The Mandela Effect

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Has anyone experienced it?
I’m currently sending my head backwards and forwards because I thought “Vimto” was “Vimpto”

In the Jessica Rabbit film, weren't they called Toons?

@diddl

In the Jessica Rabbit film, weren't they called Toons?

Yes but that was Disney. Loony Tunes is Warner Bros.

And your timeline is ten years out

Oops. And oops to everyone else who made similar replies.

Yes, I meant 1996 and 1997.

The crisps one is as ridiculous as it gets. The company who make them say they never swapped the colours. Why on earth would they lie? What possible benefit is there?

Exactly. Absolutely no benefit to the lie!

A similar one that does the rounds is people saying Cadbury’s Creme Eggs used to be much bigger. Cadbury’s says it’s not true. Now in that scenario, I can see why Cadbury’s might lie; no company wants it highlighted that their products aren’t as good value as they used to be. But the colour of the packaging? Why lie about that?

I’m sure I can remember a wickerwork cornucopia in the background of the Fruit of the Loom logo but apparently that is an example of the Mandela effect.

Prepare to have your mind blown @Sobeyondthehills

There are several famous people who I thought had died years ago. I have subsequently been surprised to see them appearing on TV or in a news article that was made very recently. Turns out they are still alive and looking very much older than I last remember them. I had read a few mistaken death reports here and there abouts and never looked into it any further.

I wonder how many times other people honest errors are the initial source for believing something that turns out to be different and if the profligacy of the internet has increased the likelihood of this happening. Mistaken news reports online, of deaths for instance, would also most likely be retracted and deleted after being noticed as erroneous, leaving no evidence that was where a wrong idea came from. Wouldn't this possibly lead to only some people being confused and the world had changed as the rest had not read the news report that may have only briefly appeared. Even misspellings, what if you had spent years living with someone else who mispronounced or misspelt something and never thought to challenge their thinking, you would think it correct too, especially if you were a child at the time.

Memory is a funny thing though. I sometimes remember being on a TV show as a very small child. It never happened, I think it came from a vivid dream donkeys years ago that for some reason I remember as real. It's no the only instance I have of such either.

@DahliaMacNamara

Seabrooks cheese and onion are in a yellow and white packet. I have some right here. Sour cream and chive are in green. But I'm mystified about how the Walkers dominance of the UK crisp market came about. Golden Wonder's correctly-coloured cheese and onion is by far the superior product.

i vaguely remember golden wonder spring onion crisps. now those were superior again.

@HarrietSchulenberg

I was one of the many people who swore salt n vinegar crisp packets swapped colours with cheese n onion. Apparently they didn't.

Haven’t they?

I am convinced they have swapped and keep telling my kids they changed!

@Turtletortle

Not the ‘Mandela effect’ but on the back of misremembering 9/11, I was in year 7 at the time & a lot of people I know around the same age, including my husband, would swear blind they were watching it live at home at lunch break that day and saw the second plane hit, despite the fact it was almost 2pm over here before even the first plane hit & we were all back in lessons by then.

i remember coming home early from school that days and seeing dm and the guys who were delivering our new fridge watching the tv so it would have been 2pm ish.

although friends tell me that they first saw the planes hit the towers on the breakfast news. I wonder if they got caught up with timezones - given that it would ave been early morning in NYC?

I am convinced they have swapped and keep telling my kids they changed!

Yes! KitKat used to be kit-kat I can picture it clearly

No matter how clearly you picture it, it never used to have a hyphen.

What I remember about crisps, having enjoyed KP, Smiths and Golden Wonder throughout childhood in the 80s, was thinking 'where the fuck did Walkers come from and how did they become the dominant brand?' when I next paid any attention to little packets of crisps, in the 2000s or 2010s.

That's what happened to crisps.

@MistressoftheDarkSide, it's the only 'Mandela Effect' that has ever got me. I even remember asking my mum about her braces at the time, as they freaked me out almost as much as Jaws had (I was probably about 7). I can't recall what she said in response, but the enduring memory of Dolly's braces is a strong one - she had them, and nothing will ever change my mind!

Further, on crisps of the 80s, does anyone else remember the Phileas Fogg brand, that made fancy savoury snacks, like tortilla chips (exotic!), lovely little garlic things called mignon morceaux, mini spicy poppadoms etc? They were great and had beautiful packaging too. Then some big brand bought them out and extinguished them. Bastards.

Crisps were better in the 1980s. Fact.

@Purplestorm83

Until recently I thought hamster was spelled ‘hampster’

In the first few weeks at Teacher Training College we did a placement observing in a Primary school and the teacher wrote 'hampster' on the board, I was so unsure if I should say anything!

@lottiegarbanzo

Further, on crisps of the 80s, does anyone else remember the Phileas Fogg brand, that made fancy savoury snacks, like tortilla chips (exotic!), lovely little garlic things called mignon morceaux, mini spicy poppadoms etc? They were great and had beautiful packaging too. Then some big brand bought them out and extinguished them. Bastards.

Crisps were better in the 1980s. Fact.

Yes I remember those. Mignon morceaux were delicious.

@Justcallmebebes

Brut used to be pronounced Brute. In the new ad Vinnie Jones pronounces it as Brew or is it just me??

Similarly, homage was pronounced 'homidge' but now it's apparently 'homarge'.

Yes I remember those. Mignon morceaux were delicious

Were they the ones like crunchy little garlic bread? I bloody loved those. It's probably a good thing I can't get them now, I'm fat enough already

Also @MistyGreenAndBlue, if it so happens that you took your name from Love to Love by UFO then I want to hi-five you.

Does anyone remember when, for a while, Hyundai started pronouncing it ‘Hyun-day’ in all their ads, when it always used to be ‘Hi-yun-dye’? Then it suddenly went back to being ‘Hi-yun-dye’ again.

@boltfromtheblueblue

Yes! KitKat used to be kit-kat I can picture it clearly

No matter how clearly you picture it, it never used to have a hyphen.

I do remember when it used to say ‘Rowntrees’ on the bar itself rather than ‘KitKat’.

I want a KitKat now.

I wonder if, in your head, you were confusing him with Ronnie Corbett?

Thanks, @DrSbaitso, I now have a mental clip of tiny, well-spoken Ronnie Corbett with a massive wig on, playing Hagrid!

It's bloody funny, actually.