I first suspected it might be AI or photoshop, but there are people selling vintage newspaper versions of the ad on ebay, so I don’t think it is. If that turns out to be wrong I’ll remove this post. The brand traded under this name from 1880 to 2004 and is now owned by Campbell.
The company’s 1950s ads feel a bit off. That’s not just me, right? 1956:
Here’s one of their 1800s ads, which doesn’t give me spaghetti-cult vibes. It seems more like the style a lot of ads were in the 1800s.
It never occurred to me to google it but there is a NOFX song called Franco Unamerican and I never realized it probably had to do with a reference to this brand. Never heard of it before now. TIL
That was also my first thought