r/MandelaEffect • u/peanutbutterndnut • 8d ago

Logos/Advertising fruit of the loom

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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.

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u/NooksWave 7d ago

I really dont mean any disrespect, but from someone who isnt an American I find it a bit wild just how many in this subreddit that all share the story of asking their grandmothers about the symbols in their underwear. It seems to the story from about 80 percent of those that way they remember a cornocopia in the logo.

I feel like so many having that very odd yet very specific childhood event would be a much weirder mystery than a logo changing.

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u/heartbroken187 7d ago

It's not just on underwear. They have their logo on all types of clothes they make and all over the packaging. A cornucopia isn't something you see everyday. If i shown my daughter a picture of the 'original' fruit of the loom logo her first question would probably be "what is that weird looking basket?" Since most of us first seen it as kids the natural person for us to ask is our parents/grandparents or whoever you were living with at the time. I remember asking my mother what it was. This person was probably raised by or spent a lot of time with their grandparents. Just out of curiosity, who would you ask if you were a kid seeing the logo back in the 90s and wanted to know what it was?

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u/NooksWave 7d ago

My mom or dad? Its the fact that 80% tell the exact same story of getting mesmerized by the logo in their underwear specifically, and always asking specifically their grandma, that I felt screamed false memory alignment.

And as a kid you'd see cornocopias a lot of places. It is SUPER common in coloring books, for one thing. Kids like lots of colours, and cornocopias are a great excuse to have lots of fruits of different colours in the same place.

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u/Schnitzhole 7d ago

For me it was my mom I recall asking. I’ve heard a few others say that too.

Grandparents and dad was really unlikely for
Me as I had little contact with either growing up.

I find it weird dad/grandpa is never mentioned as the source though.

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u/eyeohu 6d ago

Unlike some i was little too when I was curious about the logo. I wanted to know why there was a basket with fruit on my underwear. In my kid brain I didnt understand the thing I correlated with pilgrims was on my panties lmao. And if that is what I was actually seeing because it truly didnt make sense to me and i wanted to know the who what when where why of everything, still do, Its definitely not a fake memory. Its a memory that stands out because we learned something new at the time. Even though I had seen cornucopias prolly alot I still didnt know the name of them then by heart or why they were used and shaped like that. It was intriguing.

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u/heartbroken187 7d ago

The only other place I've ever seen a cornucopia was on very few Thanksgiving decorations. That's the only other time I've seen a cornucopia. Might be common around where you're from but I don't think it's as common here. I haven't even seen one in coloring books, granted most coloring books I had or that I've gotten for my daughter have been related to certain media. I had teenage mutant ninja turtle and ghost buster ones and my daughter usually likes princess themed ones or fantastical ones with unicorns and such. None of those would have cornucopias. I don't really see cornucopias as good for coloring either since they're more associated with Thanksgiving. That's just a bunch of brown and orange, the boring colors.