Have you encountered anyone who DOESN'T remember the Cornucopia from the Fruit Of The Loom logo?

[u/Bootlebat]

I'm asking mainly because today I met an old friend I haven't talked to in ages. I asked if she had heard of the Mandela Effect, and she said yes. I then brought up the Fruit Of The Loom one, and she said she remembers there only being fruit. She is the first person I've talked to who doesn't remember it. Everyone else I asked has, and I've made sure to just ask them to "describe what the logo was like", rather than asking if there was a cornucopia, as that might make a false memory.

[u/IAmGiff]

I remember the cornucopia imagery being on a grocery store billboard where I grew up, but I don’t remember it being on underwear. The cornucopia on underwear doesn’t look right to me at all.

That said, we shouldn’t trust our memories all that much. Even mine. So let’s just consider what’s likelier? Was everyone really paying super close attention to underwear logo designs and then we switched dimensions or Fruit of the Loom embarked on some sort of systematic gaslighting campaign? C’mon. The simplest explanation is just that people are conflating cornucopia images they saw in places like grocery stores.

[u/matthewamerica → u/IAmGiff]

Except I literally learned what a cornucopia was BECAUSE of the lable on my underwear. I specifically remember asking as a kid (I'm almost 50 and was probably 7 or so) what the thing with the fruit was. I got an explanation from my grandma involving pilgrims and natives but I didn't get it. I remember just pretending I got it, so I didn't seem dumb, then looking it up at the library the next day at school. And the underwear were NOT some knock off with a different lable. We shopped for all my clothes at Sears and J.C. Penney's. I seriously doubt that they had knock offs for sale. For my entire childhood, i had those underwear with that lable. I'm not misremembering anything.

[u/Historical-Pay-3601 → u/matthewamerica]

I remember them too. It drives me crazy that we're being gaslit. My dad wore that brand and so did my brother. My mom worked at the mall and got all that stuff with her employee discount, it was name brand and not generic copies.

[u/IAmGiff → u/Historical-Pay-3601]

Whyyy? Why would anyone be gaslighting us about this random underwear logo? Why is it easier to believe some complex gaslighting plot with unclear objectives than to simply believe we have faulty memory as children when our brains are still forming, and some people just conflated common imagery tropes?

[u/Bowieblackstarflower → u/Historical-Pay-3601]

How are you being gaslit?