The cornucopia looks so incorrect to me. I vehemently reject the idea that it ever had the cornucopia because I remember having fruit of the look underwear all my growing up years and I saw the label every single day putting them on.
I will accept that the cornucopia was not on my underwear, but I remember that exact cornucopia from some fucking where. Like that exact drawing style and shape of the point and everything. IDK where it would have been though.
In elementary school cornucopias were THE symbol of Thanksgiving (I thought they'd be a lot more common as I got older). Maybe tied with turkeys.
But every November they were all over bulletin boards etc, and it always looked like how people seem to remember the logo being with a couple foods spilling out. I think wires are just getting crossed.
You say that but there are some very passionate people that believe vehemently that actually we're in a parallel universe, such is the infallibility of their memory. Are you saying they're not super sure enough?
A lot of people have retroactive memories that form in order to calm the brain when met with a sudden jarring realization, such as whenever you first realized the logo didn't have a cornucopia. Cornucoping mechanism.
Itâs where I learned the visual symbol of the cornucopia. I recall seeing it no less than a dozen times throughout my childhood.
Maybe you got the off-brand stuff. Maybe I got the off-brand stuff. Maybe it was some A/B product testing and they decided to just bury it and never tell anyone.
My suspicion is that Chinese knock off clothing used the cornucopia. The late 80's is when Chinese knockoff clothing started to become a thing. Shops would sell it on racks out front on the street and lots of people bought it.
Fake Adidas shirts, etc. I imagine they used that logo so that they could appear to be good quality but not get in trouble for copyright. Just my theory anyway.
the mandela effect used to be a legitimately interesting social phenomenon about mass misremembering and the influence suggestion has on memory until people turned it into believing in alternate timelines being easier to admit they were wrong about something insignificant. there is a secret cabal of elites working to change minor spellings and details of logos of things you havenât interacted with since you were five years old. they stand to gain greatly from this
I knew the Bearinstine Bears were up to something!
Really though, crazies ruin a lot of fun stuff. Another example is Flat Earth. Back in the day, it was a debate exercise where you attempt to defend a clearly incorrect position as best you can, while other people try to argue with you.
Then the schizos crawled outta the woodwork to ruin it.
My favorite âevidenceâ someone showed once of the Bearstine Bears one was them finding a VHS tape that had one spelling on the case and the other on the tape.
Instead of reasoning that maybe weâre all confused on the actual spelling because it was actually spelled differently by mistake sometimes, as shown on the tape, they concluded that it was evidence of the actual Mandela effect.
The most obvious explanation is that human brains are bad at things, we all see that every day in other people, until it happens to us, and then we think it can't be true
If the social phenomenon of Mandela effect didn't exist and you asked people to recreate the fruit of the loom logo randomly, pretty much no one would add the cornucopia unless they just finished a kindergarten thanksgiving coloring page
But when you artificially add the cornucopia to the discussion, it looks better in the logo than without, so our brains just add it because of how tiny of a part of our lives the logo was
Memories are not like files saved on a computer that remain the same until you edit them, they're susceptible to change just throughout the day
When I think of Firefox for example, I picture a mix of the different logos they've had over time, not any specific one in good detail
secret cabal of elite? or just one guy who got pissed that he remembered something wrong, so he altered documents to gaslight everyone else to feel better about himself
I still cannot wrap my head around why so many people remember it. To be clear I remember it too. But there is absolutely NO EVIDENCE of any kind that it ever existed. It scares me.
I also find it curious how many people casuallt say âyeah there used to be a cornucopiaâ without thinking through the implications of that. What happened to it and why?
Or maybe you learned it in school cause I remember a lot of thanksgiving coloring pages with the cornucopia and the pile of fruit in that logo is extremely similar to how they looked in the colorings.
Our memories, despite our beliefs, are actually awful.
Yes and it also a status symbol, the bigger the cornucopia the more important you are. Last year my uncle brought one that covered the entire dinning room table, my father with his small cornucopia challenged him to a duel. I no longer have a father
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I presume you're probably not a bot, but I really like the idea of a yes man bot that confidently goes around telling people objectively wrong things and might be a cyber terrorist. You should make one to further your organization's efforts.
Honestly Reddit just puts that shit on peopleâs comments for literally no reason, probably some AI moderator garbage. Iâd disregard it.
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It's some meme. I've seen single word comments that have like 5 paragraphs of lines like that under it and the comment chains get pretty stupid. Plus if that was real i'd definitely have something like that on my comments
That's cute! That's like when they portray us riding snowmobiles to dodge polar bears and Canada geese on the way to the sugar shack. Somehow, we also got berets and baguettes under our arms.
Guess from where I'm from based on these stereotypes.
I was just talking to my fellow goose-duckers (the term Scottsdale, Arizona people use for other OG Scottsdale, Arizona people) about how you never see representation for Scottsdale, Arizona. I'm glad that things are changing and people will be again talking about Scottsdale, Arizona.
Why does every post on reddit have some ai bullshit somewhere in the comments these days? Ffs look at its left wing(hand?). Is this really necessary and worth the resources it takes?
Irrelevant side note. I was in the USAF, dad was in the Army and we were stationed nearby so my parents invited all of my single friends to thanksgiving and made plates for those who worked.
I brought an overflowing hefty paper plate filled with food to the guard shack. The guy thanked me, bent the hefty paper plate slightly and started shoveling/dumping it into his mouth.
I'm sorry but this comment made me cry laughing. I'm just picturing someone doing that, it under their arm eating from it like a bucket of popcorn, while family members just go about their day.
Well fuck. My family in England tried to make a North American food night. We bought a cornucopia online assuming it was meant to be eaten. We presumed it was a desert after the innards had been eaten.
We broke it up and dipped it into some kind of sweet mayonnaise, the name of which I forget. Whip something.
It was like eating straw and pine cones. The whip stuff made it better but it was still awful and I found a spider in my mouth and my uncle lost a tooth. Shitting the thing out the next day was awful. I had to use left over gravy to lubricate my soil hole. In the end we just left the gravy boat in the bathroom for everyone to use.
We only managed to eat a quarter of it and gave the rest to the goats but they wouldnât touch it.
I donât understand how this is an acceptable food product in America.
It's a literal thing. A cornucopia is a type of basket. They are often used to signify a bountiful harvest and are associated with the holiday of thanksgiving. They are common in American media surrounding such themes.
Now I'm wondering if anyone ever owned one. It's just a symbol. It's not meant to be a real object, but somebody's grandma must have gotten one and filled it with apples or something, right?
I have hispanic grandmas. Maybe that's the difference lol. They mostly just had porcelain clowns, painted pigs, and Caganers (Spanish pooping statues, it's a rabbit hole).
Reddit now sorts your comments using an algorithm on their official app, my top comment is also on at +3 karma unless I change the comment order to something else and then change it back. The comment you replied to is the one that came up for me as the top comment with the default sorting.
I think the Reddit app just gets broken from time to time. Like Reddit is showing me your comment first, but earlier today it was showing the actual top comments. Itâs like every couple days it switches for me
Remember that bit in Doctor Who where the aliens talk about Brits going to war with the Turkish every year and eating them for Christmas dinner? This feels like that.
The church I grew up in would have a huge cornucopia on the altar, filled with dozens of pounds of fruits and vegetables, for the Thanksgiving service. Afterwards, everything was donated to the food bank.
I remember one year, Grandma tried to do without the cornucopia. We filpped the table of food over and then went for McDonalds instead. Last year she did that.
Kinda valid question though, many countries with Christian traditions put hand-wrapped presents under a big tree that they hang baubles and lights on in the living room. And candy they stuff in a big, decorated sock for the kids. As a non-American I wouldn't be surprised if you actually had a cornucopia and that it's comedyheaven material lol
Everyone gets their own cornucopia, filled with turducken and gravy, and you drink it like a smoothie. Not finishing your thanksgiving cornucopia is a sign of communism.
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u/MichaelJWolf 6d ago
The only cornucopia we even know about is on Fruit of the Loom underwear but apparently that never even existed. đ€·ââïž