r/Retconned • u/rajalove09 • 10d ago

Mandela Effect

What’s the point of that sub? It’s like no one there believes in it. No one ever gets to talk about Mandela Effects.

I will die on the hill that it was BerenSTEIN Bears. I could read very young, and while my mom was grocery shopping, I’d read from the book stand. It was the 80s in a small town, in a small store, so I was ok being alone while my mom shopped. I remember wondering how to pronounce it. Why do I have that memory if it never was spelled that way?!

That’s my biggest one I just can’t get over. I also remember riding in the car with my mom and asking what does “objects in mirror MAY BE closer than they appear” meant.

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u/edwardslair 9d ago

This is my Mandela effect.

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u/Brief_Molasses_3752 9d ago

My old reality was "Chic" lol

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u/Merpadurp 9d ago

I remember it being Chic-Fil-A very specifically lol

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u/Brief_Molasses_3752 9d ago

Same. I had to program the word into my Motorola Q, or it would autocorrect to "Chick", which WASN'T the name of the restaurant.

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u/Merpadurp 8d ago

EXACTLY.

I remember that I just started abbreviating it as “CFA” because i was tired of fighting the autocorrect.

~2017, I was in College so I was eating a lot of CFA at the food court

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u/edwardslair 8d ago

I asked my gf how she remembered and she said chic, but was like maybe she remembered wrong, I told her no, bunch of people remember it that way too.

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u/CyriusGaming 7d ago

same wtf