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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?
Its almost as if these companies keep altering their logos because that would be insane.
Found some more pixels
You’re a hero. Now I can be upset about Frebreeze too.
If you’re of a certain age, you can’t get Oscar Mayer wrong.
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. Oscar Mayer has a way with B-O-L-O-G-N-A
100%, this wasn’t one I remembered differently.
nope, Fruit of the loom got me, i had seen the monopoly and curious george ones had no tail, but they knocked me for a loop a decade ago, Looney Toons was kind of shadowy in my mind, toones makes more sense, but the “merry melodies” moniker muddled the water, we brain cells. I always called the bears by what sounds like the first one, but i always knew it wasn’t spelled that way, i remmeber reading the books when I was young and my parents corrected the pronoinciation on me. I went with it because … ‘english’ but i always knew it wasn’t spelled like we said it, we don’t genrally promounce february and wednesday very well so who was 5 year old me to argue with an adult that would smack my ass for being argumentative. :)
The Pikachu one might been an influence from the Pichu design.
Its actually just due to old Pokemon cards and early merch. Early pokemon merch and card art were not accurate to the game.
It was proven that both designs of Pikachu were used back in the 90s. Along with a few other designs that people have just forgotten about.
Pokemon where not nearly as fixed in design back in the 90s as they are today.
Nah, the bootleg merch we got in the post-Soviet countries had the black tail tip long before Pichu was a thing.
…or DID it…?
Looney “Toons” is the stupidest one.
It was always a pun on toons by spelling it “Tunes” and because music is extremely prominent for it.
Disney had cartoon shorts were called “Silly Symphonies.” Not sure which came first, but one is a play on the other.
Especially in the early ones; they were basically ads to sell music from the Warner music catalog.
i assume febreeze went through a formula change and it sucks now, likely cheapflation?
I give up, what’s the difference between the two Chick-fil-A?
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.
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Wait until people watch old shows from the 90s set in NYC, and there’s these two buildings in the skyline. But when you go to NYC, those buildings DON’T EVEN EXIST!!!
Isn’t Jiffy a brand of quickbake mixes? In the little blue boxes
Yes, Jiffy is a very popular and inexpensive brand of corn bread mix, in groceries all over down here.
pro-tip: putting image URLs in your comment like this:
makes the image show up in your comment rather than just the URLI 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.
This one is a brand of peanut butter, I believe.
Missed opportunity for fruit of the loin
Ah yes, the Minglebingle Effect
That’s Mandella, you’re thinking of the bounty hunter that hangs with grogu
That’s Mandalorian. You’re thinking about the band that backed up Mike when he sang the 1980s hit song “All I need is a miracle”
That’s the Mechanics. You’re thinking about a tomato based sauce with herbs
That’s marinara. You’re thinking of the Canadian province to the west of Ontario.
That’s Manitoba. You’re thinking of a person who is not loyal to their own country or political party because they are under the control or influence of another country or party.
That’s manchurian. Your thinking of the largest, strongest and only movable bone in the human face.
That’s mandible. You’re thinking of a two player board game where people take turns moving beads around small holes to capture one another’s pieces.
That’s mandible. You’re thinking of the chains that go around the hands and feet of prisoners.
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
It’s Berenstien.
And Nelson Muntz is still President of South Africa?
Ha, ha!
How exactly did you access our parent universe? If you say you used AI i’m leaving.
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!?
