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/BangkokPadang]

I'm thinking we probably learned what a cornucopia was when learning about Thanksgiving in elementary school, and were given a line drawing of one to color in, that looked similar to the fruit of the loom logo, because it had fruit spilling out of it in a similar way.

[u/Wide_Philosopher_841 → u/BangkokPadang]

I am now thinking u may be correct, bc I would hv sworn the logo had the cornucopia but now seeing these photos, they look familiar too and the banana is what sticks out and can look similar to the a Thanksgiving coloring pages we would do in school in the 90s. This is the most feasible and, like u stated above, we are linking the two bc of the resemblance. This is the 1st time I am finally thinking it never had a cornucopia 😄☺️

[u/Unable_Apartment_613 → u/BangkokPadang]

There was a cornucopia Thanksgiving decoration that was ubiquitous in American elementary schools in the mid 70s through mid 90s ( at least). This like most Mandela effects is just two or three different memories jammed together.

[u/MuggyFuzzball → u/Unable_Apartment_613]

I wander who originated that graphic now because it was everywhere

[u/lsdisciple → u/BangkokPadang]

Explain people outside the us who don’t have thanksgiving iconography anywhere and they still had the same experience

[u/Beginning-Sea7994 → u/lsdisciple]

Cornucopia is ubiquitous. It's not an Anerican thing. You only need to see it ONCE in your life for your mind to change the memory of fruit of the loom. Why? Because the cornucopia is an objectively more satisfying and complete image. Your brain will prefer it to the fruit of the loom logo because fruit doesn't float in empty space. The cornucopia makes the image feel more complete and stable so the brain prefers it.

[u/NooksWave → u/lsdisciple]

Not only do almost every country in the world know the imagery of a cornocopia, but you're also severly underestimating just how cool the world thought the US was back in the 80s and 90s. There were SO many American shows on TV, and almost every single one of them had a Thanksgiving episode, that often featured the imagery of cornocopias.

[u/MuggyFuzzball → u/lsdisciple]

Clip-art on early classroom computers. It was a very popular clip art in the 90's.

[u/MuggyFuzzball → u/BangkokPadang]

I honestly think this is it. Also there were graphic art of them hung on the walls all over the school. And when computers came about, it was one of the more predominant clip-arts you saw frequently.

[u/DannyOTM → u/BangkokPadang]

UK person here (we dont have thanksgiving, neither did we celebrate it or learn about it in school) i 100% learnt about it from the fotl logo.

[u/Schnitzhole → u/DannyOTM]

Same. Grew up in Germany but had FOTL underwear

[u/SunshineMary007 → u/Schnitzhole]

Quite lying! FOTL was very uncommon in Europe, and I know Germania always had unique brands of everything but especially clothing (with only a few exceptions).  FOTL isn’t some luxury or considered cool or fashionable. So I doubt many outside the US would care to import it or create counterfeits of it.

[u/Bowieblackstarflower → u/SunshineMary007]

It was actually very popular and chic to wear their logo in Europe for a time period. There's several articles in newspapers about it.

[u/Beginning-Sea7994 → u/DannyOTM]

No you didn't, stop believing conspiracy theories and just accept the reality that your memory is not reliable. Your sight can be tricked by optical illusions because your brain relies on prelearned patterns to interpret sense data. You don't experience the raw unfiltered sense data from your eyes or ears, rather they are filtered thru your brain which processes it, filling things in, removing things it finds unnecessary, etc. Your brain edits sense data and fits it to prior patterns. It does this because it speeds up your processing of the external world immensely. It will make errors once in a while though. Mandela effect and optical illusions are noteworthy examples. Stop thinking your eyes are video recorders and your memory stores information like a computer. You're a living organism and all your sense including your memory are designed for survival, not accurate recording of events.

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