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So far John has been unable to recreate the magic – or the money – he found with Real Crisps. Yet the ebullient pensioner is far from bitter. “I don’t regret anything," he said matter-of-factly. "I’ve lived like a millionaire for a decade and now I’m just living an ordinary life." To make easy oven baked Parmesan crisps you basically just need shredded Parmesan cheese! How easy is that? We had to expand but we didn’t have the money," said John. "We’d only been going for around 18 months and the banks wouldn’t advance the amount we needed. It was getting to the stage we were going to have to shut down."verifying the identity of any individual who requests access to information prior to granting them access to information; As a boy John can also remember trips to the swimming baths at Cold Knap in Barry and being treated to a cup of hot Oxo to warm up afterwards. It was this nostalgia for bygone times that led him to create what would become the best-selling crisp for Real Crisps – Roast Ox.

Where we possess appropriate information about you on file, we will attempt to verify your identity using that information. He offered to take on the Newport factory and its 100-odd employees and trial a hand-cooked crisp product but the Bensons bosses refused. Undeterred, John doggedly continued to throw everything into working out how to bring hand-cooked crisps to the Welsh market. The house in Camaiore in Tuscany, bought just as the 2008 recession bit hard, cost him nearly a quarter of it. And ever the businessman, even in retirement, he’s ploughed a significant chunk of it into a couple of failed ventures.Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests (Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation). Put the flour, cubed butter or lard and salt in a food processor, and blitz for 10 seconds. Add three tablespoons of cold water and mix until the dough forms a ball. Wrap in paper or a beeswax wrap and chill for an hour in the fridge. (The pastry can be made by hand, too, but with the butter at room temperature: rub it into the flour until the mix resembles breadcrumbs. Add three tablespoons of cold water, then form the dough into a ball and chill as above.) In accordance with Article 77 of the General Data Protection Regulation, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or of an alleged infringement of the General Data Protection Regulation. Further information on your rights in relation to your personal data as an individual

He left school at 15 to work as a porter in a fruit market and then as a delivery driver for a bakery. He discovered a flair for salesmanship and got a job selling sausages and cakes from a van. Aged 28 he joined Smiths Crisps as a salesman and was encouraged to work his way up the company. "That was where I built my career," he said. You have the following rights in relation to your information, which you may exercise in the same way as you may exercise by writing to the data controller using the details provided at the top of this policy. With the money sorted John needed a name for his burgeoning crisp company. Sat at the kitchen table he threw words around until he suddenly thought of his two daughters – Rebecca and Rachel – and rearranged the letters to come up with Real. It was perfect, he realised almost immediately – he’d unwittingly created a “latch-lifter” for his sales pitches, he said with a mischievous grin. We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure your information and to protect it against unauthorised or unlawful use and accidental loss or destruction, including:Drop the shredded Parmesan by 1 tablespoonful mounds onto the baking sheet. Make sure to leave a couple inches of space between each cheese mound.