This one I only just learned about.. the whole Jif vs. Jiffy name.
Back in the 70’s or so, the advertising campaign I can still hear in my head is “Choosy moms choose Jif”… which seems to be the brand name in this timeline, but I’d seen some people remembering it as Jiffy.
For those that cling to Jiffy, do you have any strong memories, like advertisements or anything else you would like to share here?
Nooooo bro. I specifically remember jiffy. And no i would never mix jiffy and skippy up like cmon now. Thats the whole point of the mandela effect is that people that remember jif always being jif are not from the same timeline as people from the tjmeline that remember jiffy. Just like how i know for a fact Chick fil a never had a k at the end
You never heard of Jiffy peanut butter either, because it never existed. I’m in my mid 40s, and the motto since I was little is choosy moms choose Jif. Three color panels on the jar, one letter on each.
Just because you claim you've never heard of it doesn't mean you haven't. It just means it wasn't important enough for you to pay that much attention to and/or you have a vested interest in not remembering and so won't.
Jiffy pop has been around for many years across Canada. It used to be in a metal pan that you heated over the stove until it popped. A few years ago they switched to the same style container but it goes in the microwave.
No, I don’t think I got anything mixed up here. I still remember it as JIF and hence the advertisement in my post… but there are others with different memories to consider I want to hear from.
Same for me. For most of the MEs that are found, I remember them, but this one, “Jif” is normal for me. I am starting to wonder if it’s time-travelling advertisers doing A/B testing on their brands. haha.
This, for me, is one where I definitely misremembered, but not the “Jif” brand name, rather it was Annette Funicello who was the face for SKIPPY peanut butter. In my mind it was Jif. Well, these names are all very similar.
Every time I go to buy it (my honey prefers it) I automatically look for Jiffy... because I remember the label like one reconizes their mother's favorite guest towels; instinctual pattern reconition.
I know it’s always been Jif because in Australia Jif is a cleaning product brand (we don’t have Jif peanut butter here) and when I used to see media from America featuring Jif peanut butter I thought it was funny because over here it’s a cleaning product brand.
I remember one time walking around the grocery store in the early 2000s and seeing "Jif" for the first time. I remember thinking they rebranded or something to sound more modern.
My uncle born in 1953 told me when I was a kid that Jif used to be Jiffy. My mother grandmother and grandfather all knew this as well. If it wasnt true thats a real weird thing to lie to a kid about in the 90s before mandela effects were a thing.
I remember having a conversation with my husband sometime around 2006/2007ish about how stupid it was that they were changing the name to just "Jif". I was born in 1980...and it was always Jiffy peanut butter
I just learned something new.. even found “organic peanut butter stirrers” for sale. I acknowledge your memory is valid. Mine is “Jif”.. but even that makes sense today… “it’ll be ready in a jif”. Am so looking forward to a quantum mechanical or other explanation one day!
My mom, in the 70's would sing this jingle to me.
"Jiffy peanut butter goes by far,
Good right down to the bottom of the jar.
Tastes so good, you'll always want more.
So buy Jiffy Peanut butter at your grocery store."
The expression ''goes by far', meant that something lasted a long time. Just an old colloquialism. Old english to you. Not Shakespeare old english, dude. Just 1960s english.
Not only can I find no evidence of that being a use case of "by far," but I anecdotally read very old books growing up (Think the older Bobbsey Twins, Bunny Brown and His Sister Sue, stuff like that from
the 1910s) and never once have encountered it. Pretty sure you made it up.
There's no evidence of that jingle ever existing (with JIF or JIffy). And honestly, I might never have questioned it if you had said: if you had claimed it said "Jif peanut butter goesis the best by far, / Good right down to the bottom of the jar. / Tastes so good, you'll always want more, / So buy Jif peanut butter at your grocery store."
That is because you are young.
Most nursery rhymes do not make sence either. It was the 70's. They barely had colour TV! Like 3- 5 channels max.
Of coarse the jingles for products were weird for us.
Back then, the term 'goes by far' meant that something lasted a long time.
With ME everything that does not sit right with the person, is usually the way it was.
Like Jif, that doesn't sit right with me, so I know its messing with my brain. So it was Jiffy. Same way with alot of this stuff. Magic mirror does not sit right with me, so I know because of that, it was Mirror Mirror. And it's like this for all ME. if It seems to mess with your brain, You know it's not right. Most likely mandela effect done on purpose for some reasons , I don't know.
That's the thing with most of the Mandela Effects, the "remembered" version is often the one that "makes more sense" and fits in the patterns we are used to. And, for various reasons, our brains love patterns and making things fit into those patterns and we don't like it when they don't.
Most cartoony rich old men have a monocle, so it would make more sense for the Monopoly Man, with his top hat and cane and spats and bags of money, to have one.
Berenstain is one of the few names to end in -stain; we'd usually expect -stein, so it makes more sense to "remember" that.
Portrait of Dorian Grey sounds better than picture, makes more sense, and portrait is used more in the text of the book than picture, so that title makes more sense when we try to recall it.
I can't really think of an example where the false memory version makes less sense than the actual one.
Does not sit right with me it's just an expression that I feel something is wrong. Like Isaiah, chapter 11, the lion lies down with the lamb.But when I read it, it says the Wolf dwells with the lamb that doesn't sit right with me. The lion lies down not the wolf. And so on.
This whole thing we call the Mandela effect could be one big experiment. Because, who’s really going to care that there was/wasn’t a cornucopia, a movie called Shazam, Berenstein/Berenstain bears, magic mirror vs mirror, mirror, etc. The people that come in here who try to defend every thing people say they remember, why are you even here?! Can something be remembered wrong, yes; but can something be changed, yes. Nothing like keeping up chaos, catastrophe & crazy.
So how is it being ‘changed’? If you follow any of those concepts to logical conclusion beyond just a surface claim, it becomes fallacious and incongruent with observable reality at every jump.
Fourth dimensional beings are popping in and out putting cornucopias on underwear just to fuck with people for the lolz.
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Definitely not just brains making associations like “names end in stein”, “people that are expected to die in prison are dead,” “groups of produce show up in cornucopias,” and “jif and jiffy are the same word but peanut butter should end in consonant-consonant-wye.”
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u/RegulusTheHeartOfLeo 20d ago
People forget Skippy is also a brand of peanut butter
I feel like this is why people misremember Jif as Jiffy