Here at The Gallery of the Absurd I have always tried to showcase only contemporary advertisements, signs, and labels. Older marketing strategies have always stuck me as easy targets. It takes little effort to laugh at something from a distance of several decades. However, over the past couple of years, a number of Gallery watchers have asked for these kind of retro ads, and after careful consideration, I thought I'd add a new weekly feature that we'll call
RETRO-ADTIVITY
Our first entry in the Retro-Adtivity special feature is a label from the 1950s:

Hey Johnny, get your hands out of your pockets!
Given that these were supposedly vegetables from Texas, one could reference the exchange between Sergeant Hartman and Private Cowboy in Full Metal Jacket. But that would be in bad taste.