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The Five Worst TV Dinners in Honor of National TV Dinner Day

National TV Dinner Day happened. Which is probably as underwhelming as the frozen chunks of processed "food" this day attempts to celebrate. So let's discuss the horrifying, shameful crap hidden in the back of your freezer, shall we? Specifically, the worst ones to ever exist in the frozen tundra wasteland...
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National TV Dinner Day happened. Which is probably as underwhelming as the frozen chunks of processed "food" this day attempts to celebrate. So let's discuss the horrifying, shameful crap hidden in the back of your freezer, shall we? Specifically, the worst ones to ever exist in the frozen tundra wasteland of the grocery store.

1. Hungry Man. Aside from being borderline sexist (women get hungry too, ya dicks), Hungry Man is gross if only because its claim to greatness is the "Over 1 lb of Food!"on the packaging. Great. Because that's what you want your husband to shove into his face before you both crawl into a pile of fart-trapping flannel sheets, a pound of processed food!

2. Lean Cuisine

Have you ever been forced by circumstance to horf down one of these blocks of icy shitfish surrounded by some kind of flaccid starch and sad broccoli? Holy colon spasm, it's so bad. And never gets me to 4 p.m. safely.

3. Kid Cuisine

If you have kids in your life, you know these are not only just slightly more palatable than a dead rat but also a complete engineering failure. Multiple foods with multiple heating demands and everything gets nuked at one billion degrees for four minutes and your kids gets frozen pizza and a block of pudding charcoal that's hotter than the surface of the fucking sun. At least that duck on the box is fun to look at while you make something else for your kid.

4. Marie Callender's Chicken Pot Pie

Your argument is invalid. Nothing sold for three dollars is also worth six hours in the oven. That's just a strange, disproportionate way of feeding yourself.

5. This thing

A little dry, in my humble opinion.

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