Fruit of the Loom Cornucopia Mandela Effect
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About
Fruit of the Loom Cornucopia and Fruit of the Loom Mandela Effect refer to the Mandela Effect involving a large number of people remembering the clothing company Fruit of the Loom having a cornucopia on its logo despite the logo never having the item on it. The existence of the logo at some point is additionally supported by an amount of unreliable circumstantial evidence.
Origin
On August 22nd, 2018, Redditor jinglesbobingles created a thread on the /r/MandelaEffect[1] subreddit in which they outlined a suspected Mandela Effect (a collective false memory/confabulation) regarding the logo of clothing company Fruit of the Loom having a large cornucopia (horn of plenty) next to the fruit in it (artist's recreation and modern logo shown below, left and right).
In the post, jinglebobingles provided several pieces of circumstantial and unreliable evidence supporting the theory that the logo at one point contained a cornucopia, including a description of a canceled trademark, a response from a Fruit of the Loom employee (shown below, left), a cornucopia appearing on a parody logo in the 2006 film The Ant Bully (shown below, center) and the cornucopia being parodied by a cover for the 1973 music album Flute of the Loom by Frank Wess (shown below, right).
Despite multiple claims by people remembering the logo having a cornucopia on it, including instances of people specifically crediting the logo for their knowledge of what a cornucopia is, no solid evidence that such a version of the logo had existed was discovered (logo history since 1893 shown below).
Spread
The initial Reddit post was followed by further investigations performed by other users on the /r/MandelaEffect subreddit. For example, on June 17th, 2019, Redditor JugglingKnives shared his correspondence with the original artist of the cover for Frank Wess' album Flute of the Loom, who responded that they distinctly remembered the cornucopia in the Fruit of the Loom logo (extract shown below).[2]
On October 19th, 2019, Twitter[3] user @NickHintonn posted about the Fruit of the Loom Logo Mandela Effect, with the thread accumulating over 6,300 retweets and 23,800 likes in four years (shown below).
On November 25th, 2020, YouTuber[4] EmpLemon posted a video about the logo, which garnered over 1.3 million views in two years (shown below).
On January 23rd, 2022, TikToker[5] madelinemorera posted a video about the logo that accrued over 818,000 views and 153,000 likes in one year, sparking interest in it on the app (shown below, left). On January 29th, TikToker[6] @lilbroomstick06 posted a meme about the logo that gained over 707,000 views and 141,000 likes in one year (shown below, right).
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7056550659688156463
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7058718520099769646
More viral posts about this instance of the Mandela Effect appeared online throughout 2022 and 2023.
Search Interest
External References
[1] Reddit – Fruit of the loom cornucopia
[2] Reddit – I tracked down the Flute of the Loom Illustrator and he is an ME believer! See what he had to say.
[3] Internet Archive – @NickHintonn
[4] YouTube – The Fruit of the Loom Discrepancy
[5] TikTok – @madelinemorera
[6] TikTok – @lilbroomstick06
