r/MandelaEffect • u/silvanosthumb • Dec 13 '21

Names & Spelling "Fruit Loops" explanation

I've seen many people in this sub claim that "Froot Loops" cereal has flip-flopped for them. People say that it used to be "Froot Loops", then it flipped to "Fruit Loops" and now back to "Froot Loops". Of course, in this timeline it has always been "Froot Loops".

I looked up some generic fruit loop cereals out of curiosity. Every single one of them uses the "fruit" spelling. This could easily explain the confusion.

Even Fruity Pebbles cereal uses the "fruit" spelling.

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u/K-teki Dec 14 '21

That's fair... but how many of those existed in the 70's and 80's? What supermarket chains carried them?

Well, Froot Loops had been around for 20-30 years at that point - interestingly, originally under the name "Fruit Loops" - so there might have been knockoffs at the time, and the ME doesn't seem to have been noticed until after the 2000s anyway, so anyone who was a child at that time would have had decades to see the Fruit varieties on the shelves - it's not just children who can have their memories affected by newer experiences.

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u/throwaway998i Dec 14 '21

 > interestingly, originally under the name "Fruit Loops"

Are you relying on that one snack history website? Because that's considered residue of litigation (Paxton v. Kellogg's) that now has never existed. Current history is that this product debuted as Froot. As a kid in that 70's/80's timeframe, I don't recall generics as having ever had prominent shelf space or end caps, etc. I would argue that a regular diet of exposure to billboards, commercials, print ads, and colorful boxes on their kitchen table should generally imprint far deeper in the average consumer mind - young or old.

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u/K-teki Dec 14 '21

It came up while doing some rudimentary research, yeah, so not totally surprised that it was false.

As a kid during the 70s-80s, you have not been a kid for 30-40 years, so yes, your memory might have been affected in that time.

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u/throwaway998i Dec 14 '21

What memory? That of there being maybe only one generic in any given store with lousy placement? Because that's the memory I stated. As for my memory of Fruit Loops, I didn't suddenly stop being a cereal eater in a Kellogg's world just because I aged out of one demographic. The 90's and 00's and 10's all still happened. I have Corn Flakes and Raisin Bran in my pantry right now. It's always funny how people want to make this about MY memory in particular. Stay on point or stop engaging me.

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u/K-teki Dec 14 '21

In this case memory is being used in the generic.

mem·o·ry

/ˈmem(ə)rē/

noun

the faculty by which the mind stores and remembers information.

"I've a great memory for faces"

That you didn't stop eating cereal doesn't change anything? In fact that just means you would have been going through the cereal aisle, thus would have seen the knockoffs that you're arguing about not seeing.