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This woman is determined to bring back ready salted Chipsticks – and you can help

Gill just wants her favourite snack back (Pictures: Gill WInestone/Amazon)

Gill Winestone has had one thing on her mind for the last five years. The long overdue return of ready salted Chipsticks.

You know Chipsticks – those crunchy, rectangle-shaped crisps that vaguely resemble French fries – and currently you can only get them in salt and vinegar flavour.

But Gill is determined to return to the glorious days when ready salted Chipsticks were also an option – and shes willing to go the distance to make her dream a reality.

After starting a blog dedicated to ready salted Chipsticks – or as she calls them, the best crisps in the world – in 2016, she then launched a petition and has sent multiple emails and Tweets to Walkers and a variety of supermarkets.

Gills blog is a combination of a plan of attack to reinstate her beloved snack, and fond memories about happier times when she could go to her local supermarket and still see her favourite crisps on the shelves.

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Any time that I was in the vicinity of a Co-op, I would pop in and buy somewhere between three and fifteen bags of ready salted Chipsticks, wrote Gillian in one blog post.

This was just before a movie night at a friends flat, so when I walked in with my tasty snacks (ten bags this time), they mistakenly thought that I had brought a bag for everyone.

The Chipsticks petition
Matt Lucas recently signed the petition (Picture: Change.org)

I stopped mid-step, hesitated; I was wondering how to politely refute this, whist still being able to keep all my ready salted Chipsticks.

Gills desperation is intensified by the fact that there arent any alternatives that remotely taste like the originals – they were a one-of-a-kind.

She hopes that by drumming up enough public support she can convince Walkers to start making them again.

Walkers have said its a lack of demand that meant they were discontinued so hopefully this petition will show them there is demand and that they should reinstate them, Gill tells Metro.co.uk.

I started the petition about three years ago.

It was quite a slow burner to start with, but it has really picked up in the last year or so and now were at more than 3,000 signatures.

Recently it has gone up again with Matt Lucas signing and retweeting the link. Its been a really great thing to get his support.

Had a dream last night that @walkers_crisps started doing #readysaltedchipsticks again. They tasted so good! I was so sad when I woke up! ?

— Gill Winestone (@GWinestone) April 15, 2016

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But what is it about Chipsticks in particular that Gill cant get enough of? And why cant she just be content with the salt and vinegar option?

Ive always loved them, explains Gill.

I dont like vinegar flavoured ones, so theres no other option for me. Honestly there is no other readily available alternative out there.

Its hard to pin down what makes your favourite of anything, but taste, texture, and the general yumminess of them. I do miss them so much!

Gill isnt alone in her crusade.

The Chipstick community is strong and building momentum.

There are a few avid fans and communities out there, says Gill.

Someone started a Facebook page before I did and there are tonnes of people on twitter who keepRead More – Source

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