I think a lot of these can be explained as wires being crossed with mixed memories. Memories of the Jiffy boxes in the cupboard next to Jif peanut butter might have mixed things up to where people misremember whether there was ever a Jiffy peanut butter.
Chick-fil-A, same thing. Being a kid and thinking “wow that’s a weird way to spell it” about the “fil-A” part and somehow blending it into believing it was about the “Chick” part. Looney Tunes, Froot Loops, Berenstain Bears, all similar processes.
The Sinbad Shazaam movie is almost certainly a mashup of a memories of Shaq’s Kazaam, the Sinbad cartoon movie from 1992, and Sinbad dressing like a Mediterranean/middle eastern pirate in All That.
The thing I cannot explain, though, is the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. I remember it that way, and I can’t find anything like that.
My money for the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia is that it a good quality bootleg called Fruit of Loom or something that got nuked at some point for copyright infringement. Kinda like all those bootleg Adidas brands.
I think a lot of these can be explained as wires being crossed with mixed memories. Memories of the Jiffy boxes in the cupboard next to Jif peanut butter might have mixed things up to where people misremember whether there was ever a Jiffy peanut butter.
Chick-fil-A, same thing. Being a kid and thinking “wow that’s a weird way to spell it” about the “fil-A” part and somehow blending it into believing it was about the “Chick” part. Looney Tunes, Froot Loops, Berenstain Bears, all similar processes.
The Sinbad Shazaam movie is almost certainly a mashup of a memories of Shaq’s Kazaam, the Sinbad cartoon movie from 1992, and Sinbad dressing like a Mediterranean/middle eastern pirate in All That.
The thing I cannot explain, though, is the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. I remember it that way, and I can’t find anything like that.
I assumed Jiffy was a mashup of Jif and Skippy.
My money for the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia is that it a good quality bootleg called Fruit of Loom or something that got nuked at some point for copyright infringement. Kinda like all those bootleg Adidas brands.