I wrote a long-ish take about the above video and this phenomena earlier this morning, only to mis-click and lose it all because I, stupidly, did not type nor copy/paste it into a word/notepad document while in progress as experience has taught me to do. In it, I mentioned that upon the mention of Stove Top stuffing, I did a quick search to find that it is now invariably associated with STOUFFER'S Stove Top Stuffing and the Mandela effect, even though the only ad for the product I saw on YT did not actually mention Stouffer's or any other brand parent. To be completely honest, after typing all this and having my disappeared post entirely of my own fault, I fell asleep at my desk in front of the PC, as the above video played, and woke up to what the YT algorithm had led on autoplay, which was a quiz game that had teenagers trying to identify references in Disney and Pixar movies.
I shall not attempt to re-create my original post, but the gist was my distrust of the featured NECS video and a stubbornness to not even look it up further, as I am settling into the belief that most of this Mandela effect is simply evidence of our fallible memories and how easily they are manipulated, and how easily suggestible we are.
That said, after waking up from my brief nap in my desk chair, I put on episode 634 of Stop Podcasting Yourself, an entirely un-serious podcast about nothing in particular which often makes me laugh, and began to re-read this entire thread from page 1. Coincidentally, or perhaps synchronistically, the hosts mention Stove Top stuffing in the first 10 minutes or so, without reference to our Mandela'd brand name. It doesn't change my general take on the topic to date,but it certainly attracted my attention. For the record, my current and established take is that I put a lot more weight on the side of misremembering and suggestion than alternate timelines, and not because I disdain the timeline idea, but because all of the so-called Mandela Effects seem to always be about trivial, pop culture sort of things.
I swear I had more to say earlier, while I was having an active internal mental debate while I wrote it out, but I have not the energy to re-write it all. I will instead summarize it. After re-reading this thread, I saved this quote, which some schlub in a published article from Business Insider actually wrote and which can be referenced back on page 13.
The most famous example of the Mandela Effect is over the Berenstain Bears. A lot of people remember the name being spelled "Berenstein," with an "e," when it's actually spelled "Berenstain" with an "a."
Let us ponder that for some time. The most famous example of "the Mandela Effect" is over the Berenstain Bears, he says. Not over Nelson Mandela, for whom it is named. That pretty much sums up the whole thing, doesn't it?
"When I'm done ranting about elite power that rules the planet under a totalitarian government that uses the media in order to keep people stupid, my throat gets parched. That's why I drink Orange Drink!"