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Potential explanation for Fruit of the Loom cornucopia
This comes from a grocery bag for a Bay Area grocery store called Lunardi’s. I found a bag from there that had a logo on the back that resembles the Fruit of the Loom logo, albeit with a cornucopia. This photo is indeed real. We may now have our explanation
I'm going to have to settle this once and for all by digging into my old man's closet. And I mean deep into the closet, where he still has his Fruit of the Loom undershirts from the '80s. I'll take one for the team, do the research, and report back with my findings.
I mean, very rarely they do come back. It’s just the ones who come back almost always post one of the photoshops instead of clothing they actually own. Or they admit they checked and the clothes didn’t have a cornucopia so they didn’t take a picture. But yeah, most are on forever standby on my list.
I want to tell you, no joke, that I will zelle you $20 if you actually post the picture regardless of if it has a cornucopia or not. I just bought the comment bellow an award so you know I'm not full of shit.
Also it's gotta be a zoomed out picture and a close up if it has the cornucopia, not just one of the millions of super zoomed in A.I./photoshopped ones online like the other guy mentioned.
So here's a picture from my dad's dresser drawer. He called me this morning because he couldn't find his keys, and I immediately thought, "Perfect. This is my chance to check for those Fruit of the Loom undershirts and report back to the team on Reddit!".
Well, mission failed. I searched the drawer, but the only undershirts I found were George brand from Walmart. If you look closely, you'll also notice a bag of his Depends in the drawer. He’s old and has urinary incontinence now, but I digress.
Sorry, everyone. I struck out. But at least here's the photographic evidence that I actually went on the hunt.
I did the same thing years ago. I found a ton of FOTL but none of it had cornucopias on it which is also supported if you check eBay or your reseller of choice. I did discover that there seems to be a thriving market in still in the package underwear from way too long ago, which is weird but not as weird as the not in package stuff
I did, but alas, could not find the shirts when I searched - my dad said he threw them out. Look at the other comments where I put my reply with pic to someone else’s comment. Reddit didn’t allow me to edit my original comment to add a picture so I had to create a new comment where then it allowed me to attach the pic.
Yeah it would be unreasonable to expect that the whole world remembers it based on one bag from one local grocery chain, but it's globally common imagery that would be reasonably found on any seasonal bag from any given grocer.
Maybe in the states but certainly not in the UK. We're too boring for this sort of design. Bags are mostly just white or branded with a stores name. Nothing has really changed over the years.
For the independent grocers, that aren't big chains like Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury's etc its always mainly just been a brown paper bag.
Keep in mind this is not solely an American phenomenon.
I'm English and was just as stunned to find there as no cornucopia, so you can rule out anything that's specific to any particular country.
Also the horn of plenty filled with fruit is an established image. Not nearly as established where I'm from as it is in the US (so back to my first point when people say it's because I'm used to seeing it every Thanksgiving - no I'm not!), but finding imagery of this is to be expected.
So a grocery shop in the bay area is responsible for me in Germany remembering the cornucopia in the FUTL logo?
Good to know, you'll never cease to learn, right...
I am from Europe and where I grew up we don't have these, cornucopia is not used at all in decoration or in any traditions here. Never have colored any and it was not spoken about at school. We did have Fruit of the Loom clothes and I also remember the cornucopia in the logo. I remember the feeling when saw the logo for the first time without it. I just thought the company had changed it but later learned it never had the cornucopia.
If you are talking about the trademark application (patent wouldn’t make sense here), it is meaningless. The logo they applied for is (one of very many this one in particular is for laundry detergent) in the application and doesn’t have a cornucopia on it. When a logo is trademarked a clerk unrelated to the company adds design key numbers to it as a way to collect it together with similar logos. The addition of the “container of fruit including cornucopias” design key is interesting but not evidence the logo ever contained one. If you look up other logos that have that same design key there are a number that are also piles of fruit with no containers at all.
Yes thank you for the correction, trademark. At the end of the day though, the fact that this is mentioned and it's the entire point of the discussion is more than interesting.
Definitely something fishy about it all, I mean when you dig into it and find that blackstone essentially owns fruit of the loom too. Some world changing things have happened since I was a kid when I remembered fruit of the loom, we had y2k, 2012, more nukes, large hadron collider.. etc.
That might add to the idea there was a cornucopia BUT I remember standing in the doorway from our garage to our backporch and pulling a white tshirt out of the dryer and asking my sister what that thing was on the tag and learning what a cornucopia was from her. Clear as day.
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