Menu jargon you really ate
‘Boy racer’ event organiser on the horror crash that injured 17
DINERS find “trendy” words on restaurant menus a huge turn-off.
The most distrusted terms are foam, which refers to a frothy sauce, and deconstructed – where elements of a dish are presented separately.
The term foraged, items gathered growing wild, is third most hated.
J20 Spritz also found Brits average 84 “how much?” moments a year.
Top of the list for producing gasps at the price are train sandwiches. Aftermath of the collision in Stevenage ALLEGED DRIVER THE organiser of a “boy racer” event where 17 people were injured in a crash described scenes of “carnage”.
Dean Summerbee, 34, who was standing with a crowd of spectators, said: “There was blood everywhere.”
A Nissan 350Z GT allegedly driven by 22-year-old Julian Castano ploughed into a black Toyota GT86.
Dean and a pal had to leap out of the way when the Toyota was shunted up a grass bank and into scores of people. The Nissan hit people standing on the central reservation. The injured – many teenagers – were left strewn across the ground.
Witnesses said the Nissan had reached speeds of 70mph prior to the 10pm crash.
Dean, who helped organise the Cruise Herts event on Thursday, said: “People were laying motionless. It was horrific.”
Dean and Rix Sidhu, 29, held the unlicensed charity event, attended by 400 people, at Roaring Meg retail park in Stevenage. Mindaugas Dambrauskas, 26, passenger in the Toyota driven by Dominic Brown, said: “We travelled for 20 metres, knocking people over like bowling pins.”
Twelve people were taken to hospital but none suffered life-threatening injuries.
Hertfordshire Constabulary will probe how police were “unaware” of the event.
Both drivers have been interviewed but there have been no arrests.