r/MandelaEffect • • 19h ago

Language/Spelling Chic fil a and more

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I got curious about this and assumed local newspapers from that area for this restaurant possibly not altered. It looks like this restaurant started not as a chicken sandwich but sandwich was licensed to other restaurants under the name chic fil a. I found actual ads, menu listing in the archives. Interestingly text in the headlines, title were replaced sometimes even if it is inside the archives. Logos are replaced in the archives and timemachine website references as well. Text inside the contextual things are not replaced properly. Search pretexts or website link names are not replaced. If page title says like chic-fil-a-something, that stayed but actual title on the page is different. That is so funny to see. Yandex search engine indexed some pages with old spelling as well.

Here are some things you can check before they modified:

Date Local newspaper What the printed ad says
May 4, 1967 Forest Park News, front page⁠ Harbin’s Drive-In anniversary ad: “CHIC-FIL-A”. Look along the bottom.
May 2, 1968 Georgia Bulletin, p. 11⁠ Butch’s Chicken House in Jonesboro: “HOME OF CHIC - FIL - A.”
April 24, 1975 Griffin Daily News, p. 16⁠ A&W Drive In: “Chic-Fil-A Sandwich”, priced at $1.19. Right-hand column.
September 25, 1994 Forsyth County News, p. 20A⁠ Full-page Lanier Crossing shopping-center promotion lists “Chic-Fil-A.”
April 26, 1995 Forsyth County News, p. 20A⁠ Another Lanier Crossing promotion lists “Chic-Fil-A.”
September 19, 1999 Forsyth County News, p. 3C⁠ Marching-band thank-you notice names “Chic-Fil-A at Lanier Crossing.” Lower right.
July 1, 1965 North Georgia Tribune, page 12⁠ — Rebel Inn advertises “Specializing in Chic-fil-A.” Upper-right corner
February 28, 1967 Forest Park Free Press, front page⁠ — The Dwarf House ad says it originated “Chic-Fil-A.” Bottom-right corner
February 1, 1968 Forest Park Free Press, front page⁠ — Greenbriar article and accompanying photo use “Chick-fil-A” with the k. Lower center

Some more popular newspaper got mixed results:

Newspaper and date Archived coverage Spelling
Los Angeles Times — April 29, 1988 Sports column⁠, mentioning Gerald Perry’s restaurant job “Chic-fil-a”, without k.
Washington Post — July 1992 Profile of founder Truett Cathy⁠ “Chick-fil-A”, with k.
Los Angeles Times — April 22, 1995 Golf coverage⁠, naming the sponsored charity championship “Chick-fil-A”, with k.
Washington Post — April 27, 1997 Golf coverage⁠, naming the charity championship “Chick-fil-A”, with k.

There are later major-paper examples too: the Washington Post’s July 4, 2007 article⁠ uses “Chic-fil-A of Waldorf.”  There are similar results for Jiffy peanut butter like earlier references uses that.

1- Why is this tool whatever used in here perfect on images but not some text inside the paragraph etc?

2- Why do they do this? Pretend like this never happened?

3- Is this tool able to change physical papers, clothes etc?


r/MandelaEffect • • 10h ago

Logos/Advertising Fruit of the Loom answer (imo)

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I tried to get to the bottom of this infamous Mandela effect because I grew up in a country where Fruit of the Loom doesn’t exist. But STILL I have a vivid memory of the image of this horn-shaped basket with fruit in it. And the supposed Mandela Effect logo looks very familiar. Why?

I came to a fairly simple answer: It was a common design element in the 90s and 2000s. It was everywhere. Nowadays even in Europe the Halloween pumpkin has become the go-to symbol for an autumn theme. But back then, harvest symbolism was more widespread.
If you look up „Horn of Plenty“ (that’s what this symbol is called) you will find hundreds of images that look like this.

TLDR: There really was a cornucopia with fruit in it, but it wasn’t on the Fruit of the Loom logo. You probably just saw it somewhere else.
And this was probably a memory from a time when you couldn’t read yet. So you wouldn’t have been able to tell what the logo stood for.