Banquet Foods
Banquet Foods is a subsidiary of
TV dinners
.
Banquet was founded in 1953, with the introduction of frozen meat pies. Banquet first hit the store shelves in 1955, offering frozen dinners. Soon after that, Banquet became popular with their Cookin' Bags products. In 1970, the company was purchased by RCA, which in turn sold it to Con-Agra in 1980.
Banquet is known primarily for a frozen
Swift & Company to JBS USA, the popular frozen breakfast sausage line formerly known as "Swift Premium Brown & Serve" was briefly rebranded under the Armour
name, then to "Banquet Brown & Serve" by the end of 2009.
Product incidents
On October 11, 2007, food manufacturer
Kirkwood, Kroger, Meijer, and Western Family Foods. The recalled pot pies included all varieties in 7-oz (200-g) single-serving packages bearing the number P-9 or “Est. 1059” printed on the side of the package.[2]
When the pies returned to the market, cooking temperature requirements for serving were made more apparent on the packaging; competitor brands also followed suit.
See also
- Impact of the 2019–20 coronavirus pandemic on the meat industry in the United States
References
- ISBN 978-0-15-101340-1.
- ^ "Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Infections Associated with Frozen Pot Pies --- United States, 2007". United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. November 28, 2008. Archived from the original on December 1, 2008. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
