'My love for side dishes inspired possible new crisp flavour'

Becky Dibble is used to being surrounded by food.

When she is not at her waitressing job at a cafe in Oswestry, Shropshire, the 26-year-old is cooking at home, experimenting with different ideas for side dishes.

Her time and effort has paid off as later this year, a flavour she dreamed up will travel far further than her partner's tastebuds.

Her idea of grilled cheese and chilli jam flavoured crisps will be sold on shop and supermarket shelves across the country, as part of a national competition.

The flavour with the most sales wins - with her flavour facing off against salt and pepper chicken.

"I've always been a bit of a snacker, I'd say I'm more of a savoury person - so I've always reached for crisps, I think from childhood as well," she said.

"I'm quite a creative person and I've always been into entering competitions, so I thought I'd just give it a go.

"I spent hours coming up with different ideas, designing the crisp packets, and then I threw the video together in the end with my son on my knee."

After taking the video down because she thought it "wouldn't go anywhere", she said she was encouraged to re-upload it by her partner and her mum.

As part of her entry, she used her love of side dishes to create an entire range of flavour ideas.

"Whenever I go out to cafes and restaurants, I'm always ordering different side dishes," she said.

"Some of the other flavours I did were onion rings... with sour cream, another one was calamari with siracha mayo... buffalo wings and blue cheese.

"I just became obsessed with creating different ideas."

The idea that impressed judges most, grilled cheese and chilli jam, has always been a favourite of hers.

"I'm always ordering it when I'm out and about," she said, adding she had not needed to try it out in her own kitchen because she ate it so much in restaurants.

Thousands of people entered ideas for the competition, run by Walkers Crisps.

Judges whittled them down to a final six and then influencers took on game show-style taste challenges until the final two flavours were left.

"The next stage is for the crisps to be sold on the supermarket shelves from September to November," she said.

She added her family were "really excited" to see her crisps on shelves, and they would be buying.

"It'll be really surreal, it still doesn't feel real to be honest," she told the BBC.

"The cafe that I work in, they're going to sell them as well, my boss has been really supportive."

Dibble has even taken to dressing like a chilli to promote her flavour.

"I think it's going to become a regular thing to be honest," she said.

"I'll go round all the local areas dressed as a chilli, getting people to try the flavour when it's out.

"I'll probably be known as the crisp girl for a while."

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