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?

I've given up

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

You clearly haven’t read a Mandela thread on a British forum before. 90% of the thread is always about crisps.

Could it have been when you are travelling?
cheese and onion is green in some other countries - definitely in mine, I remember being confused initially when I
moved here (they go by Lays there though but packaging is very similar looking)

Not sure if this is quite a Mandela effect but the fact Picasso died in the 1970’s when I always assume he was from the 1800’s

This is how I remember it (that's ironic to start with). In the 70s early 80s walkers in our area - Yorkshire wasn't the main crisps that you bought. Tere was golden wonder, smiths, Seabrook's and Tudor. Salt and vinegar was in blue bags. When walkers started to become the more popular crisp they had salt and vinegar in the green bag we all know today but because we were used to seeing them in blue packets many people bought walkers cheese and onion expecting salt and vinegar. But walkers have always put salt and vinegar in green packets and there was definitely never a change in the 90s.
Gary Lineker appearing in the adverts with welcome home playing after returning from Japan because he was from Leicester where Walkers is based but he had nothing to do with the change.in colour but they did rename the crisps Salt and Lineker for a time in the 90s.

Pissarro was.

Never salt and vinegar, Golden Wonder cheese and onion were my favourite, in the green packet

The time cannot come fast enough when the generation who misremember Crispgate are all dead and no one will have to have this fucking tiresome subject ever again.

In the film Moonraker, the baddie, Jaws bumps into the be-spectacled, pony-tailed, gingham-clad tiny blonde character, Dolly. He smiles, showing her his terrifying metal teeth, and she smiles back, showing him her braces (unlikely romance ensues). I have a memory of it clear as day. Except it's not in the film, and there are no deleted scenes to back it up. I will go to my grave believing it happened.

@Luddite26 I remember Seabrooks crisps being brought down by northerners to where I worked in the southeast. This was the early 90s and you couldn’t get Seabrooks in the local shops. So if someone went home for a visit they would bring extra back for the other northern people!The Beefy and cheese and onion were especially popular. In fact, aren’t Seabrooks cheese and onion branded mostly in yellow with a bit of blue?!

Because loads of people are in fact holding on to that after it has been explained. They are continuing to argue and saying they definitely remember it. That's what is annoying people.

I honestly think is a generational thing. Gen X, like me, remember the change and what actually happened. Millennials don’t quite remember in as much detail but added to that they can’t be wrong, about anything. It’s the rest of the world that is wrong.

They will outlive us Gen Xers.

On another topic, what were the crisps that the crisp man would bring into the pub and sell. I remember a mustard flavoured one..

Brannigan’s?

Oh Brannigan’s ham and mustard were wonderful.

I remember clear as day driving home from the hospital after having dc1 and mcflys "five colours in her hair" was playing on the radio chart show and I mentioned to dh that it was no.1 the day she was born.
This was in 2001 and the song didn't come out till 2004. We lived in a different country at that time and had a specific car and I remember being sat in the back seat of that car driving along this other country's roads on the way home.
Obviously my memory is wrong but it's so clear.

Do you think some of these scenes, like the Vicar of Dibley one referred to above, might have been deleted because they're now considered to be 'triggering' (in the modern parlance)?

Just to continue on the crisps discussion (sorry). Walkers and Lays are the same company. Lays Salt and vinegar are blue - no wonder we are confused!

*honestly think is a generational thing. Gen X, like me, remember the change and what actually happened. Millennials don’t quite remember in as much detail but added to that they can’t be wrong, about anything. It’s the rest of the world that is wrong.

They will outlive us Gen Xers.

Nope. I’m an older Millennial and I remember the change and discussing it with the newsagent but it was a change of brands I remember, they’d mostly sold Tudor’s and Golden Wonder before Walkers dominated the market, not colours. No delusions here.

I remember that scene as well.

Was this on an advert or a comedy sketch show? Feels familiar…
For lovers of Brannigan’s Tesco recently had beef and horseradish crisps and we commented that they were like Brannigan’s.. in the Finest range, large staring bags.

Staring? Sharing 😂

Do you think some of these scenes, like the Vicar of Dibley one referred to above, might have been deleted because they're now considered to be 'triggering' (in the modern parlance)?

People have unreliable memories. That’s all. I’m not sure why people find that so hard to believe.

I watched every episode of TVOD when it was originally released and then throughout the years and there was no such scene. I don’t think a black Vicar would have been so shocking in the 2000s either.

Thank you! Honestly it’s such a relief to know I wasn’t going mad and making it up 😂