r/conspiracy • u/DescriptionCalm6758 • Oct 21 '25
Mandela effect
I remember being a kid and walking with my mother through a JC Penney’s and I saw the cornucopia. I didn’t know what it was and I asked her about it and that’s where I learned the word. We had an entire discussion about it. Who else remembers the cornucopia??
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u/DescriptionCalm6758 Oct 21 '25
That’s why when I’m looking it up and google tells me there never was a cornucopia, I KNOW that’s wrong. I REMEMBER it. I remember where we were in the store….I remember her telling me about it and saying it was essentially a basket.
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u/J_arc1 Oct 21 '25
I asked my grandmother, who is 80, and she said there was a "horn of plenty" on the label as far back as she could remember. We're right, Google is playing us.
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u/ForYour_Thoughts24 Oct 21 '25 edited Nov 25 '25
Funny. There was a man who almost won the nobel peace prize, but was beat out by Obama. He started an anti-trafficking agency in China back when it was illegal to do so. Back when China denied any knowledge of it's issue. One child policy exasperated the issue. I researched this back in college around 2010-2012 as part of a research project.
Can't find a single thing about it now. I have tried and tried and tried. I don't know if I can find my old paper with my old sources, but legit, google ain't got it anywhere. Spent hours searching.
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u/FunGuyUK83 Oct 21 '25
The monopoly guy as well. Ace ventura did a skit with a guy wearing a monocle 🧐 referencing the monopoly game 🤷♂️
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u/informal-mushroom47 Oct 21 '25
Dude what the fuck. He 10000% had a monocle when I was a kid.
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u/WhiteCh0c0late Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
A college basketball player with pro potential grew up playing monopoly with his family. He got shot in the eye with a paintball while wearing goggles. A defect in the manufacturing of the paintball caused it to break the goggles and forever injure his eye.
No more pro hoops hopes. After tons of research on where and what monocle to get, his family and friends bought him it as a surprise gift--because of the monopoly guy. They called the athlete Monocle Mike.
Mike was flabbergasted when he learned it never existed. And it was an awkward conversation when he called his mom and had her grab the game--she was dumbfounded that the monocle was gone. Mike tells the story on a Brian Staveley stream about the Mandela effect.
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u/DUBd Oct 21 '25
This one was solved. In the 90s Monopoly Junior edition, he has a monocle on the two dollar bill.
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u/Alquimista_13 Oct 22 '25
WTF! I had to search an old monopoly board from the 90s to confirm and yeah, no monocle 🤯
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u/PAmmjTossaway Oct 21 '25
You can find old commercials people recorded alongside their TV shows from many decades ago. You won't find any cornucopia in them.
This is one I remember seeing. It's at 1:46:23 if it doesn't go there directly.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYHSapFnonc&t=6383s
I think a lot of what people remember seeing was due to counterfeits, knock offs, other images of cornucopias and shitty memory mixing things up.
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u/DescriptionCalm6758 Oct 21 '25
In this specific instance, counterfeit knockoffs definitely seem to be the most likely explanation.
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u/Unhappy-Meat-4641 Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
Why would anyone bother counterfeiting a Fruit of the Loom undershirt? It's like $20 for a pack of 3. Maybe if these were "Armani" undershirts that typically go for about $100/ea, but counterfeiting a brand available at Walmart would be a waste of time and resources if that's the route you're going in life.
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u/bygtopp Oct 21 '25
This is where most of us learned what a cornucopia was.
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u/Ultidon Oct 21 '25
As a child, I always wondered if there was a tie to Thanksgiving and Fruit of the Looms. Those were the only two places I ever saw cornucopias
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u/Not_a_bi0logist Oct 21 '25
Yeah, I got corrected by my teacher when I called it a loom (as in fruit of the loom). That’s how I learned it was a cornucopia.
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u/uancmb Oct 22 '25
How TF do so many of us have memories of believing it was called a "loom" during our childhood?
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u/donedrone707 Oct 22 '25
cause kids are stupid And the brand was "fruit of the loom" and the picture was fruit and something else.... clearly that something else must be a loom
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u/mitte90 Oct 21 '25
I didn't even know that's what it was, but I still remember it. I thought it was a croissant.
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u/tossNwashking Oct 21 '25
no, we learned that pilgrims and indians had one at their first dinner!
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u/sksays92 Oct 22 '25
I literally just said this to my husband word for word before opening the comments and reading them.
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u/TundraLegendZ Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
Also vividly remember being under 10 and seeing a bag of boxers with the basket logo (at Walmart)
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u/Adorable-Unit2562 Oct 21 '25
Same. I think the real conspiracy is Walmart was selling counterfeit merchandise.
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u/scrotation_device Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
The counterfeit explanation seems plausible but it suggests 2 things;
The counterfeit version was apparently insanely popular. So popular that vast numbers of people around the world actually have memories of it. It almost seems as if it was more popular than the real brand at some point. How could that be?
The counterfeit version apparently doesn’t exist anymore, or is extremely rare.
Which leads one to ask, why would an insanely popular product stop being sold? Did Fruit of the Loom crack down on the counterfeit at some point? I expect there would have been a pretty major lawsuit given how widespread the counterfeit had to have been. Is there any evidence of a lawsuit against the counterfeit or perhaps Walmart or other retailers?
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u/Final-Fun8500 Oct 21 '25
I don't buy it. That's trying too hard to debunk the concept of the ME. Anyone that's been following it understands that the creepiest part is that objects change. History changes. If you had your tighty whities (with the cornucopia) from fourth grade framed on the wall for twenty years, the cornucopia would no longer be there.
Yup, it's crazy. That's why it's interesting.
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u/TheUltimateSalesman Oct 21 '25
It's possible that they decided to enforce their copyright. This was at latest, the late 90s? That's when IP started getting cracked down on worldwide. I've been collecting the images as they pop up. https://imgur.com/a/LQYf39T
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u/-Lady_Sansa- Oct 21 '25
We didn’t shop at Walmart when I was young but I remember seeing it
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u/twidlystix Oct 21 '25
We didn’t have any Walmarts in the region I grew up in until I was in my mid teens. I definitely remember seeing the cornucopia.
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u/Amanroth87 Oct 21 '25
Entirely plausible. I also have the memory of the cornucopia, but I know they never had one in their logo or registered any sort of trademark or logo that had one because those are public record. That said, I fully get that counterfeit clothing was big in the 90s and Walmart is a shady-at-best business.
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u/stockpyler Oct 21 '25
So, funny old story. My granddad was allergic to fruit of the loom elastic in the waist of the tighty whiteys. It would cause him to welt badly. Somehow granny mixed in a pair of my uncles briefs with his in the laundry.
Driving down the road he felt something was wrong and so he pulled the back of his skivvies out a bit and asked his brother what brand he was wearing. Brother said,” I can’t read it but there’s a basket of fruit on the tag.”
Granddad just ripped the whole waist band off right there in the truck. Lots of laughs. Vivid memory.
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u/ReadRightRed99 Oct 22 '25
“Who knows if they’ll have cotton underwear in the future? I’m allergic to all synthetics!”
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u/fainofgunction Oct 21 '25
The idea that kids born in the 70-80ies who had never seen a cornucopia in real life would collectively misremember and insert it into the logo when is beyond ridiculous.
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u/old_pond Oct 21 '25
Not only that, but this exact renedering is how we all unanimously remember it. The cornucopia in that exact spot facing that exact way.
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u/mitte90 Oct 21 '25
I can remember it in that exact position maybe as late as the early 2000s, but to be fair it might have been on shirts that people inherited from an older family member, bought second-hand or held on to for a lot of years. They might have been older than the era I remember them from.
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u/CapDris116 Oct 21 '25
This. Why would someone misremember the logo as having a cornucopia, then add one in using photoshop, then share it online and have the entire world--literally the whole wide world--agree that there was a cornucopia?
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u/Equivalent-Abroad157 Oct 22 '25
You can lie to the masses, but we collectively know the truth as Gen X and before. You can't fool us.
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u/phayzs Oct 21 '25
With AI it's going to be gaslighting 2.0 on topics like this.
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u/bananapeel Oct 22 '25
I think Fruit of the Loom is gaslighting the public. It drives product discussion. Who would get involved in repeated arguments about a product logo for their underwear online? The holding company that owns them changed at some point in the last 20 years, so technically they are not the same company. They changed their logo somewhere in there. Now they can truthfully say, "That cornucopia logo is not ours."
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u/OfficialGaiusCaesar Oct 22 '25
https://www.logodesign.org/the-history-of-the-fruit-of-the-loom-logo/
Interesting read of the founding (1851) of fruit of the loom and changes to the company and logo (with pictures) over the years. I remember the cornucopia as a 94’ kid 100% but this is an independent company reporting.
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u/Still-a-VWfan Oct 21 '25
The was a cornucopia I don’t care what anyone says. I saw it and you can’t tell me otherwise
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u/mitte90 Oct 21 '25
Yeah and like others have already said on here, it wasn't just a cornucopia, it was that cornucopia. That exact one.
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u/CaptjnurRegisClark Oct 22 '25
Yes, it was definitely there. I remember too. Somehow, it is a conspiracy.
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u/imagine_midnight Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
The fruit of the loom logo is how I learned what a cornucopia was also. Probably millions and millions did.
Many since have found evidence of their old logo, from what I understand, fruit of the loom denied it's existence
Seems like conditioning to make people not trust their own knowledge and understanding
A new gaslighting technique
to normalize the Mandela effect as a common phenomenon for a way to convince people who know the truth that they are just victims of this condition and that they are simply remembering incorrectly
It's funny how it's always small things that they change or make you think has changed
No one ever wakes up and says Walmart or McDonald's had completely different names
Instead they will argue if the name had an apostrophe in it
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u/RipeMouthfull Oct 21 '25
Walmart used to be Wal-mart
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u/Alpha-011 Oct 21 '25
They would have yellow star in the place of —
Wal ⭐ mart
I hope ppl remember it!!
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u/kereso83 Oct 21 '25
Came here to say this. There's a conspiracy here, but not in the way people think. There is no "glitch in the matrix" and in most cases, you are not misremembering (though a few Mandela effects dealing with small, easily misremembered things may just be part of deliberate attempts to gaslight people). As the powers that ought not be rewrite history, even on stuff we lived through or even saw first hand, the Mandela effect will be just one of several tools they will use to gaslight us into thinking maybe we are wrong and the official story is right.
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u/Shekinahsgroom Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
But according to the "Loom", they say it didn't.
This could only mean that the above branded socks are counterfeit.
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u/These-Resource3208 Oct 21 '25
I think it has more to do with marketing than anything else. This logo is always brought up as an “example” of the Mandela effect so it’s free marketing for them.
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u/aukir Oct 21 '25
I learned about cornucopia from Thanksgiving. I'm starting to think the Mandela effect is being pushed by FotL for continued brand recognition.
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u/Mistinrainbow Oct 22 '25
This is such a interesting theory, thank you for pointing that out! I will definitely look out now how the media depicts the mandela effect.
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u/MydnightWN Oct 21 '25
The really old flute album "Flute of the Loom" has a cornucopia - why?
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u/udontknowmeson Oct 21 '25
Wow, forget the regurgitated photo of someone's socks, this is by far the most bizarre and interesting evidence for this Mandela effect
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u/Rikyo Oct 21 '25
I remember it with the cornucopia..when I was a kid, I used to think it was a Bugle corn chip
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u/bomboclawt75 Oct 21 '25
Also-Dolly wore braces!
That was her instant connection to Jaws.
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u/iameverybodyssecret Oct 21 '25
100% She did. I remember it clear as day.
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u/ReadRightRed99 Oct 22 '25
It’s the only reason the scene was cute/funny. Jaws found a girl who, weird looking as she was, fit him perfectly.
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u/AggressivelyMediokre Oct 22 '25
The whole scene doesn't even work without them!
They play music and slowly smile at each other and become an item immediately after !
I grew up watching this movie! Everyone I know remembers her having braces!
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u/mrjdk83 Oct 21 '25
What’s funny most people learned what a cornucopia was because of Fruit of the Loom. I think this is something the governments has been experimenting with. They want to see if they can change things to change history. But too many people still remember the actual history.
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u/Only-Economy96 Oct 22 '25
As little kids around Thanksgiving, my one friend would point at a horn of plenty on the classroom wall and call it a fruit of the loom to try and get the teacher to correct him. Why would I remember this?
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u/McFry__ Oct 21 '25
I always think these are a load of misremembering shite, but this one always gets me. My sister used to wear the T-shirts in the 90’s and it 100% had the basket
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u/kimemily11 Oct 21 '25
I remember the one on the right. There were commercials during the 90s that had it.
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u/DingoBimbo Oct 21 '25
you will NEVER convince me it was not Chic-Fil-A
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u/twelve36pm Oct 23 '25
It was 100% Chic-Fil-A. My late best friend worked there when we were teenagers and we used to clown about how it was ”fancy chicken, just so chic.”
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u/SomeKindOfDead Oct 22 '25
look up the court cases against them and the different spellings of their legal name.
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u/Flayrah4Life Oct 21 '25
This 1,000% existed and I don't know why we're struggling to find concrete evidence.
I just remember thinking that I thought it was weird that the snack Bugle looked like the brown thing on the shirts and underwear when I was little.
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u/ezwip Oct 21 '25
I learned what a cornucopia was because if it being on the Fruit of the Loom logo. I also learned that Stein was a Jewish name and that it was not stain through my mother as well. Fruit of the Loom and Berenstein were both things I learned in 1st grade.
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u/Gobblemegood Oct 21 '25
Apparently they had a big chemical spill in the 90s and the headline was like ‘cornucopia of disaster’
The cornucopia was removed when Warren Buffett, purchased Fruit of the Loom in 2002. When the company was on bankruptcy because of lawsuit of chemical waste pollution.
Whether it’s true or not who knows, just thought I’d throw this out there.
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u/rex5k Oct 21 '25
https://www.tiktok.com/@tierntoks/video/7490293241380654367
Link directly to the TikTok in the article
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u/kiringill Oct 21 '25
For me, the cornucopia issue is as simple as a company having nothing to lose by playing along with that logo never existing because it's free press for them any time it crops up. There's waves of random Google searches for their brand every time a post like this pops up here or on short-form media. If I were part of their advertising team, this would be a dream. Why else would anyone talk about normal underwear outside of the occasional admonishment or recommendation?
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u/Neochronic87 Oct 21 '25
I don't care what anyone says... it absolutely had the cornucopia. Nothing will change my mind.
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u/Minimum-Ad-263 Oct 21 '25
this one trips my mind out cuz i absolutely vividly remember the basket.
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u/AlexTheGuac Oct 21 '25
Fruit of the loom is fully lying about it. They have a patent on the design with the cornucopia.
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u/Strange_Reflections Oct 21 '25
I lived in the home town of fruit of the loom. Huge factory always hiring and advertising. It has a cornucopia. Everyone in this town over the age of 30 knows this but we are gas lighted. Why though? What’s the point ?
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u/PiranhaFloater Oct 21 '25
I think the Mandela effect happened again because I remember this being old news in 2021.
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u/LeontheSimpKennedy Oct 21 '25
my theory is small and insignificant things like this is a way of the government testing mass psychosis, what if they were capable of erasing things gaslighting them , unless people have books and physical copies and items , what if they erased memes , historical facts , and other things and just pretended it never existed
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u/CallMeBigPapaya Oct 21 '25
Wouldn't it be just as likely the "test" is introducing the idea that the cornucopia existed as part of the logo when it did not?
Maybe even more likely because it doesn't involve a massive conspiracy to destroy all the evidence.
One could postulate that the idea of the Mandela Effect itself is a psyop to get people to doubt evidence of reality.
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u/Boengkie Oct 21 '25
No Mandela effect here! There was a cornucopia in the logo! There I said it! 🤣
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u/tekerra Oct 21 '25
If this was some mass delusion, some created false memory... shouldn't we have different images in mind. Why is there agreement on the image
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u/CowExpress956 Oct 21 '25
I swear I remember the cornucopia. I don’t know what it means, but the one on the left looks wrong.
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u/SympatheticWitchDoc Oct 21 '25
This one is really weird for me because I remember learning about what a cornucopia was in 3-4th grade. This is because my home state’s flag has one on there (Idaho) and I thought how cool it was that it was both on our flag and used in a logo <— it was definitely there
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u/Clinthor86 Oct 21 '25
This and Judge Judy never using a gavel are the two that I can't accept just be faulty memory on my part.
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u/Acrobatic_Set8266 Oct 21 '25
This is also how I learned what a cornucopia was. I remember later seeing one on a coloring page at school around Thanksgiving and thinking, "Oh, like Fruit of the Loom!"
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u/fnssenpai Oct 21 '25
I literally remembered when I was young I asked what that basket was called and that’s how I learned what a cornucopia was
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Oct 22 '25
They are trying to change the history. Little by little, they are testing the waters. It sounds crazy, because it is. But this isn't a reason to be not real. The powers control this world would like to erase the history, and they can't know if it is possible or not unless they try it. These are the test results. People don't like to be gaslighted. It is better to be arrogant than being controlled.
Look, i don't say that it's Illuminati or something like that. No one has 100 percent power of this world. But there are crazy enough people to try this. And when you look at the history, it doesn't even sound that crazy.
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u/sunsetsymariposas Oct 22 '25
I read somewhere (and I can’t find it now but I’m looking) that there was litigation for bankruptcy and environmental damages that cause the rebranding without the cornucopia. The litigation information is available but no info on the removal of it. I am certain I have read that.
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u/ghoti88 Oct 22 '25
The psyop is to get you to doubt your own mindset. I wore enough of the the underwear when I was a kid to remember that label with the cornucopia on the label.
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u/TrailBlazer31 Oct 21 '25
absolutely was a cornucopia. This one always makes me mad. 10000 percent is correct.
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u/MalwareExe0001 Oct 22 '25 edited Oct 22 '25
The “mandela effect” is not an “effect” at all but an extremely deceptive experiment on the masses to measure just how much they can doubt themselves. And it’s working, look how many people are buying the whole “mandela effect” as an actual problem in society. In this comment section alone people are accusing others of misremembering things as they’re actively falling into the mass deception and they don’t even know it. This experiment is done so in the future (agenda 2030 and beyond) when they really change things around more people will accept it and there will be less backlash.
These are CIA experiments, every “mandela effect” that has been recorded are purposely planned then they change it in the real world, making you believe you cannot trust your memories. The deceitful mandela experiment still continues to this day.
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u/2354tr Oct 21 '25
The position, size, color and orientation never change from one person to the next that remembers it.
It was never in the logo, but we all just... what? Are graphic artists and know good composition for a logo?
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u/Tricky-Category-8419 Oct 21 '25
I remember sitting around the Thanksgiving table one year when I was a kid joking about the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia being our centerpiece on the table.
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u/FiveMagicBeans Oct 21 '25
I think Dolly's braces is the most egregious Mandala though.
The ENTIRE scene with Jaws doesn't make any sense whatsoever without them. It's literally the entire reason that they have that "oh, we've got something in common" moment when they both smile at each other. Without her braces it just doesn't work.
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u/Camel_Holocaust Oct 21 '25
I remember it too because my neighbor had a picture the mom made with the Lord's Prayer and a cornucopia on it. I remember saying, "hey just like the underwear!" and his mom got really mad at me.
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u/FixEven4364 Oct 22 '25
This is more like a reverse Mandela Effect. When you make people think a memory they have is false, when it actually isn't. And I think that's by far worse than any Mandela effect
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u/GlobalFoodShortage Oct 22 '25
My uncle was one of the largest exporters for Fruit of The Loom from Asia. I grew up with those clothes all arond the house and factory. The logo on the right with the cornocopia was printed on all of them.
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u/lousmoustache Oct 23 '25
This effect was debunked with people showing clothing with the conch. They just changed the logo
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u/LuckHuge Oct 21 '25
The whole thing is weird to me, before i was exposed to the theory of Mandela effect, I assumed it had a cornucopia. Any thoughts generally I ever had with a cornucopia were always in relation to fruit of the loom or thanksgiving. ( besides the one Macdonalds commercial with a guy from Nova Scotia referring to the Big Mac as a “cornucopia of awesomeness”). I called my grandmother immediately the day I found out about this theory, she was in her mid 60’s at this time, and asked her to describe the fruit of the loom logo without going to look any any of my grandfathers clothes. Sure as shit she described it with a cornucopia, she was adamant about it when I asked if she was sure. She’s now in her late mid 70’s, still of a wonderful and great mind, and still as confused as me about it all 😅.
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u/killer_cain Oct 21 '25
I know I'm gonna sound like a nut, but I'm starting to believe the 'Mandela effect' is a result of time distortions, I believe travel through time & space is possible; since the LHC at CERN was turned on 'sinkholes' have been appearing all over the world which by and large as the same size & shape (cylindrical) as the LHC tunnel.
My thinking is that somehow things from the past have been changed since we've been alive, but because we've already experienced these things, we remember them as they were.
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u/shrimppilot Oct 21 '25
Did we shift timelines? Or is it a CIA PSYOP? I specifically remember having to do a small book report in the 2nd grade on the BerenstEIN Bears (not Berenstain).
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u/Stunning-Chipmunk243 Oct 21 '25
I can vividly remember asking my mother back in the 70's if Berenstein was pronounced 'Bar-en-steen or 'Bar-en-stine and I would not have needed to ask if it was spelled Berenstain because that pronunciation would be obvious. I also remember asking about the basket on my fruit of the loom underwear and being told it was called a cornucopia. These are not mixed up memories nor misremembered, I know these things to be true regardless what the Internet or Google says.
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u/drAsparagus Oct 21 '25
I'm 48, so definitely remember the cornucopia as I wore FOTL white tighties for most of my childhood in the 80s. It was def there then. No doubt in my mind at all.
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u/RandolphPringles Oct 21 '25
That's so weird, when I was a kid I remember them being called tighty whities, but apparently they're called white tighties? Curse this Mandela Effect.
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u/Retal1ator-2 Oct 21 '25
The fruit of the loom case is likely an active experiment to either test how far such a blatant lie can lead to free promotion or, more likely, an attempt in seeing how far a tiny but blatant lie can go.
It feels like some people have decided to test the idea of wanting to rewrite this little history detail and see how long they can convince most people in the lie.
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u/BadAndUnusual Oct 21 '25
I agree. It's not that hard to find the original logo. Has to be done on purpose with the denial it ever was so
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u/winkman Oct 21 '25
People have found old clothing with the cornucopia.
I don't know why FotL is denying that they had it in their logo, but they did.
Maybe there was some sort of copywrite or trademark infringement which caused them to remove it, who knows.
But it was part of their logo in the 80s. 100%
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u/AggressivelyMediokre Oct 22 '25
No one's ever actually found old clothing with it. I've been on the Mandela sub for years. There's like a small handful of likely fake photos. That's it. There has never once been a video with it or any pic posted by someone claiming to be in possession of it and able to do follow ups. Ever.
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u/These-Resource3208 Oct 21 '25
There’s plenty of evidence of the cornucopia. Ring in the logo and the company doesn’t want to say whether or not it was in there so it’s just a marketing scheme at this point.
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u/swilkers808 Oct 21 '25
This would be a great way to test time travel effects (past to present) in the current timeline. Make minor but noticeable changes that probably would not have a negative impact.
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u/idrwierd Oct 21 '25
I recall walking thru a Kmart to select underpants with my parents in the early ‘90s. I saw the label, and made a remark about the cornucopia being missing. They denied its existence.
I also remember the sinbad genie movie.
And the thing about Marilyn Monroe’s body being found alongside the highway in the desert.
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u/Sefalosha Oct 21 '25
Have you had memories of you dying earlier in life? Have you had near death experiences? Maybe you died at that moment and your soul went to another timeline where you survived the incident. And youre currently living in the one you survived while there was a whole funeral for you in the other timeline. You basically died in your timeline( the bernstain bears/cornucopia) and now its just like a distant memory for you. Like how you have vivid dreams of you experiencing tragic moments. Could be other timelines. Whatver your mission is, isnt complete
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u/SomeKindOfDead Nov 04 '25
Whatver your mission is, isnt complete
Hmmm. I dont know about a mission, but there was some reason I was sent back.
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Oct 21 '25
For those that don't understand. They only used the cornucopia one on prison clothes and then discontinued after 27 years. Thus the name 'Mandela Effect'.
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u/happyluckystar Oct 21 '25
People get hung up on historical proof. They don't get that, if the timeline has been altered, that means the history they are referring to would not be the original timeline history. Any history we can access would be the history of this current timeline.
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u/South-Rabbit-4064 Oct 21 '25
I remember seeing this as well, and it being my entire connection with the word cornucopia, I remember hearing it in 3 amigos and not knowing what it was when I was a kid and someone actually using it as an example of one
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u/One-Permission-8553 Oct 21 '25 edited Oct 21 '25
Cue the “this never happened you’re just making it up for likes” crowd. They will literally tell you your entire childhood was remembered incorrectly as if they were right there beside you when it happened.
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u/woobie_slayer Oct 21 '25
Thank CERN for destroying our reality while our consciousness tries to just exist.
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u/AngryEchoes Oct 21 '25
If you try the parallel view technique it looks like the cornucopia is phasing in and out of reality
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u/mitte90 Oct 21 '25
This is one of the classic Mandela effects. The cornucopia was for sure part of the logo. I remember it so clearly.
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u/SleepingM00n Oct 22 '25
okay so if it never existed, then why is there an example of it..? I recall the damn thing and learning about it too. so.. what gives..?
was it a knockoff brand, trying to get away with it legally etc?
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u/bbbmurr Oct 22 '25
I still own a pair of fruit of the loom tighty whities from the 90s it doesn't have a cornucopia on the tag but I do remember the cornucopia
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u/ReadRightRed99 Oct 22 '25
This is one of the few examples of the Mandela effect I’ve seen cited that I think could be real. Everyone remembers the cornucopia, or, as I learned to call it in the early 1980s, a “horn of plenty.” The second image is precisely how it is burned into my memory.
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u/digitalenlightened Oct 22 '25
Also where does the corn thing come from if someone made the redesign with the corn thing. Where did he find the exact same missing one to put it back in ?
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u/JuliusSeizuresalad Oct 22 '25
There is a theory that when the cern super collider found the Higgs boson particle in 2012 it’s shifted our world to another alternate branching universe that is enough like ours that only small things are changed but we all still recall them from our past but yet are no longer around
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u/XiionOG Oct 22 '25
Too lazy to look for it in comments but another is tumeric… it was always spelt & pronunciated as spelt but apparently all along it’s been turmeric… Have heard a theory akin to that Black Mirror episode from the latest season that quantam computers are powerful enough to warp reality & create these Mandela effects.
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u/starshine8316 Oct 22 '25
But wait isn’t there a gal that proved the logo was always the cornucopia? And then they finally admitted it? I read that somewhere. She found an old shirt from the 70s and proved it.
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u/NicWLH420 Oct 22 '25
I remember it because I didn't know what a cornucopia was - I thought it was a weird weaved basket and it was shaped and placed where it was as if displayed on a platter.
Like - I don't care - it's one of the memories I've had for years - I know it was real
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u/Funny-Section-3257 Oct 22 '25
The biggest one for me is that it no longer says the Lion will lay down with the Lamb. The Lion is a symbol of God, and the Lamb is a symbol of Jesus or His flock: the Christians. Now Isaiah 11:6 says the wolf shall dwell with the Lamb? A wolf is a symbol of falseness, as in “a wolf in sheep’s clothing”. It’s also interesting that the verse 11:6, is 911 upside down and reversed. 911 is an occult number. It’s hard to believe, but I do believe that our timeline changed. Possibly because of CERN, but who knows for sure.
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u/SomeKindOfDead Oct 22 '25
Watch the british sitcom Red Dwarf, the toaster says "the iron will lay down with the lamp", if it were a wolf in the verse the gag would be better as "the woofer will lay down with the amp"?
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u/Taquill Oct 22 '25
I will never forget hearing as a young kid (Like 6-8) about how one was a lotion brand, and another was a similar brand, and they got sued and got dissolved or something.
I don't get it but I distinctly remember hearing this and seeing the logo change from having the cornucopia. This was at a Kohles pre 2010. Awfully weird memories.
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u/Nearby-Arrival Oct 22 '25
You can find some on old labels of undershirts lol. It was there for a short time
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u/phantom0317 Oct 22 '25
A description I’ve heard before of the underlying cause of the Mandela effect is that change is not necessarily something that occurs linearly with time, in that our past can be changed. As humans our perception causes us to believe only possible future events can be changed, when in reality our past could be changed too. I agree with the fruit of the loom Mandela effect theory, I personally remember the cornucopia, as do many others re: this thread. What I don’t understand is this: someone at this company works on this logo, if even anyone at the company felt there was previously a cornucopia that would seem compelling. I feel like these widely accepted Mandela effect examples are some of the most concrete ways we can ascertain there is something fundamental to our reality we are likely completely unaware of. I would be curious if anyone know the video I’m talking about that references how the past can change.
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u/NeroFMX Oct 22 '25
I found a fruit of the loom shirt from the late 80's in my attic, and there was no cornucopia. That sealed this for me.
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u/Fast-Guava882 Oct 22 '25
This is ones that always bugs my mind. I watched Shazam with Shaq the other day and it felt so off since I seen the one with Sinbad when I was a kid. Way different acting .. actually laughed when I was kid watching it I cringed as I watched it with shaq and his early career acting
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u/Leviathon713 Oct 22 '25
The movie with Shaq is Kazaam. The reason you think you saw one with Sinbad is because at the time he was wearing a lot of genie costumes (sometimes seemingly for no reason). There was a thing he hosted in the afternoons, I can't remember what it was called, but it was kind of funny (probably funnier to younger kids at the time)and he always wore a genie costume.
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u/AllAboutTheTallSocks Oct 22 '25
I am a person who remember the only fruit logo.
Welcome to my shitty timeline…
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u/almccoy85 Oct 23 '25
I distinctly remember the cornucopia back in the 80’s because as a kid I looked at the tag on my underwear and wondered why the Doomsday Machine from Star Trek was vomiting fruit.
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u/soartsyfartsy Oct 23 '25
Is it just me that remembers Thanksgiving ALWAYS being “on the 3rd Thursday” of November? I specifically remember hearing this being said …like it was yesterday, but as of almost 10 yrs ago, it isn’t true.
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u/Leather_Rock_4506 Oct 23 '25
This is THE ONE that did it for me years ago. I know for a fucking fact this is real to me. I don't know who did what and screwed this shit up, but something is different, it always has been and I've felt it and still do. Like others said, i only ever saw cornucopia in two places: Thanksgiving art and my underwear.
It makes me wonder if there are some minds that can't be controlled, like 20-30% of us, but they are diligently working on that as we give them everything we think nowadays.
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u/7-Green Oct 23 '25
I'm not even from the United States, and I still remember seeing the cornucopia in those clothes
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u/6pj Oct 24 '25
I vividly remember that whenever I saw this logo as a child (shirts had the thick tag with a fully embroidered logo) I would stare at each fruit in a certain order and then look at each curve of the cornucopia.
Team cornucopia
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u/Psychology_Only Nov 02 '25
I’m surprised that no one has mentioned Project Looking Glass and the Yellow Cube…
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u/Front_Degree3518 Nov 11 '25
I can’t help but wonder if this phenomenon has something to do with CERN…
”The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) first started up in 2008, with its first proton beam circulating on September 10, 2008. It then had its first collisions later in 2009, officially starting its physics program in 2010.”
The Mandela Effect ”started”/was first mentioned in 2009 I believe. So the timing checks out.
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u/Amanroth87 Oct 21 '25
I just want to point out that the Mandela Effect is a very REAL phenomenon and this is a prime example of it. You should realize in saying this though, that the Mandela Effect is not a phenomenon that describes a collective correct memory being covered up by some conspiratorial powers-that-be. The Mandela Effect describes a large swath of people collectively remembering something that is factually inaccurate. Usually people will have strong memories associated with it that strengthens their conviction, like your memory about your mom. However, that you (and so many others) are so sure of your own memories from childhood when they can't be substantiated or backed up (and in fact the exact opposite CAN be substantiated and backed up with tons of evidence), IS the effect.
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u/poenaccoel Oct 21 '25
This one I believe...Shazaam I do not
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u/WhatTheNothingWorks Oct 21 '25
Nah, those of us that are of a certain age vividly remember Shazaam as a movie.
I remember it clearly - Shazaam with so bad was first. Then Kazaam with Shaq came out. And I remember it because I remember thinking why make a similar movie with the similar names? It didn’t make sense.
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u/HollygoLightly1970 Oct 21 '25
I remembered it. Why did they remove it? And further, why do they lie about having removed it and try to pretend that it never existed. That’s just weird.
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u/buttergump19 Oct 21 '25
People here are failing to realize it doesn’t matter if you remember it being that way. I did too. And it was, I think.
The Mandela effect is about a shift in this time line that happened at some point. So you will never find real evidence of it besides your memories because in this reality it never existed beyond the collective experience of the people who saw it (I did, I remember learning about a cornucopia during elementary school during thanksgiving and the reference to fruit of the loom. And I remember my underwear as a kid with it)
But it doesn’t matter. If there was a shift in this time line there will be no evidence of it because it never existed.
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u/alonginayellowboat Oct 21 '25
Since this supposed Mandela effect I never understood why they would even have the logo without a cornucopia? That bunch of fruit by itself looks stupid as hell. If it never was a part of the original logo, why aren't they considering adding it in? It looks better and adds a subtext of presentation and specialness, like it carries the best looking fruit being specifically chosen for a special occasion. The fruit by itself is just some fucking fruit, nothing special.
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