34,000 kg strawberry, 10,000 L cream used in last Wimbledon
In a single edition of Wimbledon, over 30,000 kilograms of strawberry and 10,000 litres of cream is consumed, with 34,000 kg strawberry being consumed at the event last year. Wimbledon has a longstanding British tradition of eating strawberry and cream, which is thought to have begun during the Victorian times. Strawberry is sold at Wimbledon in small boxes called 'punnets'.