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• BBC's Woman's Hour debated if frozen food was here to stay in 1949.
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• The first TV chef was Philip Harben, who cooked frozen nephrops tails — later known as scampi — on his show in 1953.
• The battle of the fish finger was fought in 1954 between Eskimo Frozen Foods and Birds Eye. Most of you will be aware that Birds Eye is still around...
• UK frozen food spending reached £4.7bn by 2000.
• Harrods sold probably the first own-label frozen food, with frozen fish and chips in 1964.
• Frozen curries, lasagnes and chillies arrived in the 1970s.
• Bernard Matthews became one of the biggest names in the frozen food industry with the launch of Turkey Breast Roast in 1980.
• Research by the Frozen Food Information Service revealed that a number of people would trade their partner before their freezer.
Source: British Frozen Food Fedwation