Recently we have had a wave of support in the campaign to bring back Ready Salted Chipsticks. As my more dedicated readers will know (I know you’re out there – you’re just shy), I have a personal mission to make sure that “the cause” is taken up, leading me to start a change.org petition (sign if you haven’t already… https://www.change.org/p/walkers-crisps-bring-back-ready-salted-chipsticks-2) as well as spend a fair amount of time trawling through twitter to find relevant Ready Salted Chipsticks tweets and share them with @Walkers_Crisps and the world in general.
In the last two months we’ve had a few of wins on this front. Firstly, Matt Lucas, the comedian, actor, writer and singer, and now my personal favourite of all of these things, signed our petition and shared it on twitter. What a great guy!
Following this the Sun newspaper (not my paper of choice, but they’ve given us publicity, so I will put aside my rant at their more dubious publishing decisions for now) decided to write an article about the petition and our recent flurry of uptake following Matt’s involvement. So, for that, thanks the Sun. https://www.thesun.co.uk/money/8720439/thousands-demand-return-ready-salted-chipsticks-petition/
And finally, Metro.co.uk, the online version of the free paper you get on the bus, decided to do a piece about the petition and my personal mission to Bring Back Read Salted Chipsticks. Nothing at all to do with my very good friend who works there finally taking pity on me and pitching the story of course. But a great little piece and one that further promotes the campaign.
https://metro.co.uk/2019/06/05/woman-determined-bring-back-ready-salted-chipsticks-can-help-9822888/
I know you’ll be very pleased to hear at the time of writing we were up to 3685 signatures.
Now with this flurry of activity I have the faintest of faint hopes that we’ll get what we want, and that Walkers will finally listen and reinstate Ready Salted Chipsticks to their full glory. It’s hard not to hope but sadly as the last few years have taught me, I think I should be realistic that Walkers ears are firmly closed. Still, with your help perhaps we can keep this momentum going and get to a place where it does become a reality rather than a dream. Onward Ready Salted Chipsticksfriends!
