Oh how things change. Cheap, abundant food, and no physical labor.
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I think adding weight via ironized yeast during the depression era was very popular. I guess it made you look well fed, ergo well-to-do, and therefore “appealing.” I wonder if its somehow just the opposite today.
I think that it’s always been the wealthy that are fatter and better fed. It’s all turned around now with cheap food and low-labor work. I just thought the add was amusing.