I had to google all the nouns in this post.
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?
I think a time traveler fucked up and the cornucopia is an echo from another timeline.
Just so you know, that brown thing is called a cornucopia! Literally “horn of abundance” in Latin.
Growing up, I always referred to it, and always heard it referred to as, a horn o’ plenty.
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Your mom referred to something else as the horn o’plenty…
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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.
That sounds plausible, but then why do I, in the Netherlands, have this too? We have no thanksgiving and no thanksgiving imagery.
So where did the association come from? There has to be something that caused us to all have that false memory. Tv show or movie maybe
Still lifes?
So intense a mystery so immediately solved, thanks.
Knock off products were quite rampant in us throughout the 80s and 90s. That’s my guess.
American Thanksgiving
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.
I always remember Publix had a cornucopia.
My theory is bootlegs.
Reading this thread, I feel like this company has paid some actors and is just A/B testing a logo change.
This one is rough, but have y’all heard of Stouffer’s stuffing? D:
It’s on the shelf in that pic
I definitely remember Stove Top Stuffing.
The show that pic is from was making a joke about the Mandela Effect. S1 Episode 3 was all about it, so this showing up in S3 Episode 2 was just an Easter egg/callback to when they went around sticking the Stouffer’s logo over the Kraft branded stuffing boxes in stores. https://www.hbo.com/how-to-with-john-wilson/season-1/3-how-to-improve-your-memory
I wish he would make more. My absolute favorite moment in that show:
Star Child: How do hard drives work? It’s crystals, right?
Computer Guy: Uh, well, no, it’s… 😑 Yes, it’s crystals.
Star Child: I thought so.
Regardless of reality, the one with the cornucopia looks better
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.
I HATE Tik Tok, but no. Snopes is 100% falling for corporate propaganda to cover up that FotL poisoned an entire town.
https://www.tiktok.com/@dimelifting/video/7311071477732838687
Did you not watch her later TikTok where she admitted that FoL did not even own that factory at the time she was claiming? TikTok can be a very useful resource, but like everything we need to use critical thinking.
If a TikTok video is the only evidence you have, then you have no evidence. Please stop spamming this bullshit.
I’m usually one to trust snopes but they’re full of shit
FotL has launched a successful propaganda campaign to cover up that they poisoned an entire town.
https://www.tiktok.com/@dimelifting/video/7311071477732838687
Sorry for the Tik Tok link.
Yeah, no. The evidence presented there is less than paper thin. Only two blurry shitty pictures of unknown origin exist that claim to show the cornucopia in the logo. Out of all the millions of clothes this company has sold. It’s just not plausible. The more likely explanation is good Photoshop, or counterfeit clothing with an incorrect logo.
This video is actually covered in the snopes article too.
That TikTok doesn’t mention anything about poison?
This is super made up.
No. That is a conspiracy theory being spread on TikTok. They did not own the factory that poisoned the town. They bought it afterwards. Even the woman who made that TikTok later issued a correction.
Snopes is not immune to corporate collusion.
It’s just called corporate gaslighting at that point
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.
That’s the weird thing.
In my country cornucopias have no cultural significance or association with piles of produce. Still, every time I have talked Mandela effects with friends and acquaintances and asked them to describe the logo for me (stores in my country would sometimes have imported t-shirts from Fruit of the Loom) they describe it as “a big pile of different fruit with that basket-thing behind”, not even knowing a word for the object. When I tell them there is nothing behind the fruit pile, they are in total disbelief. Like many other commenters in this post, I remember asking my dad, after buying a pack of t-shirts, what that thing behind the fruit was, as I had never seen anything like that before in my life. I must check up with him someday if he still has any surviving t-shirts left, though I doubt it, since they were cheaply made and broke often. It’s also the weirdest feeling, that the logo with the cornucopia in this post is identical to my memory of the logo, down to the smallest detail, and is exactly how all I have talked to have remembered it as well.
It’s the same thing about the Monopoly mascot and his monocle. People try to explain it by saying that people conflate it with some Peanuts brand mascot, but in my country we have never had that brand in our stores nor any other brands with a mascot like that. Still, I am not as astounded that people in my country and myself remember him with a monocle, as there have been plenty of characters in movies, series and cartoons, foreign as well as domestic, that, when sporting a tailcoat and tophat, would always wear a monocle to match. The whole set is so broadly associated with aristocratism, that you would fill in the gap, so to say. Nobody in my country would say the same for a pile of fruit, unless it was a bowl we were talking about.
Why do people always do the weird thing of trying to be mysterious and not just say what country they’re talking about? Like no one is going to track you down by knowing you’re Latvian but they might say ‘I’m also from there and can explain where you’re mistaken…’
Exactly. And I’m pretty sure as a kid I just imagined that’s what a loom was.
I think also there’s some conflating happening with Thanksgiving images. Very often the fall veggies are arranged very similarly, and Thanksgiving images often do have a cornucopia. I even had a Thanksgiving sticker from a random event that basically looked exactly like I remembered Fruit of the Loom except it was corn and pumpkins and stuff.
Photoshop would make it real easy to fake a pic like this. No one knows where this image comes from, where or when it was taken, nothing. It’s unverifiable.
Sounds like something a shill for big cornicopia would say.
that, plus it just looks better with a cornucopia. Like if apple never had the bite on the apple and someone started a rumor that it actually did, that would be easy to believe because the bite just obviously looks more like a logo.
Just having a bunch of fruit doesn’t give any connotations to textile, but the cornucopia adds something that bridges the gap so the logo isn’t so out of place.
But who drew the cornucopia???
I can’t believe someone sketched that in to explain a Mandela event
Wait your telling me it didn’t have the basket like thing? Could it be more likely they changed the logo?
Someone who read 1984 is it not still possible that the logo we all thought we saw was real and they changed yesterday to make us all feel that are memories are wrong? I don’t know why they do that unless it was to see that they could.
Because I swear I saw the another way on packaging when I was a boy.
Fruit of the loom, It’s possible, but with the amount of clothing produced with the logo it should be easy to find in thrift stores and the back of peoples closets. At least a few years ago when the idea caught on.
Thinking logically, are there agents going around stealing the items from homes and thrift shops to cover this up? It would have to be an ongoing process.
Stove Top stuffing is a bit trickier to debunk since the product was thrown away after consumption, its a lot less likely there is a mountain of old product that could resurface.
There’s photos of shirts with the cornucopia logo.
Can you link some? I’ve seen some bad photo shops but nothing halfway convincing.
Wait what’s the stovetop one about?
Some people claim it used to be “Stouffer’s Stove Top” brand stuffing, but the company reports they’ve never made any stuffing or product called Stove Top.
Kraft currently makes Kraft Stove Top stuffing, and people reportedly are misremembering.
Wtf now that you mention it I do remember that. Maybe we all have shifted into a different reality? So that was never a thing?
I’m gonna go with Occam’s razor here.
I don’t get the Mandela effect. I never even heard of the guy until he was released from prison. Still, didn’t reoffend so I guess he learned his lesson.
Pretty sure Fruit of the Loom didn’t have that font either. I think that’s a new one.
I did think it was Berenstein bears, but in fairness I did only have one book and it was a worn out scratch and sniff book where all the pages smelt vaguely of pepper. Also a six year old’s memory might not be the most reliable thing in the world.
SAME. I know without a doubt the brown cornucopia was part of the fruit logo.
SAME. I know without a doubt the brown cornucopia was part of the fruit logo.
There is zero doubt in my mind. It’s literally how I learned what a cornucopia is.
I was in 6th grade and our school was going to have a Christmas play, which involved some kids dressing as reindeer. The teacher showed us an example of the kind of sweatpants we’d need to wear, and they were Fruit of the Loom, still in the package. I asked the teacher what the brown fruit was, and she told me to look it up and that it was a cornucopia, except she said it like “Cornycopia,” which I couldn’t find in the dictionary until she told me it was spelled with a ‘u’ and not a ‘y’.
I didn’t misremember that, I didn’t confuse it with Thanksgiving, etc. The only reason I know what a cornucopia is is because of that and how she mispronounced it.
YUP. You stand firm by that and I stand by you. We know what we saw!
I had a powerful memory as a child too and I’ll never forget it was 1979/1980 I closely studied that logo on our clothing tags for some reason, because that’s what little bright intelligent children do, we soak up the world around us like an information-hungry sponge. It’s a powerful memory burned into my head.
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)_/¯
Maybe it’s a fake. I once saw a Diesel t-shirt where the punk wore a thin headband.
Probably just a trick of the mind, but maybe you got some knock off stuff? IDK who would make fake FOTL but they seem to make all sorts of counterfeit products.
Perhaps the more reasonable explanation is that you’re misremembering.
I remember it because that is how I learned what a Cornucopia was. Asking my mother about it, after seeing it on white underwear, at a Zellers.
That’s another Mandela effect.
Fruit of the Loom never produced underwear.
All of us misremembering the same thing is weird though
You read the post and it primed your brain to remember a certain way. Our brains are a shitty meatball just trying to get by. They get tricked in the same ways. Optical illusions are still illusions even though most people experience them in the same way.
Nah
If you asked me yesterday to draw this logo would have put the cornucopia. The two options aren’t labeled you pick which one is correct and then come to find out you’re wrong.
You’re really not understanding how good the brain is at tricking us, of course it feels like you’d have drawn it but your brain didn’t think about it yesterday what you’re doing is simulating what your best assumption is for how things would have happened using the current set of information.
They’ve done all sorts of studies on this and honestly it’s terrorizing just thinking about it.
Totally agree! I love these kinds of things. I honestly prefer to believe it’s multiverse collapse, but, you know. Generally I know that is unlikely.
If true then what would we call this mass misremembering? Some effect according to… Mandela maybe?
Yeah that makes sense because so many people remember him dying in prison in the 90’s even though he actually died in 2013
Brains work (and fail) the same way
Are you suggesting that I’m the one at fault? How preposterous! /s
😊
More likely that your brain is just remember seeing cornucopias.
Who’s downvoting this? Our brains are crap. You were primed to remember the cornucopia so you did. That’s it. Y’all really think there’s a vast conspiracy to convince you that Bernstein was spelled differently and some random logo was different? Consider that our stupid heads are literally full of stupid meat. We’re barely smarter than a shit throwing baboon.
I think someone is going through my history and downloading all my comments by 1, for one thing.
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Lol fan made underwear logo, I love it.
I was in the “remember” group for the Berenstain Bears, but in this case I only remember ever seeing the logo on the right (the real one).
There was absolutely a cornucopia
Sorry, but there really never was. Every time people claim this with absolute complete confidence. Then they dig an old fruit of the loom shirt out of the bottom drawer, and the cornucopia just isn’t there. Just a bunch of fruit. And it blows their mind.
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!
It’s neither of those. You’re putting “bear” into it. Lmao. It’s Berenstain.
Oh God this is even worse. We’ve split again!
Can’t wait for the multiverse to finally unravel
You’re wrong too. It’s the Bearenstain Bares, because it was a book about nudists.
Wait… Was I raised in a cult?
The off-spelling was from overseas published books, so they couldn’t be sold in America.
I’m not in America and my books growing up were a mix of hand me downs, library books, and stuff from the church. Maybe I got the mispelled versions.
Be at peace
But doesn’t the front on both says Berenstain in cursive or am I reading it wrong?
Yes, the one in font is likely a typo. It’s so easy to get the name confused that even the transcriber got confused.
Looks like it
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.
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)
its* color palette improves
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It’s not wrong though.
Underwear brand and that would be hilarious.
Clothing brand. Not just underwear.
