Not even Pringles are safe from the Mandela Effect. For those who may not know, the Mandela Effect is a phenomenon in which many people worldwide share the same false memory. For example, lots of people believe that the Monopoly man has a molecule (he doesn’t), or that Kit Kat is written Kit-Kat. Well, people are now insisting that Pringles’ Sour Cream and Onion flavored chips used to be called Sour Cream and Chives.
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Social media users have taken to the internet to debate this crucially important topic. One Reddit user wrote, “None of my friends believe the flavor was every [sic] called ‘Sour cream and Chive’. It’s now called ‘Sour cream and Onion’ Pringles. I thought I could easily disprove it by doing a Google image search but nothing…now it’s 3 am and I look like a confused fool. I’m starting to doubt myself.” Meanwhile, someone on TikTok said, “Am I going insane or did these used to be called ‘Sour Cream and Chive’ […] I was eating them and I didn’t pay much attention to the packaging and I was like, ‘These taste different.’ And that’s when I looked at the pot. ‘Sour Cream and Onion’ I swear these were ‘Sour Cream and Chive’ when I was younger and they used to have green flakes on them.”
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Luckily, one hero reached out to Pringles directly to resolve this debate. As it turns out, those with memories of Sour Cream and Chives aren’t crazy or visiting from a parallel dimension. Pringles clarified that they did sell that flavor for a short period of time but have since turned it into Sour Cream and Onion. Case closed!