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I not only remember the cornucopia one, but I thought this was the reason I learned the word cornucopia when I was a kid. Most Mandela effect stuff is kind of silly to me, but this one just freaks me out.
You probably learned cornucopia from thanksgiving, that's how I learned it. Also, google cornucopia and basically every image looks like the fruit of the loom logo but with the horn behind it. It's pretty obvious that people are so used to seeing the cornucopia imagery that when it's combined with the fruit of the loom logo their brains go "yeah that looks right" and just assume that it must've been that at some point.
Mandela effects are fun and I understand the appeal but anyone who takes them seriously is straight up just not using their critical thinking skills.
Cornucopias were not a commonly seen thing in my region or most regions of the world. We have fruit bowls instead. In the 00s a lot of people had fake fruit in a big bowl just for decoration since it was such a trend. I saw fruit bowls a lot more than I ever saw cornucopias. But nobody talks about the missing bowl. I didn't even know what cornucopias were called for a long time. Funny thing is I thought they were called looms because when I was learning to read I got fixated on the text in logos and spent a long time staring at that one. I remember looking at my underwear tag while shitting and thinking "wtf is a loom? It must be that cone thing the fruit is coming out of." That's what makes it weird, the consistency of it plus the amount of people who have actual memories associated with the cornucopia.
I just checked some old clothes I've got from the 90s. No cornucopia. Wonder if it was on the packaging or ads or something
Mandela effect stuff used to be just weird and silly, but in the last 5 years or so the internet has become centralized enough that it is actually possible to scrub all records of something from history, especially if it's something innocuous. That makes it very difficult to trust the corporations when they say "no, our logo never looked like x" when they might be actively lying about it.
Maybe their machine learning determined that in 3-5 years cornucopias would be deemed a symbol of oppression so they removed it to get out ahead. Or maybe some rich assholes son who was gifted a job as head of marketing just inexplicably hates cornucopias and wanted to scour them from the company. Or maybe through sheer incompetence, no one properly documented the logo change and everyone who was in the company has since moved on, so now everyone is like "hey according to our official records it was never like that" and they stick to that out of sheer corporate stubbornness.
Point is, for whatever reason, companies now have the capability of gaslighting people about this. You can still look up their old patent history, but that's about it unless you randomly find old pictures that happen to contain it.
I still think most of the time it's just common misremembered things from childhood.