Confused Pringles Fans Are Wondering if Sour Cream and Chives Flavor Ever Even Existed

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.

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.”

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!