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Missed opportunity for fruit of the loin
I must admit, some of the fake ones look right to me. I don’t get how people misremember the spelling of Froot Loops though. How do you not remember the extra Os made of froot loops?
This looks like one of those ADHD tests I took. I failed them…found like one or two differences but they all look the same to me. I’m not American though
“i don’t have a faulty memory, it was that African space warlock Mandela fucking with the timeline again!”
I always thought it was the _Bear_enstein Bears.
What’s different with the bears?
Berenstein in the original universe versus Berenstain in our current twisted timeline.
I think this one has been explain by the fact that there was a lot of typos on VHS tape labels and such when we were kids
I doubt those typos are the reason people misremember, but it does show how easy it is to get the name mixed up
How exactly did you access our parent universe? If you say you used AI i’m leaving.
It’s Berenstien.
And Nelson Muntz is still President of South Africa?
Ha, ha!
This is the only one that makes me question reality. My dad spent a lot of time working in Germany before I was born and we had decorative beer steins all over the house. I remember asking about them and as I started to read being told, “see it’s steins, like Daddy’s fancy mugs.” What the in the alternate memory making dimension hole is going on here!?
i assume febreeze went through a formula change and it sucks now, likely cheapflation?
Isn’t Jiffy a brand of quickbake mixes? In the little blue boxes
This one is a brand of peanut butter, I believe.
Yes, Jiffy is a very popular and inexpensive brand of corn bread mix, in groceries all over down here.
I think a lot of these can be explained as wires being crossed with mixed memories. Memories of the Jiffy boxes in the cupboard next to Jif peanut butter might have mixed things up to where people misremember whether there was ever a Jiffy peanut butter.
Chick-fil-A, same thing. Being a kid and thinking “wow that’s a weird way to spell it” about the “fil-A” part and somehow blending it into believing it was about the “Chick” part. Looney Tunes, Froot Loops, Berenstain Bears, all similar processes.
The Sinbad Shazaam movie is almost certainly a mashup of a memories of Shaq’s Kazaam, the Sinbad cartoon movie from 1992, and Sinbad dressing like a Mediterranean/middle eastern pirate in All That.
The thing I cannot explain, though, is the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. I remember it that way, and I can’t find anything like that.
I assumed Jiffy was a mashup of Jif and Skippy.
pro-tip: putting image URLs in your comment like this:
makes the image show up in your comment rather than just the URL
My favorite take on the subject Internet Comment Etiquette: “The Mandela Effect”
I give up, what’s the difference between the two Chick-fil-A?
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Just the spelling: Chic-fil-A vs. Chick-fil-A.
I have specific memories of how the spelling of Chic-fil-a looked so wierd to me, especially at a mall where the word chic actually gets used.
Thar reminds me how I misread “Disney” as “Disnep” in their cursive logo for a long time in my childhood. Does that mean there is a Disnep dimension out there? :P
Yes, that branched new timelines where Disnep owns everything, etc. It’s pretty basic science.
Gisnep
I joke that it can be read as disneyp because of the fucking cursive too
Son of a bitch
Are you in?
… yes.
Many of these discrepancies can be attributed to regional differences.
A famous example: Was it the Berenstain Bears or the Berenstein Bears? The truth is both, just depending on where you got your books from
edit: fucking nevermind, it’s already in the post
A famous example: Was it the Berenstain Bears or the Berenstein Bears? The truth is both, just depending on where you got your books from
This is false. It’s actually incredible that you could go out of your way to make this false statement, with no supporting evidence.
Don’t be rude, maybe it was like that in his original worldline.
Of all the examples here… this one is a persons last name. Why would that be a regional difference?
How would you know, are you from their dimension?
It wasn’t Chic-fil-a it was Chik-fil-A I am From Atlanta
I can see why they would change it. No-one is eating at a place called Chik-fil-A I am From Atlanta, especially when there’s a Carl’s Jr But I Think That’s Regional nearby.
Perhaps dyslexia would explain some of these?
