The Mandela effect

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Does anyone have any strong assertions that their false memories are real, even though it's been proven they are not?

I've just read about 100 people all absolutely swearing that the fruit of the loom logo had a cornucopia. I don't remember it with one at all, I think they're all batshit, honestly 😄

I also don't think there was a movie called shabaaz or whatever it was, I don't think Mandela died in prison and I don't think the monopoly man had a monocle

What I am am absolutely certain of though, is that walkers bloody well DID change their crisp colours!!!

Walkers own website says they didn't change colours

I think the braces thing rings a bell, the inference was they had something in common , what was it then (rhetorical question I will do my own research!)

I have memories of walking through the Stone Henge stones on a school trip as a child in the late 1980s and touching all the stones.

However, Google says Stone Henge was roped off in 1977.

Is there a false memory? Or did anyone else do this in the 80s/90s?

I disagree. I have always hated looking at holes. I remember being a child in the 70s and there was a lorry in front of us and it was carrying loads of pipes. We were behind the lorry and all I could see was the ends of the pipes with the holes. I couldn’t bear it and begged my dad to overtake the lorry but it then kept overtaking us so I could see the holes again. It was a nightmare journey! Way before the Internet. And way before I knew that there was a name for it.

No.

until 1989 when it was acquired by Pepsi, walkers was a regional crisp brand only. Those of us who were kids in the 80s will probably remember Golden Wonder, KP, Tudor, Smiths - Walkers was definitely not a big brand in Scotland. Many of these other brands used blue for their salt and vinegar flavour.

it boggles my mind that some people will not accept they are misremembering. They prefer to believe there’s this massive cover up. 🙄

I always feel like I'M being gaslit by this one!!

One of my earliest memories is of my dad buying me the wrong flavour crisps because I asked for salt and vinegar and he grabbed a packet of blue Walkers, thinking they were S&V. I was very disappointed with my cheese and onion crisps. This would have been mid-80s.

It's not that a single person refuses to believe they are misremembering. It's very specifically a false collective memory.

So while the poster who mentions Anne Heche has had a weird experience, that's not the Mandela effect, because no one else remembers this.

Walkers Cheese & Onion crisp packet from 1983. They have always been blue.

We did too. I've got pictures of me in the 70s next to the stones before they were roped off. I'm guessing they allowed organised trips in. We also went into Downing Street and stood outside number 10 as brownies in the early 80s until we had to leave so Margaret Thatcher 🤮 could exit.

I noticed my reaction to things with holes before I’d ever heard of it on the internet. My first experience of it was a wart my mum had frozen on her hand. As it started to break down it became pick holes and the sight (and memory) of it gave me a physical reaction. That must be over 20 years ago.

Similarly I experienced submechanophobia before I eventually looked it up to see if other people had the same feeling and reaction. Turns out they do, and it has a name 😂

Walkers definitely didn’t switch colours. As others have said it was because Golden Wonder were the reverse.

Thanks, good to know it was possible!

I never got to go to Downing Street, it's a shame it all had to stop!

I remember Walkers green and blue swapping flavours and a cornucopia on Fruits of the Loom.

It wouldn’t have been possible when you visited though surely, as it had been roped off long before then?

Maybe they let us snot nosed kids in for some reason?!

FOTL did have a cornucopia. Well it had a bunch of fruit, whether it was in a horn or not, a bit unsure. That was it's whole thing?! I have a school photo of me wearing a green FOTL jumper with the fruit. I'll try and find it!

All the others I've heard do sound like false memories. Even the actual Mandela one, I am baffled by it but I guess if it originated in America, their history and geography of other nations could easily be somewhat lacking.

I rather doubt that. It was roped off for good reason and a group of school kids would be the last people you’d want to allow in. I’d put money on it being a false memory.

Does this mean I have to stop telling people I played between the stones?

Re Jaw’s girlfriend - I remember her as having braces on her teeth too - does she not??

Of course not.

Have you been saving that packet just in case this conversation came up 😁

Someone changed their crips colour - but not sure if I remember who it was - I know they were big so might assume walkers but if other posters are right and another brand was bigger then - explains the confusion.

Never understood the Mandela one - as it was a big thing him getting out and waving and then being the SA president.

In the James Bond film Moonraker there’s a scene where Jaws (giant man with metal teeth) found a girlfriend, who grinned at him with full on metal braces on her teeth. I can remember this clearly, but apparently she doesn’t have braces.

I'd have probably said she did as well though could have been thick glasses instead.

I played between stones - but it wasn't famous stone henge was a smaller regional.

One of the teacher knew farmer who had one in his field and he let us eat lunch there getting of coach on a day trip somewhere else and play in the henge.

Unzipping her own body bag? 😕

Oooh what year was this?