No idea, either. Probably just to fill the pages and maybe to amaze the reader and spend more time on the ad pages. I have a german edition of a Battletech no

No idea, either. Probably just to fill the pages and maybe to amaze the reader and spend more time on the ad pages. I have a german edition of a Battletech novel, which has a similar ad for the same 5-min-soup, and the ad itself introduces the blacked out lines.