hypothetical sentences in the future (nonstandard?/Irish?)

Hi,

Here is a quote from an interview with a model

_Interviewer: If you could create your own chocolates, what would you call them?
Model: Delicious Dudleys and then there was like caramel._

The model talks about a hypothetical situation in the future. In 'textbook English' the sentence would go more like this:
"... and there would be like caramel"

Why does he say 'was'? Is it colloquial or dialectal maybe?(the speaker is Irish)

here's the link to the interview 1.55 1.55