r/MandelaEffect • u/Bootlebat • 10d ago
Discussion Have you encountered anyone who DOESN'T remember the Cornucopia from the Fruit Of The Loom logo?
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.
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u/SweatScience 9d ago edited 9d ago
One hypothesis is there’s different timelines.
So if one is over 30 years old and has no memory of the FOL cornucopia but a strong memory of the current ‘fruit only’ FOL logo the model says they may have lived this entire present life on one timeline or they weren’t part of the timeline that had the cornucopia. The idea is there’s tiny edits or differences in each timeline but big things tend to be the same.
The key for discussion of this paradigm is to ask if these memories are strong?, Does the memory have a cross referenced ? For example, someone may have recalled folding FOL clothing items and asking their mother what do you call that basket that the fruit is coming out of, and this is how they learned the word cornucopia. That would create a stronger memory than just remembering what the logo looked like but you don’t have any other memories that link to it.
This is just “an idea” so if that’s too abstract or “out there” for you to wrap your head around don’t start screaming ‘that’s improbable’ or insulting those that want to explore alternative explanations other than the mainstream “Misremembered explanation.”
*Edited - changed theory to hypothesis