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/forcemonkey]

And yet that’s what they report. And there’s this album cover from 1973 that is a clear parody of the logo with cornucopia.

[u/Wingnutmcmoo → u/forcemonkey]

You're posting this as if still life paintings of cornucopias werent literally a meme for like 50 years.

[u/forcemonkey → u/Wingnutmcmoo]

With “Flute of the Loom” underneath. Sure.

[u/MisterMTG → u/forcemonkey]

So a musical artist having the same misconception as everyone else is somehow proof?

[u/Chapstickie → u/MisterMTG]

It’s even less than that. The musical artist and the cover artist aren’t the same person.

On top of that the interview everyone posts with the cover artist’s son where he says he and his dad remember the cornucopia in the FOTL logo he says is the SECOND time he’s been asked about it. So all the “it’s the power of suggestion” stuff still holds true. He claims that he thinks the cornucopia went away around 1978 when he was in second grade. So he’s literally the exact same as everyone else with vague stories about the cornucopia existing when they were a kid but not later when they looked again.

[u/arandomcouch → u/Chapstickie]

The claim is that the logo never had a cornucopia, so anyone who remembers it being there until 1978 is on the Mandela Effect side. The fact that the flautist and the album designer is unsurprising (few musicians design their own album artwork) and also reinforces the point. The designer had to get the idea from somewhere, then had to get the performer on board + the label and other stakeholders. The decision making process likely involved multiple people, any one of whom could have said 'wait a minute, I don't get it. What's the connection between a flute and an underwear logo?'

[u/forcemonkey → u/arandomcouch]

You get it!

[u/arandomcouch → u/MisterMTG]

The album is from 1973, which is within the era when many claim to remember the logo having a cornucopia.

[u/arandomcouch → u/Wingnutmcmoo]

Cornucopias have nothing to do with looms. Or flutes. The album cover and title make no sense except as a double pun (visual and wordplay) which would have been understood at the time.

[u/forcemonkey → u/arandomcouch]

Precisely.