You can now apply to be a professional crisp eater
Cheese and onion, salt and vinegar, prawn cocktail – whichever is your favourite crisp flavour, one thing’s for sure: you’ll make any excuse to eat them.
Well, excuse yourself no more, because now there’s a way to eat crisps all day and actually get paid for it.
Walkers are after someone who will essentially eat loads of crisps for them.
PepsiCo UK – which owns the crisps brand – needs a part-time food taster to sample a variety of crisps and drinks in Leicester.
If you’re very opinionated on the matter of crisps, even better – after eating the said snacks, you’ll give the company your feedback.
It pays £8.51 an hour, but unfortunately the job criteria isn’t only ‘must enjoy delicious crisps’.
You need communication skills, as well as a knack with computers.
Those with food intolerances need not apply, apparently (ouch), and you can’t be a smoker (presumably it’d get in the way of testing the ‘smoky bacon’ flavours).
Krystina Mason, who’s been one of the brand’s ‘super tasters’ for years (yes, seriously) told the Leicester Mercury that a big part of the job is keeping your taste buds clean.
“On a day-to-day basis we have to make sure our palates are clean – I like to drink lemon water,” she said.
“We are not allowed to drink tea or coffee because it will interfere with the palate. We have to have 20 minute breaks between tests, where we will eat fruit so we know our taste buds are cleansed.”
Being a professional crisp eater isn’t such a walk in the park after all – but we reckon it’d be worth it.
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