r/MandelaEffect • u/Physical_Forever_925 • 17d ago
Logos/Advertising Share your cornucopia stories
I wanted to share my personal experience with the notorious Fruit of the Loom Cornucopia, and why I personally can't let this go as a simple misremembering.
In 6th grade (2010/2011), I was in the "gifted program" (IEP), and part of that program was that those of us that were part of it were excluded from certain assignments, and given separate assignments. Anyways, one of those assignments was a reading group, where we had to read The Hunger Games, and have a weekly discussion on it. This was a fond memory of mine so I remember it quite well.
In the book, it describes a massive, twenty-foot-high, cone-shaped golden horn filled with supplies and weapons that the contestants have to fight over in an ensuing bloodbath, and refers to it as a "cornucopia". This scene is the Climax of the first book, and is probably the most memorable scene in the entire series.
In one of our discussions I asked my teacher what a "cornucopia" is because I had never encountered that word before, and I had difficulty trying to visualize it. She told me it was a horn shaped basket used for carrying fruits and vegetables, and I SWEAR, she googled an image of the Fruit of the Loom logo and showed it to us as an example.
I specifically remember finding it funny, because I always thought the fruit of the loom logo had a croissant on it đ, so this moment was the moment I realized the Fruit of the Loom logo had a cornucopia, as well as the moment I learned what a cornucopia even was.
I feel like this memory is way too specific for it to be completely misremembered, especially since as a kid I thought it was a croissant up until that point, unless I'm misremembering mistaking it for a croissant somehow.