{"id":7615,"date":"2013-09-18T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T15:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=7615"},"modified":"2013-09-20T13:44:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T20:44:59","slug":"camosun-college-alumnus-jill-munro-finalist-in-national-lays-potato-chip-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2013\/09\/18\/camosun-college-alumnus-jill-munro-finalist-in-national-lays-potato-chip-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Camosun College alumnus Jill Munro finalist in national Lay’s potato chip challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jill Munro spent 2000 to 2009 as a Camosun student, going from biology to recreation leadership to tourism to business to, finally, marketing, which she got a degree in. Today, she works for BC Hydro and lives in Vancouver, where she loves Caesar salad to no end. And that love has now got her national attention.<\/p>\n

Munro is one of four finalists in a Canada-wide contest held by potato chip biggies Lay\u2019s, who asked Canadians to send in their chip flavour ideas. She entered her idea, Creamy Garlic Caesar, along with 630,000 other entrants.<\/p>\n

Munro\u2019s idea got selected by Lay\u2019s to be one of four that they actually made; it\u2019s available in stores now. (The other flavours in the competition are Perogy Platter, Maple Moose, and Grilled Cheese & Ketchup.) Canadians will then decide on the one chip that they like best through an online voting process.<\/p>\n

\u201cCaesar was my go-to meal, all the time,\u201d says Munro. \u201cYou know when you get off work and you\u2019re thinking, \u2018What am I going to have for dinner?\u2019 It was always Caesar salad. I buy in bulk. I have a lot of lettuce, salad dressing, croutons\u2026 parmesan cheese, I buy the big wedge. One of my roommates, who I actually met at Camosun, we would eat a huge bowl of Caesar salad together; like, I mean a giant bowl that you\u2019d bring to a barbecue, we\u2019d each have one of those every day of the week. We had a supreme Caesar salad problem. But it was awesome. We loved it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun alumnus Jill Munro and her Lay\u2019s chip flavour (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And she loves how Lay\u2019s took her idea and made it into reality. After all, the gap between what a chip flavour is like in its creator\u2019s head and what it actually tastes like when it\u2019s produced can be huge. But Munro says that Lay\u2019s nailed it.<\/p>\n

She first tried the chip in Toronto when Lay\u2019s flew her out there to meet the other contestants; there was a welcome package waiting for her at her hotel, and on top was a bag of her chips, the first time she had seen them.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think they exceeded my expectations,\u201d she says about how Lay\u2019s made the chips taste. \u201cYou don\u2019t know what you\u2019re in for. I didn\u2019t have a lot of huge expectations, I just hoped it would be delicious and that people would like it. And I think they\u2019ve done that for sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun\u2019s Joan Yates taught Munro three marketing courses during her time here. She\u2019s backing Munro and doesn\u2019t seem shocked that this is happening to her former student.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have tried her chips and I think she\u2019s a winner,\u201d says Yates. \u201cAfter all, who wants to eat moose? Jill was, and is, a creative and an engaged student.\u00a0I had a lot of fun with her in class and seeing her on a billboard doesn\u2019t surprise me in the slightest. I think her creativity was\u00a0well utilized in marketing classes and am cheering her on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Camosun business instructor Tom Rippon also taught Munro. He, as well, has nothing but glowing praise for her.<\/p>\n

\u201cJill was an absolutely wonderful student while at Camosun\u2014motivated, energetic, and engaging,\u201d says Rippon. \u201cToday, Jill is the quintessential alumnus.\u201d<\/p>\n

Munro is modest but confident and says she \u201chopes\u201d she has a good chance of winning the competition.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m kind of nervous, and excited,\u201d she says. \u201cI know there\u2019s a bit of a barrier between salad and chips, but everyone who\u2019s tried them has been really positive about how they taste, and they really like them. So I\u2019m hoping Canadians will try them and vote for their favourite.\u201d<\/p>\n

The winner of the competition is decided by the voting public (see lays.ca for more information on voting, which ends on October 16).<\/p>\n

The person who comes out on top gets $50,000 and one percent of all future sales of their chip flavour, which will get added to Lay\u2019s roster of chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jill Munro spent 2000 to 2009 as a Camosun student, going from biology to recreation leadership to tourism to business to, finally, marketing, which she got a degree in. Today, she works for BC Hydro and lives in Vancouver, where she loves Caesar salad to no end. And that love has now got her national […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7616,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-september-18-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7615"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7696,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7615\/revisions\/7696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}