Spaghetti o’s are ok for me when i’m in the mood. Maybe once a year. I think of it more like tomato soup with noodles. I eat it with a side of pretzels to cut down the sweetness.
I remember Chef Boyardee cheese ravioli being as common as the beef. I never see the cheese anymore. I’d bet the cheese got too expensive for a 99 cent can.
Decads ago, Franco-American actually sold two different types of canned spaghetti. There was the familiar traffic-cone orange sauce, and “Italian style” made without cheese and a darker red sauce. My mother preferred the red stuff for herself, while giving us the kiddie-orange.
I guess the adult-oriented stuff didn’t catch on, or at least died out after stuff like Ragu took over the market.
My daughter used to like spaghetti-O’s until she turned 12 or so. Now she’d rather not eat them
My son never liked them. Didn’t like the sauce.
Love me some Raviolis in a can. But it is very bad for me. 
I know there are dozens of H.P. Lovecraft fans here, so I thought I’d mention that he loved to eat canned spaghetti. Also canned baked beans.
Perhaps if he’d eaten a green vegetable once in a while, he would have lived past 37 and laid a few more good stories on us all.
That’s what I do, when I get a hankering for Spaghetti-Os or other canned pasta: I shake on some Club House “Italiano Seasoning,” and some grated parmesan. That definitely gives it a more adult flavour that kids would probably hate.
I did. You were right to be afraid. The “mac” was mushy, long tubes. If there was any cheese in the sauce, they did a good job of hiding it. I liked Spaghetti-O’s when I was a kid (God help me), but even I couldn’t tolerate the mac and cheese.
Pop quiz - HP Lovecraft wrote:
“A monster of vaguely anthropoid outline, but with an octopus-like head whose face was a mass of feelers, a scaly, rubbery-looking body, prodigious claws on hind and fore feet, and long, narrow wings behind.”
Your question - description of [A] statue of Cthulhu or ** peering into a can of spaghetti?
For canned pasta with a more tomato-y sauce go to Campbell’s. They put their extensive tomato soup knowledge to use in the pasta cans.
A restaurant we frequent often has rosamarina soup (tomato soup with little noodles in it), which the waitress describes as being “like Spaghettios for grown-ups”. It’s pretty good, though my memories of Spaghettios are faint and distant enough that I’m not sure how close the comparison is.