The Mandela effect

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Cantheowneroftheredcorsapleasemovetheircar · 22/10/2025 20:15

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!!!

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DingDongJingle · 23/10/2025 19:12

Furnitureeurniture · 23/10/2025 19:08

Yes! I agree. Someone somewhere that collects old crisp packets will have one. I hope someone on here is a crisp packet collector! I saw a collector on t.v so they too exist!!

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They didn’t though! Walkers have confirmed it, and why would they lie? Plus no one has ever found any evidence. People are mistaking it for Golden Wonder, which was a bigger crisp brand at the time.

looselegs · 23/10/2025 19:15

I'm 57 and my parents ran newsagent shops for many years.
Walkers cheese and onion were ALWAYS blue.
Golden Wonder were ALWAYS green.

MyHappyPoet · 23/10/2025 19:29

SpotHaven · 23/10/2025 14:53

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.

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I'm the same since I was a child. Crumpets and holes in boiled rice from the stove set me off. I think it's some kind of primitive response to something that was poisonous back in the stone age or something - just my theory. I've had it all my life and long before the internet was a thing.

tesseractor · 23/10/2025 19:38

@nomas I think it may have been possible if it was an arranged school trip. I am sure I heard from someone not very long ago that they had been on a private group visit to Stonehenge one evening where they were permitted to walk right up to and among the stones.
So it may not be a false memory. Or it could have been Avebury.

I did a special tour a couple of years ago as an English Heritage member where we got to walk among the stones - early morning before it was open to the public.

CurlewKate · 23/10/2025 20:01

Imissgoldengrahams · 23/10/2025 18:55

The monoply man not having a monocle will fry my head

I think the one with the monocle was advertising peanuts? Or some sort of nut?

MammaTill2Pojkar · 23/10/2025 22:13

Imissgoldengrahams · 23/10/2025 18:55

The monoply man not having a monocle will fry my head

He does have a monocle on some versions of the game (on some of the money for example) so that one is semi disproved even if they claim he never had one there are tiktoks and such that show him with one.

MammaTill2Pojkar · 23/10/2025 22:16

https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/oiAAAOSwf1Bi~pX-/s-l1200.webp

Monopoly kids version, some money has a monocle ^

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