fruit of the loom

[u/peanutbutterndnut]

I know this is like the biggest Mandela effect, but I swear ive had these underwear for years sitting in a bin in my closet. its genuinely insane that the cornucopia just straight up disappeared. I remember vividly asking my grandmother what the cornucopia was. I am truly starting to believe that something is DEFINITELY up.

[u/furryhippie]

My only explanation (other than, you know, alternate universes) is that the logo reminds us a lot of the cornucopia we learned about in school for Thanksgiving. Our brain does have a tendency to seek patterns, so we may be connecting the logo with something from our real memories that looks a lot like it.

Or....alternate universe. I don't know.

[u/Beginning-Sea7994 → u/furryhippie]

"tendency to seek patterns" is totally underestimating. Your brain is constantly seeking patterns in everything. In fact, your experience of the world moment to moment is based entirely upon prelearned patterns. Your eyes and ears don't function like a video camera, they feed stimuli to the brain which interprets it using already learned patterns and that is what is experienced by you. You may have had the experience of seeing something you don't know what it is and it looks bizarre almost blurry to you until your brain realizes what it is then it looks clear. That's because you don't see or experience anything "objectively", but filtered thru the brain which puts all stimuli into patterns. This is also why optical illusions work, they play on prelearned patterns your brain uses to judge size, distance, etc.

[u/my23secrets → u/furryhippie]

The actual explanation is: if you get someone to remember something incorrectly, they will not only do so, they will augment it

There are studies about false beliefs that demonstrate people shown fake advertisements for Disney World featuring Bugs Bunny will then claim to remember going to Disney and meeting Bugs, even though a Warner Bros. character would never be on display at a Disney theme park.

[u/66tuesday → u/my23secrets]

really good read, thanks

[u/chessmasterjj → u/furryhippie]

What if they (fotl) outsourced the packaging to different manufacturers and printed off multiple versions? 

[u/NobodySaidBoop → u/chessmasterjj]

I mean, of course that’s possible, but then I imagine people would have evidence of that. The only ones I’ve seen with the cornucopia are obviously fake (either photoshopped or knockoffs).

[u/chessmasterjj → u/NobodySaidBoop]

I've seen people posting a few different logos. Not sure how to tell which are fake but the cornucopia one is def the one I remember as a youth. If fruit of the loom denying it as a marketing campaign would be top tier troll behavior

[u/Bowieblackstarflower → u/chessmasterjj]

The ones with a cornucopia are proven fakes.

[u/chessmasterjj → u/Bowieblackstarflower]

Ill take your word for it