r/mildlyinteresting • • 10h ago

Really old Fruit of the Loom bias tape. No cornucopia.

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u/apowers009 6h ago

Does anyone have a non llm picture of this cornucopia

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u/jedininjashark 6h ago

They are out there. Apparently knockoffs flooded k-marts and that’s where the whole controversy came from.

People remember both because both do exist.

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u/ThickBoxx 2h ago

Got any pictures of these knockoffs?

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u/InitialAd2324 5h ago

Oh my god it was Kmart.

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u/args818 6h ago

Makes sense, my aunts shopped at kmart all the time

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u/qorbexl 5h ago

No link, huh

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u/BlackBabyJeebus 5h ago

Funny how people have been claiming this nonsense for over a decade, but pictures of it weren't "out there" until AI image generation became convincing.

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u/Frequent_Opportunist 6h ago

I think it's just a mixup between the Chiquita Banana Lady and Fruit of the Loom as they had similar commercials at the time with fruit bouncing around.

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u/EpicAura99 6h ago

There are pictures of actual clothes that say “Fruit of the Loom” and have a cornucopia on them. They’re not made by the actual FotL company, but they do have the name on there. It’s an understandable confusion.

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u/coffunky 6h ago edited 6h ago

I can’t find a single photo online. I went on a Mandela Effect deep dive a couple months ago and read everything I could find about the Fruit of the Loom logo. I remember a cornucopia and my family shopped at K-mart a lot, so the knockoff idea is plausible- except there are still no photos available online of this supposed knockoff logo that haven’t been shown to be fake.

Anyway, if the photos exist I’d love to see it, since as far as I know the only cornucopia logo photos circulating were hoaxes.

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u/fungshawyone 5h ago

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u/coffunky 5h ago

The logo on that label is virtually identical to this fake mockup that was freely available online at the time that was posted. I think that’s a fake photo.

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u/Chapstickie 4h ago

Known fake

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u/qorbexl 5h ago

Trash, then

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u/Chapstickie 5h ago

No there aren’t. Except possibly that likely rewrapped pair of socks from 2024.

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u/qorbexl 5h ago

Just text, then

I have a big alien and a sasqwetch

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u/trubrarian 4h ago

Snopes did a great and thorough assessment of this: every cornucopia version that supposed photographic evidence exists of has been disproven.