Have you experienced the Mandela Effect?

[Jophiel]

I previously posted this in the “Obvious things about creative works” thread in CS:

Earlier today, I was about to compare someone who was game for anything with Mikey from the Life cereal commercials. As I remembered it in my head, “he’ll eat anything”.

Then I thought, “That can’t be right. Why would Mikey’s brothers have been so incredulous that he liked Life cereal if the kid was a human garbage dump?” But I could have sworn that was the line.

So I looked it up online and, sure enough, it’s “He hates everything” – the diametric opposite of how I remembered it. But, funny thing is, if you Google the line “he’ll eat anything”, it’s all about people remembering Mikey from the Life cereal commercials. Either people (mis)quoting the line or a few columns where someone realizes that they remembered the line wrong. A zillion people all thinking that Mikey was the kid who “he’ll eat anything”.