AN OSWESTRY mum-of-two unknowingly ate a heart-shaped Walkers crisp that could have won her £100,000.
The day after Valentine's Day, Dawn Sagar, a supermarket worker, was on her lunch break when she picked up a bag of ready salted Walkers from the canteen.
As she was talking to her co-workers and eating the crisps, Dawn noticed that one of them was in the shape of a heart.
Dawn, 40, recalled: "At first I wasn't bothered or paid attention to what I was eating.
"I didn't really realise what was going on, until I looked down and I saw the crisp was in the shape of a heart.
"So I took a picture of it and I sent it on Snapchat to everybody, as it was the day after Valentine's Day."
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After she sent the image to her friends, she received several excited messages hailing her discovery - but continued to munch on her snack, oblivious to the significance of her find.
"I didn't know what they were on about," Dawn continued.
"So I just carried on eating."
She carried on with her day, finishing her lunch break, before asking her friend why people had been so excited about her crisp.
"My friend said 'you didn't eat it did you' and I said yeah," the mum-of-two added.
Dawn then went back to the canteen, found the packaging, read the rules which stated that if found the crisp should not be eaten.
She didn't contact Walkers, deciding that because she had already eaten the prize-winning potato crisp that there would be little point in arguing her case.
"I am sure Walkers will know by now, it's literally everywhere," she said.
"But about the money, I didn't know about them at the time, so it doesn't make a difference now, what's done is done."
Dawn is now urging all her custmers to keep an eye out for the heart shaped crisp, as the competition is still on.
"Now, I tell all my customers to look out for it, but also I have to keep an eye out for all these different prizes now," she said.
Walkers announced their competition at the beginning of February, and it is set to end on March 20,2023, so crisps-lovers still have time to hunt for that perfect heart.
For more on the competition you can visit https://www.competition.walkers.co.uk/heart_shaped_crisp_hunt
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