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[–] [email protected] 91 points 8 months ago (4 children)

I not only remember the cornucopia one, but I thought this was the reason I learned the word cornucopia when I was a kid. Most Mandela effect stuff is kind of silly to me, but this one just freaks me out.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You probably learned cornucopia from thanksgiving, that's how I learned it. Also, google cornucopia and basically every image looks like the fruit of the loom logo but with the horn behind it. It's pretty obvious that people are so used to seeing the cornucopia imagery that when it's combined with the fruit of the loom logo their brains go "yeah that looks right" and just assume that it must've been that at some point.

Mandela effects are fun and I understand the appeal but anyone who takes them seriously is straight up just not using their critical thinking skills.

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[–] [email protected] 83 points 8 months ago (4 children)

The wicker conch was there when I was a kid, 100%, but maybe it was regional?

Or maybe they realised getting rid of the conch would save them a million dollars in printing costs over five years (or whatever) and quietly removed it?

[–] [email protected] 91 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Just so you know, that brown thing is called a cornucopia! Literally "horn of abundance" in Latin.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Growing up, I always referred to it, and always heard it referred to as, a horn o' plenty.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Your mom referred to something else as the horn o'plenty..

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (7 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago (1 children)

This one is the perfect example because I also remember it having the cornucopia despite it never being there in the official product. I would bet that the memory comes from the brain mashing together similar looking artwork from Thanksgiving.

Note: a memory is still a memory even if it isn't accurate, because memories aren't perfect.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago

Or it wasn't and you're just mistaken. You can find vintage underwear and t shirts on ebay from fotl back in the 70's and 80's right now. It isn't there. Also, snopes.com deemed it false.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

I’ve 100% seen the cornucopia version in the past. The only reasonable explanation I can think of is that perhaps people have used the fan-made one without realizing it? It’s a better explanation than parallel universes, at least ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[–] [email protected] 26 points 8 months ago (11 children)

Perhaps the more reasonable explanation is that you're misremembering.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Are you suggesting that I'm the one at fault? How preposterous! /s

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 8 months ago (6 children)

I would swear my undergarments had the cornucopia logo when I was growing up. I actually remember the point in my life where I saw the logo without it and assumed they decided to modernize.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Ditto, but I had a spooky event preceding that. A black robed guy wearing a wide brimmed hat (think Vatican Elite or something) walked into my uncle's bedroom when I was a kid and held up two white T-shirts from Fruit of the Loom on brightly colored plastic clothes hangers, and said:

"We're thinking about changing the logo, do you prefer this traditional one, or this modern one?"

And, me, being small child babu and scared out of my mind by having a tall, pale, black garment dressed figure in the room with round sunglasses went:

"Modern. It's the Year 2000 coming up, the new millennium. Everything has to change."

He laughed and thanked me for my time and then walked THROUGH THE WALL to leave, not through a door.

The next year, 9/11 happened, and everything changed. Still boils my brains.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (2 children)

That kind of thing used to happen a lot.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 8 months ago (13 children)

I'll apologise now for the tiktok link, i know how much this place hates tiktok but here is a woman who did a deep dive and found evidence that the company actually changed their logo and tried to scrub the existence of the Cornucopia from the internet to distance themselves from Bad PR.

https://www.tiktok.com/@dimelifting/video/7311071477732838687

[–] [email protected] 46 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Not so sure I believe this one. I can't find any evidence that this is real, but I am finding a lot that shows it was never part of the logo. For example, this needle package from 1967 doesn't have one and there isn't a single trademark owned by them, past or present, that has the cornucopia in it.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 8 months ago (2 children)

So here i am, minding my business on a Friday afternoon and this guy, this guy comes in with a tiktok link! And I'm all like hrrrnnnggggggggggg ehhhhhhhhhhhh but you know what I'll let it slide today. It's nice out, gonna bbq later if it doesn't rain. What the hell, right? You go ahead and do your tiktoks and if anyone gives you hell about it just remember this guy said he's giving you a pass

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

That woman has already been caught spreading fake/photoshopped shit multiple times. The TikTok conspiracy is that it’s a coverup for a chemical spill at a factory that Fruit of the Loom didn’t even own at the time.

Detroit Free Press

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (2 children)

I like this idea but it’s hard to believe that nobody can produce a pair of underwear or t-shirt from the 70s that they found in their basement/attic

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago

Tiktokkers will say anything that feeds them views. FotL is probably paying influencers to make this content for publicity

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 8 months ago (11 children)

This is the longest and most confusing Snopes article I have ever read. I feel like the Mandela Effect is clawing at the boundaries of its containment, trying to escape and start to change day-to-day things about my home and the people around me.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago (2 children)

SAME. I know without a doubt the brown cornucopia was part of the fruit logo.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

I don't have this one, but I will cut you if you call them The Bearenstain Bears.

I am not crazy! I know they swapped those letters! I learned to read with Bearenstein. I knew it was Bearenstein. One after See Spot Run. As if I could make such a mistake. Never. Never!

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago (2 children)

But doesn't the front on both says Berenstain in cursive or am I reading it wrong?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 8 months ago (2 children)

It's neither of those. You're putting "bear" into it. Lmao. It's Berenstain.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 8 months ago (1 children)

You’re wrong too. It’s the Bearenstain Bares, because it was a book about nudists.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Oh God this is even worse. We've split again!

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

I think a lot of us just mispronounced it. As an American "stain" seems like a lot less common of a name ending than "stein". Easy to gloss over a spelling in a long word.

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (19 children)

This one is freaky, but it just comes from the strong cultural association between imagery of big ol' piles of produce and cornucopias. We expect one to be there so our brain tries to helpfully fill in the "gap" in our memory for us.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 months ago

With the prevalence of cornucopias used in Thanksgiving artwork and how we (people in the US) were force-fed all of it growing up, I imagine allowed the juxtaposition

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago

Chances are, if it's corporate, you're not crazy.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (5 children)

I'm not aware of what fruit of the loom is but tbh i think they should add it, the logo just doesn't look right without it (it's color palette improves the logo and makes it more square-ish)

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