A man has been left devastated by his bad luck after accidentally eating a crisp that would have changed his life.
Cory, 26, from Cardiff, Wales was enjoying a bag of Walkers cheese and onion crisps when he made a startling discovery.
The foodie found a heart-shaped crisp that could have been worth £100,000. But, in a shocking twist, he ate the potato snack before realising just how much it was worth.
To add insult to injury, he recorded his mistake on camera and shared the clip to TikTok before noticing his error.
The content creator who posts on TikTok as @corysworldd was recording a video titled 'what I eat in a day', when he came across the famed crisp.
Unluckily, as he tucked into his Walkers, Cory didn't notice that the packet explained that Walkers are currently offering £100,000 to one lucky winner who finds the best heart-shaped crisp in their packet of crisps.
But eagle-eyed viewers were quick to point out the shape of the crisp and sadly informed Cory that he'd chowed down on a £100k crisp.
"It actually took me around six days to realise what I'd done," explained Cory, who did not realise his costly error until he watched the clip back with his girlfriend, Lea, who said "that crisp could have changed our life."
"We saw the crisp so we screenshotted it, cropped it and flipped it around - and low and behold it was the heart-shaped crisp. At the time my, girlfriend had a packet of walkers with her so we did a comparison and that's when it hit me that I'd just eaten the £100k prize," Cory recalls.
"We were both so shocked and burst into laughter, Lea then phoned her dad to explain and he didn't believe that I'd done it. Most people had the same reaction and didn't believe me until I showed them the video and then they all burst into laughter.
"My family said that you just couldn't write it and that it was so typical of me. This could definitely only happen to me."
Fortunately, Cory is still in good spirits and has managed to find the light-hearted side of the story.
"I wasn't even angry or anything like that, just so shocked. I can't believe it happened and that I even caught it on camera," he explained. "I told people at work and they said they didn't believe me either until I showed them the video. It's a good job I do my 'what I eat in a day' videos so that I could prove it."
The crisp lover added: "If I'd have won I'd have probably gone on holiday, maybe renovated my house and definitely donated some to charity.
"I can't help but laugh about it and I think everyone who watched the video got a good laugh out of it too!"
A Walkers spokesperson said: "Such a shame that Cory has eaten that crisp! We do need to be fair to all the other Walkers fans that have followed our competition T&Cs and held onto their crisp for safekeeping, so I'm afraid we won't be able to accept his entry this time round.
There's still time if he wants to enter!"
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