[munk-a]

TV Dinners are absolutely loaded with salt, sugar and hard fats so they taste good while being frozen. If I cook a delicious meal and then chuck it into the freezer for three months it will taste like crap because freezing is not an effective method to preserve taste and texture, to make it palatable after an extended period of time I need to add flavour enhancers like sugar (it's addictive and works on anything), sodium (it enhances flavours directly and salt is a common craving) and hard fats (ones that won't break down as quickly when frozen.

I think America really has figured out the difference and that information is pretty easily accessible - but if you're working twelve hours then you'll grab the five dollar TV dinner and just ignore the downsides.