Wimbledon's famous Kent strawberries now served mushed

London

THERE'S a new way to ingest strawberries at Wimbledon this year, but the public isn't invited and the famous berries from the nearby English county of Kent aren't eaten with a spoon and don't come with cream either.

They are being blended to bits in a special type of "smoothie". To keep up with the ever more arcane dietary demands of professional tennis players, the Wimbledon catering service, which sells 28 tonnes of Kent strawberries doused in 7,000 litres of Devon cream every championship, this year installed Nutribullet food "extractors" in the players' restaurant. "It was something we'd seen was becoming popular in Britain and so we thought we should be offering it," said Jonathan Parker, Wimbledon's director of catering.