Your Mandela Effect moment

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I posted about mine on here a while back… it was about two celebrities that I distinctly remembered were supposed to have dated, but there’s literally nothing about in online, and no one here remembered either (and even found proof that one half of the supposed couple was married to someone else at the time!)

Have you had a Mandela Effect moment? And, when you realised you’d misremembered something, how did you react? My instinct was to look for logic explanations (e.g. I’d misunderstood a denial of a rumoured relationship). However, when I look at these things online, I’m amazed by how many people will accept literally any other explanation than “I was wrong”.

One that particularly fascinates me is around a film called Shazam. Countless people claim they can remember it, that they used to watch it all the time when they were kids… yet it doesn’t exist. When you read into it, it actually becomes quite obvious how it happened: there was a film called Kazaam that came out around the same time with the exact plot they describe, and Sinbad - the actor/comedian they believe starred as a genie in Shazam - starred in a series of TV ads as a genie around the same time. Yet thousands utterly refuse to believe that there’s no such film.

Anyone got any good examples?

@MadeOfAllWork what was the dominant brand before walkers?

Yes, yes you can and you are.

Golden wonder has always had cheese n onion green and salt and vinegar blue, I'm convinced Walkers became more popular in the 90s and that's why we've all made the mistake.

Ha ha - yes I definitely didn't read all the responses before posting!

It depends slightly on the part of the country you were in. Golden Wonder and Smiths were very popular but Seabrooks and Tudor were big in some areas.

All of them had blue for salt and vinegar and green for cheese and onion.

Should have read more of the thread before sticking my comment about crisps on

Mickey mouse has a tail and it's looney tunes not toons

It's weird because I (and countless other people) remember it as Steele

Same

Is it because Danielle ends with a e perhaps?

Haha, if you find proof of it's actual existence of any sort let me know because I've searched multiple times and rewatched the series and it's nowhere!

OP I remember an animated series called Shazzan. Could that be it? All I can remember is the name and that it featured a camel called Kaboobie.

I have just looked it up and it was about two teenage siblings travelling around the world on the camel, with the help of Shazzan, a genie with mystical powers.

Yes. I posted about it earlier. A Hanna-Barbera cartoon series from the later 1960s.

Sorry, haven't RTFT, but on the crisps topic, I remember ready salted used to be either red or dark blue. I assume that actually golden wonder was dark blue, then walkers came in with red. The funny thing is that red for ready salted does not bother me in the slightest, but green for S&V and blue for C&O still seem like a travesty all these years later, and it's entirely due to how I rationalised the colours as a kid. Onion = vegtable = green, salt = sea = blue. S&V light blue, ready salted dark blue because the salt was of greater prominence. RED-y salted worked fine for me, and was adopted without issue. S&V, and C&O, both flavours I would never choose in a shop anyway still bug me, purely because it doesn't tally with kid me's logic 🤔

Apologies @AutumnCrow I skimmed through and didn’t realise

Yes, Walkers came out and they were different. Golden Wonder had green cheese and onion and blue salt and vinegar (and probably other companies), but Walkers has always been the way it is now.

There was a change. I remember the same as you. As does my DH

No there wasn't. You can't really believe you remember Walkers changing when they didn't and about 20 other posters have explained it was a different brand.

Sigh

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Thats literally what the Mandela effect is - multiple people "remembering" the wrong thing

My Mandela moment involves a MN thread I opened about the Mandela Effect that didn't once mention crisps

A popular one I've seen before is the fruit of the loom logo. A lot of people think the fruit was nestled in a basket but it never has been.

This thread could be really interesting - if everyone would STOP TALKING ABOUT CRISPS!

No worries, as long as you were eating salt and vinegar crisps at the time