What is your Mandela effect moment?

Fruit of the Loom (the underwear maker) had a cornucopia in its logo, I don't care what they claim.

Not quite the Mandela effect, but it's probably the only time I can tell this story here, so here goes.

When I was a very little kid, one of my favorite snacks was a strawberry-flavoured margarine from a local brand, named Delma. This specific variety was called "Delma Căpșunica" ("căpșunică" in Romanian means "little strawberry") and I absolutely adored it. In retrospect it was probably carcinogens on toast, but that's not the point.

It got discontinued pretty quickly, so it didn't have much of a lasting cultural impact, but it did on me. As I grew up, I had random moments when I remembered it existed, so I decided to look it up online.

For almost a decade, I wasn't able to find any traces of it existing on the internet, to the point of convincing myself I just hallucinated it or didn't remember it properly. When telling others about it, they had no recollection of such a thing existing, and my mom didn't remember either but wouldn't be surprised if we did have it in the pantry at some point.

Until a few years back, when I saw someone uploaded an ad from 2003, finally proving its existence! However the packaging is not the same one I remembered.

And then this reel appeared (it's from a YouTube reaction video from ZappyTV) and that's the packaging I remember!

And also a bunch of people confirming they used to eat it as kids. I'm not alone!

Anyway, there's probably so many examples of early-2000s products that didn't manage to be relevant enough for the internet to properly preserve them, especially in areas like Eastern Europe. I wonder what other things from my childhood got forgotten by everyone, including myself.

You never said how long the movies had to be, so of course it's that the supposed Beren"stain" family's name changed from Berenstein.

Also, this is tangential but I assert that most people who remember Nelson Mandela having died in prison would never have heard of him if he'd died in prison.

...transformers: the movie, original 1986 theatrical run, optimus prime dies, fades to grey, and crumbles to dust in similar fashion to starscream a few scenes later...a year later, hasbro decides to bring back optimus and re-cuts his death scene to end just after he fades to grey, which was featured on the television broadcast and all the subsequent home-video releases, but not in the original script nor comic adaptation which both match what we saw in theatres...

...my friends and i know what we saw in theatres (we didn't even watch the film together) but officially "it never happened"...

(this was a longstanding point of of contention across the fan community back when i moderated the transformers usenet group; there may have been alternative prints in theatrical circulation back in 1986)

While I was visiting my family in Canada last month, I re-watched Office Space with my parents and nephews (probably for the dozenth time overall, but for the first time in well over a decade).

Of course everyone knows the scene where Peter (main character) asks Lawrence (mustachioed neighbor) what he would do with a million bucks, and Lawrence responds "two girls at the same time." However I was absolutely certain that there's a later scene (I thought maybe a mid- or post-credits scene) that called back to this, where Peter's outside their apartments and sees Lawrence hanging out with two women in a kiddy pool on the front lawn, leaning back with an arm around each of them, and Peter and Lawrence share a wink and a nod before Peter goes into his apartment. I was so confused when that scene never showed up, and spent like an hour searching the internet to find absolutely zero evidence that such a scene has ever existed. I have no idea why I was (and still kind of am) so convinced it exists, why I think I've seen it every prior time I've watched that movie, and why I can picture the whole thing so perfectly in my mind.

The end of ATLA. So I was starting college when the last season aired. I watched the finale live on Nick.

Mine have to do with vegetation. Every few years I'll see a new plant and then it'll be everywhere and when I ask about it people will have said it's been here forever. The first was Valeriana rubra, which I first noticed in 2018 and was informed by my mom that we had it in our back yard for my entire childhood. The second was in 2022 Amaryllis belladonna. It looks like something that would pop up from a grave and is suuuuper obvious. Again, very off that I never noticed them before. They are prolific.

Anyway, my wife and I call these "patch upgrades" now. Like we got a new set of plants uploaded into our head.

The popular chicken sandwich fast food Chikfila was always Chikfila, and I still refuse to acknowledge the conspiracy that it's spelled "Chickfila".

Minor in any case, but while I do recognize some others (like the fruit of the loom one), this one I feel like I'm on an island. It was stylized dammit!

Jaws’ girlfriend in the end of the one Bond movie had braces, matching is metal teeth.

Turns out she didn’t have braces.

For some reason, I keep thinking Warren Buffett is dead. I swear he's died three times now — but then he shows up in the news again and I'm all, "Wait... what? Didn't he die, like, a year ago?"

One of these days he's going to die for real and I'll think he's still alive.

Can’t find the seahorse emoji

The GIF of the guy in a black shirt and sunglasses smoothly deploying a folding chair by rapidly extending his arm and then sitting down. In this new reality that has apparently always been Jason Momoa.

I swear there was a version of The Police’s “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” that dealt with the teacher forcing himself on the student.

I would swear David Lynch's Dune had a scene where Muad'dib is being shown a cache of water in a seitch. There's something about how the walls sre so smooth that water doesn't stick to the sides where it would evaporate, since water is so precious they cannot lose a drop. I think this scene is in the book, in reality. The last time I saw the movie I don't remember seeing it, and yet it's very vivid in my mind. Kyle MacLachlan gazing up in awe, then a tight closeup of the water and the dark gray-yellow-brown wall of the cache with droplets running down with an echoey droplet sound. Music rises. Very Lynchian.

for me its always been "ba dum dum tss" and other version being "ba dum tss" feels like something is missing like when you listen to the song they yoinked the nokia ringtone from

I saw it in the theater and remember the same thing, and it is absolutely not just your imagination.

EDIT: He even stubs the cigarette out in his own blood.