Walkers

Walkers is a snack food manufacturer in the United Kingdom best known for manufacturing crisps.

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In the 1880s Henry Walker moved from Mansfield to Leicester to take over an established butcher's shop in the high street. Meat rationing after World War II saw the factory output drop dramatically and the company looked at alternatives to make use of the wasted capacity. With potato crisps being increasingly popular with the public, managing director R.E. Gerrard helped the company shift focus and began hand-slicing and frying potatoes.

Snack food: A snack food is seen in Western culture as a type of food not meant to be eaten as a main meal of the day (breakfast, lunch, supper). Rather, the food is intended as a snack: something to temporarily tide a person's hunger, provide a brief supply of energy for the body, or something to be eaten for...

Crisps: Crisps are a potato product popular in the UK and Ireland, referred to in the United States as potato chips....

Mansfield: :This page is about the town of Mansfield in England. For other places or persons named Mansfield, see Mansfield (disambiguation)....

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