The bizarre reason you've been spelling your childhood favourite cereal wrong all this time

  • Cereal lovers are debating whether 'Froot Loops' has always had that name
  • Some are misremembering the popular children's cereal as 'Fruit Loops' 
  • But this is just a surprising consequence of 'The Mandela Effect'
  • Some even said there was a lawsuit that saw the cereal change its name

By Matilda Rudd For Daily Mail Australia

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Cereal lovers have reignited a debate about whether Froot Loops have always been spelt 'froot' instead of 'fruit', with many swearing there had been a name change since the breakfast option was first served in the 1960s.

Plenty of Australians are of the impression that the rainbow coloured cereal known as 'Froot Loops' is actually spelled 'Fruit Loops', or that it only changed names quite recently.

There were even reports that Kellog's, the creators of Froot Loops, changed the name from Fruit to Froot after a lawsuit settled that because the product doesn't actually contain any fruit, it couldn't bear the same name.

Plenty of Australians are of the impression that the rainbow coloured cereal known as 'Froot Loops' is actually spelled 'Fruit Loops', or that it only changed names quite recently

Plenty of Australians are of the impression that the rainbow coloured cereal known as 'Froot Loops' is actually spelled 'Fruit Loops', or that it only changed names quite recently

There were even reports that Kellog's, the creators of Froot Loops, changed the name from Fruit to Froot after a lawsuit settled that because the product doesn't actually contain any fruit, it couldn't bear the same name

There were even reports that Kellog's, the creators of Froot Loops, changed the name from Fruit to Froot after a lawsuit settled that because the product doesn't actually contain any fruit, it couldn't bear the same name

'I was scratching my head because I wasn't even aware that it's now called 'Froot Loops'. What a ridiculous spelling! I remember it being called 'Fruit Loops',' one misbeliever wrote on Reddit.

'Hang on, when did Fruit Loops change its name?!' Said another.

But bizarrely there was never a name change, nor was there a lawsuit. It's caused by what is commonly known as 'The Mandela Effect'.

The Mandela effect is the strange phenomenon in which many people remember something in a particular way, but are wrong.

THE MANDELA EFFECT:

The Mandela effect is the strange phenomenon in which many people remember something in a particular way, but are wrong. 

The name was created by paranormal enthusiast, Fiona Broome, who was convinced that she remembered Nelson Mandela dying while he was still in prison in the 1980s.

But Mandela's death was not until 2013, despite Ms Broome, alongside many others, recalling seeing his funeral on TV in the 1980s.

While some people believe that this simply shows that memory isn't as stable as we would like to believe, others, including Ms Broome, suggest that we have gone into a parallel universe, or that time travellers have gone into the past and affected our present. 

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The name was created by paranormal enthusiast, Fiona Broome, who was convinced that she remembered Nelson Mandela dying while he was still in prison in the 1980s.

But Mandela's death was not until 2013, despite Ms Broome, alongside many others, recalling seeing his funeral on TV in the 1980s.

On her website, Ms Broome says: 'The "Mandela Effect" is what happens when someone has a clear memory of something that never happened in this reality.

'Many of us - mostly total strangers - remember the exact same events with the exact same details.

'I was scratching my head because I wasn't even aware that it's now called 'Froot Loops'. What a ridiculous spelling! I remember it being called 'Fruit Loops',' one misbeliever wrote on Reddit
But bizarrely there was never a name change, nor was there a lawsuit. It's caused by what is commonly known as 'The Mandela Effect'

'I was scratching my head because I wasn't even aware that it's now called 'Froot Loops'. What a ridiculous spelling! I remember it being called 'Fruit Loops',' one misbeliever wrote on Reddit

'However, our memories are different from what’s in history books, newspaper archives, and so on.'

While some people believe that this simply shows that memory isn't as stable as we would like to believe, others, including Ms Broome, suggest that we have gone into a parallel universe, or that time travellers have gone into the past and affected our present.

Either way, the most interesting thing about the Mandela effect is that so many people appear to share the same false memories.

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