Invention and view of the original TV dinner

interview with Gerry Thomas, the inventor, of the Swanson company views of the original pewter tray Its a pleasure being identified as the person who did this because it changed the way people live, he said in a 1999 Associated Press interview. Its part of the fabric of our society. I really didn't invent the dinner. I innovated the tray on how it could be served, coined the name and developed some unique packaging........ If I'm the father of the TV dinner, whos the mother? I think its ludicrous.