, I don’t really care that sometimes the food is mixed up. It’s all going to the same place, so whats the difference. I personally find the Turkey and mashed potatoes , the buffalo style chicken very good.
I just had the one shown with 2 pieces of white meat boneless chicken, brownie, corn, and potatoes and thought that it satisfied my momentary hunger. I believe that it is an excellent value for what it is and what it does… which is to fill the hungry man. No complaints and just 2 thumbs up for this great quick fix.
I tried this chicken dinner for the first time tonight. Very appetizing picture, price was OK at $2.92. It was a fast and easy TV dinner, and quite tasty too. Corn wasn’t in my brownie, only a few kernels had fallen into my potatoes. Two thumbs up from me too.
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Just a comment. Tried your THREE (3) piece chicken dinner. First one I ever tried.
It will be my last one. Only it had two pieces in the HUNGRY MAN dinner. Since when does two small pieces of chicken make a meal?
You got me once But you wont get a second chance to sell me anything.
What a surprise, more than half of these comments are from women. laff. Go rant on something where YOU are the demographic…
I haven’t had a Hungry Man until recently ( several months) and every single one of the dinners (turkey & chicken breast) seemed to be defrosted at some point then refrozen. I must say i bought these dinners on and off for many years, and i don’t recall them beinf as bad as they are now. About 3 weeks ago i got deathly sick from eating a hungry man and i promised myself i’d never purchase another one. Well, being me, i gave them another chance. At this very moment i have a turkey dinner that i heated up, even though the food is scattered about. Corn in desert, gravy leaking out sides of dinner and on potatoes (gee i think the company can put a bit more mash potato in the dinners, but back to my problem. i tasted the dinner and it had the most awful taste. So, me being me, said maybe it’s just the gravy. So i tried the potato desert and no kidding, it was terrible.That was the last straw i am so afraid of getting deathly sick again from eating these dinners I don’t understand how these dinners get in the condition they get in. Could be when they leave the factory the flimsy plastic covering loosens so when packaging it flies over the other food. I must say it isn’t very appealing to the eye, like the box shows us, but more importantly who wanrs to get so sick u want to die from eating something ? I always used these dinners as i was cooking dinner to hold me off till my dinner was cooked, and my child liked them also. But for the last several months i am getting more and more disillousioned about this company getting their act together. I’m really disappointed cause the taste wasn’t bad years ago, and it did work for me as more a snack than a dinner. I’m sure i will not buy them anytime soon, but after a while i just might try them again. Maybe i’m a glutton for punishment, i really don’t know lol..ty for listening, and plz plz Hungry Man take more care in the making and the refrigeration of the dinners. I’m sure you don’t want loads of sick people on your hands.
I can’t get onto the Hungry man web site to compain, so maybe this will help.
I just tried to eat a hungry man beef pot roast dinner. This is one of the worst meals I have ever tried to eat. Microwaving it as per instructions, the brownie was still all liquid. Another half minute almost had it done. The beef was so tough there was no way I could chew it. The veggies were still almost like raw. Even with the rediculous amount of salt, there was hardly any taste at all. The tiny amount of mashed potatoes were at least edible, but not tasty. The brownie was more like a pudding, but at least had a little taste to it. At least my dogs got some chewing exercise from the beef that I couldn’t eat.
Lynn
I AIN’T NO DAGO SO I CAN’T SPELL WHAT I JUST CONSUMED LAS0GNA OR SOMETHING RESEMBLEING IT WHAT IS THAT TURD SHAPED PIECE OF BREAD THAT DOG FOOD TASTED BETTER THAN ALSO THE PRINT IS SO SMALL YOU NEED SPECIAL GLASSES TO READ THE INSTRUCTIONS WHO ASSEMBLES THESE THINGS AWAY PABLO FROM PANNAMAOR CARLOS FROM CUBAOR JAMIE FROM JAMACA
IBET IT IS SOME EXCON CRACKHEAD I TRIED TO EAT ONE OF THOSE SO-CALLED BROWNIES ONCE MY DOG CREATES BETTER REPLICAS IN THE YARD YOU HEAT THE FOOD AS PER THE INSTRUCTIONS LET IT COOL DOWN IN ITS PLASTIC PAN EVERYTHING STICKS TO THEN IT STILLS SCALLS YOUR MOUTH SWANSONS NEEDS TO BE ARRESTED FOR COUNTERFIT FOOD YOU HAVE TO TAKE MEGA DOSES OF LAXITIVES FOR A WEEK AFTER THE ORDEAL DOES RALSTON PURINA REALLY OWN IT LIKE JACK-N-THE BOX I HOPE THEY ARE SOLVENT MY LAWYER IS GOING TO MAKE ME RICH RES IPSA LOQIDOR
Say what you want about Hungry Man dinners, but THEY GOT BEEF AND RICE IN BOURBON SAUCE!
After reading the comments of everyone else, I have to agree with many of them. There’s probably very little if any quality control at all. Yes there needs to be an “XTRA-HUNGRY MAN” portion as well so we can pay even more for crappola-on-a-tray! Is there any company out there that serves-up a more “quality” menu of crap?
Swanson, as a “leader” in the field could and should try and clean-up their act…kinda hard to do because of all of the money they keep taking to the bank! Coupons?…WHAT THE HELL??? Pay the full price for that delicious under-cooked/frozen/re-thawed/re-frozen delight!
Hungry-Man is the best TV dinner I have ever had. The grilled steak in bourbon sauce is AWESOME! I also love the sports grill ones with the cheese fries.
the commercial is hilarious too. YEA HUNGRYMAN!!!!!!!!!!
I JUST HAD THE HONOR OF EATING A HUNG MAN CHICKEN DINNER.POTATOES LIKE WALLPAPER PASTE ONLY DRIER.CORN PASSABLE,CHICKEN UGH!!!! I GAVE TO MY DOG AND HE SPENT 10 MINUTES LICKING HIS REAR TO GET THE TASTE OUT OF HIS MOUTH.NEEDLESS TO SAY I WILL NOT BUY ANY MORE OF THIS PRODUCT.
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OMG, I am sorry for that (and your dog). What is going on with Hungry Man TV dinners?
I just heated up a second Hungryman Country Fried Beef Patties. The grave is the same in both of these and it’s not like the heavy gravy you get in a regular restaraunt. It is more like soup or water. I thought that the first time I heated one up, I may have made a mistake in reading the instructions for microwave. But I was careful the second time and the gravy is the same, very watery.
Is this the way it is suppose to be?
We used to think Hungry man dinners were very good. Now I see that you have quite putting meat into your Mexican Fiesta dinners. If I wanted beans and rice with some sauce I’m sure I could find it a lot cheaper and make it myself. Also, is the only dessert you have “brownies”… Well, you can be assured that you have lost a customer who used to buy several of your meals each month. No more, I can assure you.
what do you expect you ubertard, it’s processed junk!
After having read the comments about Hungry Man Dinners both pro & con I have these comments:
I’ve been eating tv dinners for approximately 45 yrs and con honestly say that the Hungry Man Turkey Dinner is the best turkey dinner on the market. I also enjoy the Salsbury Steak and also the Chicken dinners. As to the presence of, or mixing of the dinner components, it doesn’t take rocket science to figure out that probably all of this is due to careless handling during transportation after leaving the plant in a frozen state. At some point the dinners are becoming partially thawed, allowing jostling around to toss a few kernals of corn or green beans over into the dessert section next to it. They end up in frozen storage at a distribution center and are then transferred to the final sales point where it is transferred to the frozen food storage freezer and later to the display freezers. If thats not enough to shake up any brand of tv dinner then one can only assume then that its some vast left wing conspiracy!
Speaking from experience, Hungry Man TV dinners are among the best, most satisfying TV dinner known to man. I started with Kid Cuisine, moved on to Banquets, but graduated to the mother of all TV dinners: Hungry Man. The Turkey dinner is amazing, my first bite of the stuffing was easily a mental landmark, a highlight of my career. The beef steak patty, whatever it’s called, is some of the best meat I have ever tasted. And the brownies–well, nothing beats the brownies. Sure, as a brownie they’re great, but the real treat? Eating them frozen. Yep, before you put your delicious feast in the microwave, eat the brownie first. It is truly magnificent. I’ve had other dinner brownies and they just can’t compare to what Hungry Man brings to the table. If you want a great meal, look no further than Hungry Man.
Lol u stupid bitc*, HUNGRY MAN DINNERS ARE THE. FUC*ING. BOMB. BITCH!??!!??!?! shiy….. man i JUST HAD THE HUNGRY MAN BEER BATTERED CHICKEN AND CHEESE FRIES THAT SHI* WAS TIGHT MAN!!!!!!!!!!!! lol at this stupid bitc* complaining about hungry man dinners, do us a favor and shut the fuck up, the dinners not for skinny bitches. PARTY ON HUNGRY MAN DINNER!!!!!!!
HEY I JUST ATE ONE OF THESE AFTER I FINISHED WORKING OUT…I MEAN MAN…THIS THING HAS LIKE CLOSE TO 40 G O PROTEIN! MORE THAT A PROTEIN SHAKE…I love these..well some but the fillets are soggy ..id recommend the classic chicken not the boneless…but this is has 1000 cal. per meal…. 2 of these and your done for the day…..
if you cant get full of a hungry man then you are a obese man