r/mildyinteresting • u/Ebonystealth • Mar 24 '26

science savvy 🧬 The left side represents the most common false memories from the Mandela Effect—a psychological phenomenon where large groups of people share the same vivid but incorrect recollection.

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u/youpoopedyerpants Mar 25 '26

This is driving me nuts. Oscar Mayer lit-rilly has a song spelling it out. It’s NEVER remotely been anything else.

And “choosy moms choose jif”?? Choosy moms have never chosen “jiffy.” There is a brand of cornbread called jiffy mix though???

Are we just misremembering things and trying to pass it off as a conspiracy instead of just admitting we have fallible memory?

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u/handi503 Mar 25 '26

My bologna has a first name, it’s O-S-C-A-R! My bologna has a second name, it’s M-A-Y-E-R!

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u/HeyNateBarber Mar 25 '26

I like to eat it every day and if you ask me why ill sayyyyyy

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u/Lord_Volgon Mar 25 '26

Cuz Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A

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u/FaithHopePixiedust Mar 25 '26

Legit how I learned how to spell “bologna.”

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u/kschmit516 Mar 25 '26

I have been singing “m-e-y-e-r” since the 90s…

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u/handi503 Mar 25 '26

Sorry you had to find out this way that you’ve been singing it wrong.

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u/ThePolemicist Mar 26 '26

'Cause Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A

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u/SomebodyLied Mar 25 '26

I think “Jiffy” is just the result of conflating “Jif” and “Skippy”.

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u/BearFromPhilly Mar 25 '26

Could be remembering Jiffy Pop too, very popular stovetop popcorn brand for a time.

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u/FaithHopePixiedust Mar 25 '26

“The magic treat, as much fun to make as it is to eat.”

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u/Storrin Mar 25 '26

Just about every single person I know calls Totino's pizzas Tostino's and I have no idea why or how their brains merged the names of a frozen pizza with a corn chip. People really do be going through life paying zero attention.

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u/ToothZealousideal297 Mar 25 '26

It’s just brands. It’s sad enough that a handful of companies own all of them, and that people can identify brands accurately based on one letter in the logo for every letter in the alphabet. I’m not about to guilt someone for not caring that Jif peanut butter, Jiffy pop popcorn, Jiffy Libe, and Jiffy cornbread mix are separate companies—I’m not even entirely sure no two of them are owned by the same parent company and I hate that it feels like I should go check now for moral reasons.

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u/Storrin Mar 25 '26

So you are someone that cares so much about being a responsible consumer that you are willing to research parent companies, but you simultaneously don't find it concerning at all that a significant number of people can't even read the name of the product going into their shopping cart?

Is the brand name the most important info on a label? No. Am I going to delude myself into believing they missed the name because they were in such a hurry to compare unit prices and ingredients lists? Also no. It's because your average consumer is a moron that assumes zero responsibility for their purchasing power.

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u/ToothZealousideal297 Mar 25 '26

I’m marveling at the Wile E. Coyote platform of planks off a cliff edge you built for your conclusions from my comment there. Congratulations on managing to take that personally, I guess.

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u/Storrin Mar 25 '26

Congratulations on managing to take that personally, I guess.

I don't even know how you inferred this, so I'm just gonna block and move on with my day. Kinda seems like your original comment just wanted to talk about your own thing anyway.

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u/[deleted] Mar 25 '26

ive absolutely said this before. people are embarrassed that they dont know shit about Mandela so they try to pass it off like “its crazy that we all thought he was dead this whole time right?”

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u/Malacro Mar 25 '26

The original “Mandela Effect” was basically one person with a platform who thought Nelson Mandela died in prison, and when they found out they were wrong they tried to make it like a whole bunch of people thought that too and succeeded in making people think there was whole swathes of people that believed they same thing.

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u/PureBee4900 Mar 25 '26

the mandela effect- or as I like to call it- being wrong,

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u/VintageZero Mar 25 '26

People hate being wrong more than anything else.

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u/HeyNateBarber Mar 25 '26

I think people confuse with Jiffy Lube or something

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u/macthetube Mar 27 '26

Are we just misremembering things and trying to pass it off as a conspiracy...

My theory is that some of these are disinformation to poison the topic.

Remember Pizzagate? It was ridiculous to suggest that a cannibal/pedophile cabal was using food as code words for heinous acts, but it became more ridiculous to claim they met in a non-existent basement beneath a pizza joint.

10% truth & 90% lies.

And frankly, I don't care what the reason is that we are being gaslit about a fkn underwear logo but the fact that so much effort has been put into sowing distrust, not only among humans and their experiences, but to distrust ones own mind is eerily convenient to certain people and their goals of dominance.

I misremember things just like everyone. When I become aware that I've misremembered something, I can usually backtrack my thoughts and see how I came to the misconception. This doesn't happen to me with the cornucopia issue.

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u/youpoopedyerpants Mar 27 '26

This is the shit I COME HERE FOR! HELL YEAH!

You’ve got me maybe not completely convinced, but still on board. Keep on keepin on brother.

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u/geopolitikin Mar 25 '26

This is a marketing tactic. Its probably the newest one. Fruit of the loom was the start of it.

Its just gaslight marketing

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u/Berkut22 Mar 25 '26

There's also jiffy pop popcorn, which might have people confused.

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u/Safe_Software_1640 Mar 25 '26

there’s a reason memories don’t hold up in court

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u/SingingNachoCheese Mar 28 '26

Are we just misremembering things and trying to pass it off as a conspiracy instead of just admitting we have fallible memory?

Yes people are stubborn as shit and there's plenty of scientific evidence that memory is fickle