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”

I still haven't come to to terms with Nestle being pronounced Nesslay as opposed to Nessles!

Yes, it was always Nessles, then suddenly it wasn't. I still call it Nessles. You wouldn't pronounce 'wrestle' as Wresslay.

@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.

@HarrietSchulenberg

You're not wrong!
Walkers confused everyone when they launched cheese and onion blue and Salt and vinegar green.

Crisps before then, like Golden Wonder, had established green for cheese and blue for vinegar in our collective consciousness.

I still can't get used to it.

Yes, it was always Nessles, then suddenly it wasn't. I still call it Nessles. You wouldn't pronounce 'wrestle' as Wresslay

It was never Nessles, to anyone who could read the name properly. And wrestle isn't french.
Nestlé. There is even an accent on it.

But they called it Nessles on the old Milky Bar adverts, not Nesslay. Didn't they?

@ChristmasFluff Hopefully, the picture has attached, but I'm wondering if you'd seen a map like this as a child in a book, which is why you'd remember New Zealand at 2 o'clock? You assumed you'd seen it on your brother's globe but actually saw it elsewhere?

@boltfromtheblueblue

That reminds me of my mother to some extent. She was incandescent with rage at A BRITISH COMPANY HAVING THEIR NAME CHANGED TO KEEP FOREIGNS HAPPY

Did you tell her they were Swiss?

Yes. She didn't believe me. It was therefore even worse, being (sorry, I got it wrong before, it wasn't BRITISH) AN ENGLISH COMPANY BEING TAKEN OVER BY THE FRENCH.

(I have no idea how the takeover of Rowntree's got mashed up in her head to a second, French company taking over the makers of Milky Bars and exacting their evil revenge upon the innocent English Nessles by making them say their name wrong).

But then again, she did insist that her father was injured at Wypers despite my grandmother being fluent in French (as a result of spending WWI in a Belgian Convent).

Just to add to the crisp confusion.... Golden Wonder ready salted packets used to be dark blue

@CounsellorTroi

I have a distinct recollection of a miniseries I watched with my mum in the late 90s/early naughtiest. It was based on a novel I’d enjoyed as a teen called Bride of . It was set in Cornwall. The lead female character was called Favel - they pronounced it Favelle in the programme and I’d always thought it was Fayvel. The lead male character was played by Anthony Andrews. But this series doesn’t appear in his filmography and I’ve never been able to find any reference to it online!

Have you mentioned this mini series on Mumsnet before? Because if you haven’t somebody else remembers it. I suggested you/other poster might be thinking of Penmarric.

I vividly remember watching a program about Tiananmen Square and the man who stood in front of the tank was run over - except he wasn't.

I only found out he wasn't when I read an article about the Mandela Effect and it was given as an example. I immediately searched for footage, and it was exactly as I remembered, except after a bit he walks away, whereas I remembered the tank rolling forward and blocking him from view before running him over.

9/11 live footage definitely showed the second plaabe hitting. I had a half day from college, had been back at my digs about 30 mins and the TV went to live broadcast with much discussion of a bomb, and then as they were filming the first tower the second plane hit. I'll never forget the complete and utter bewilderment I felt at what I'd just seen, how it just didn't make sense.

@Awwlookatmybabyspider

Me too Harriet. I remember as clear as day Cheese and onion crisps were green and salt and vinegar were blue. The colours were switched in about 1992.

Walkers have always had blue for cheese/onion. Smiths crisps had green for that flavour.

@demelza82 thank you for your recommendation earlier - I haven't actually listened to that episode yet but I've been working my way through a few others and I think it's my new favourite podcast.

I'm sure the crisp packet colours were different too. The milk tops were also changed around.

@fancypuffin I remember tinkerbell and the dot too!!

@Cactus1982

My parents are both convinced they watched the Hillsborough disaster happen live, but it was never shown live in the U.K. The footage you see was taken from the BBC who were recording highlights to be shown later on Match of The Day.

Yet they won’t have it and they both saw it happen live.

It was only on the radio. The live football disaster was the Bradford Fire in 1985. I was working in a TV rental shop and saw it happen on multiple screens. That’ll be what they’re thinking of.

I’m convinced I saw Hillsborough live on TV I’m shocked it wasn’t. On Saturday afternoons the football would always be on (I wasn’t watching it) and I remember my cousin calling out to watch what was happening and us standing there watching in shock.

It’s interesting how we build things up in our mind, have seen news clips and then discuss with others and convince ourselves of something that didn’t quite happen as we remember

I truly am shocked

My fave Mandela effect examples that haven't been mentioned:

Febreze was deffo called Febreeze at one point but apparently its never been that!

Also the shoe brand Skechers has apparently never had a T in it?!?!

Fruit of the loom has no cornucopia apparently.

Rubiks cubes have never been called Rubix cubes.

The song I love rock and roll. Apparently the words have always been "Saw him dancing there by the record machine" and not "saw him standing there"

@HarrietSchulenberg they did!! I 100 percent remember this, cheese and onion used to be green and salt and vingager blue

they did!! I 100 percent remember this, cheese and onion used to be green and salt and vingager blue

They still are, in some brands. But never Walkers crisps, is the point. You're remembering other brands.

I remember hearing Hillsborough unfolding, on the radio. Will have been the 6pm news.

Mignon morceaux were the best weren't they. They must have achieved close to maximum possible calorie saturation; oily, garlicky, delicious little croutons.

Golden Wonder- cheese and onion are green.
Walkers are blue.
Both have been around all my life and I’m nearly 60.

@boltfromtheblueblue

Yes, it was always Nessles, then suddenly it wasn't. I still call it Nessles. You wouldn't pronounce 'wrestle' as Wresslay

It was never Nessles, to anyone who could read the name properly. And wrestle isn't french.
Nestlé. There is even an accent on it.

The advert definitely used to say "Nessles" to rhyme with wrestles, despite the fact it should have always been "nestlay"

The monopoly man doesn't have a monocle?!

We have a weird one in our family. We used to go to a different place for our summer holiday every year and the year my mum was pregnant with my sister we went to Cornwall, then the year my sister was a baby we went to Wales. This is confirmed in the old calendars for both years that my mum keeps in the loft. So imagine our surprise when we look through the photo albums and find my sister was clearly in Cornwall with us, in photos that have a date on them from before she was born We’ve come up with multiple theories from the date on the camera being set wrong to my parents forgetting when my sister was actually born, but that doesn’t explain why the holiday details on the calendars are the wrong way round. Honestly we’re still baffled!

Mignon morceaux were the best weren't they. They must have achieved close to maximum possible calorie saturation; oily, garlicky, delicious little croutons.

I want them back, NOW!