Editing Leicester (section)

===Food and drink===
[[File:Leicester Market 2009.jpg|thumb|[[Leicester Market]]]]
Henry Walker was a successful pork butcher who moved from [[Mansfield]] to Leicester in the 1880s to take over an established business in High Street. The first Walker's crisp production line was in the empty upper storey of Walker's Oxford Street factory in Leicester. In the early days the potatoes were sliced by hand and cooked in an ordinary [[deep fryer]]. In 1971 the [[Walkers (snack foods)|Walker's]] crisps business was sold to [[Standard Brands]], an American firm, who sold on the company to [[Frito-Lay]]. [[Walkers (snack foods)|Walker's]] crisps makes 10&nbsp;million bags of crisps per day at two factories in Beaumont Leys, and is the UK's largest grocery brand.<ref>''[http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk/detail.html?contents_id=7024 Walkers Crisps, Coming to the crunch] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081012063802/http://www.themanufacturer.com/uk/detail.html?contents_id=7024 |date=12 October 2008 }}'' – ''The Manufacturer'', October 2006</ref> The Beaumont Leys manufacturing plant is world's largest crisp factory.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.pepsico.co.uk/our-company/contact-us/our-offices-factories-and-sites |title=Our offices, factories and sites &#124; PepsiCo |date=22 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722191657/http://www.pepsico.co.uk/our-company/contact-us/our-offices-factories-and-sites |access-date=27 June 2022 |archive-date=22 July 2011}}</ref>

Meanwhile, the sausage and pie business was bought out by [[Samworth Brothers]] in 1986. Production outgrew the Cobden Street site and pork pies are now manufactured at a meat processing factory and bakery in Beaumont Leys, coincidentally near to the separately owned crisp factories. Sold under the Walker's name and under UK retailers own brands such as [[Tesco]],<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.samworthbrothers.co.uk/Our-Businesses/Walker-Son |title=Walker & Son |website=Samworth Brothers |access-date=30 March 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170331030931/http://www.samworthbrothers.co.uk/Our-Businesses/Walker-Son |archive-date=31 March 2017 |url-status=dead}}</ref> over three million hot and cold pies are made each week.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Traditional Foods, Territorial Boundaries and the TRIPS Agreement: The Case of the Melton Mowbray Pork Pie |url=https://www.academia.edu/5932483 |journal=The Journal of World Intellectual Property |year=2013 |volume=16 |issue=5–6 |pages=262–301 |publisher=Academia |last1=Rippon |first1=Matthew J. |doi=10.1002/jwip.12016 |s2cid=153781899 |access-date=9 July 2021 |archive-date=2 October 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231002182053/https://www.academia.edu/5932483 |url-status=live }}</ref> Henry Walker's butcher shop at 4–6 Cheapside sold Walker's sausages and pork pies until March 2012 when owner Scottish Fife Fine Foods ceased trading, although the shop was temporarily open and selling Walker's pies for the Christmas season of 2012.<ref>Mack, Tom (15 December 2012); "[http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Temporary-pop-Walkers-pork-pie-shop-open/story-17588041-detail/story.html Temporary pop-up Walkers pork pie shop to open in Cheapside, Leicester, for Christmas] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121217084602/http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Temporary-pop-Walkers-pork-pie-shop-open/story-17588041-detail/story.html |date=17 December 2012 }}, Leicester Mercury, Accessed 17 December 2012.</ref>