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Spanish revelers have pelted each with 113 tons of ripe tomatoes in an annual food fight. Town hall says an estimated 40,000 people took part in the hour of messy fun in the village of Bunol near Valencia. The ritual dates back to the 1940s.
Some warriors in Wednesday's battle wore swimming goggles to protect themselves from the acid sting of projectiles in the form of pear-shaped tomatoes. Others swatted them away with tennis rackets.
Afterward, many washed off in a nearby river while crews hosed down a town painted red.
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{"commentId":2609270,"authorDomain":"kingmarty"}
Spain: Giving the middle finger to starving people every where.
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#1 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 1:54 PM EDT{"commentId":2609757,"authorDomain":"dwemmy"}
I suppose that's a valid point; labor, trucking and marketing costs notwithstanding. Perhaps next year they good do a "green" tomato fight; not with green tomatoes, but use rotten and badly bruised toms only and then take the waste to a compost site.
Food fights have been going on a long time; I'm not a scholarly historian on said subject. But I do know it looks like a heck of a lot of fun.
Yeah- swimming goggles would be a must.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2609883,"authorDomain":"kingmarty"}
When there are conflicts in other countries over food, I think it's time to revisit the idea of food fights. It's not a high school cafeteria.
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{"commentId":2610095,"authorDomain":"pmags"}
See comment #6 below.
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{"commentId":2609422,"authorDomain":"pmags"}
Food Fight! Duck! Monkey! Monkey! Monkey! Duck!
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#2 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:01 PM EDT{"commentId":2609471,"authorDomain":"dwemmy"}
I saw a clip of it on TV last year. That looks like a total blast! I know I would come away from that laughing my @$$ off and in a great mood. For 40,000 revelers it's relatively (for the town) cheap, good fun.
While the running of the bulls- I understand it has a long tradition. But like the bullfight itself- I just don't get it.
Having been in 36 countries I have to say Spain remains my favorite :o)
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- 3 votes
#3 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:03 PM EDT{"commentId":2609518,"authorDomain":"douglasq"}
Tomatoes are one thing but I would run if I saw the people from the one photo who were armed with watermelons.
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- 3 votes
#4 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:06 PM EDT{"commentId":2611301,"authorDomain":"TheVerbalistx"}
I think they were wearing them as helmets?
That is, at least, what it looks like to me.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2609618,"authorDomain":"SuchaBastard"}
With all the hunger in this world...
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- 1 vote
#5 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:12 PM EDT{"commentId":2611382,"authorDomain":"philipe"}
"With all the hunger in this world... "
Let them drink ethanol.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":2609735,"authorDomain":"mmmille4"}
Ahhh! Reminds me of a great childhood memory. One year, after a hard frost, all of the kids in my neighborhood thought that it would be great fun to throw all of the spoiled garden produce at each other (I lived in a small town, and there was little to keep us entertained.) This was back in the sixties before kids were sheltered from germs, or wore goggles and helmets, and a direct hit really HURT! Long story short, by the time we ran out of ammunition, every house on the block was splattered with rotten tomatoes, squash and mud clods. We spent the rest of the day washing down houses, but, it was worth it. And before you get your underwear in another knot, kingmarty, the produce was SPOILED. :)
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#6 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:18 PM EDT{"commentId":2609832,"authorDomain":"pmags"}
Splat! Gotcha Kathy! *running away really fast...*
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{"commentId":2610149,"authorDomain":"kingmarty"}
spoiled food is fine with me. we used to throw crab apples at each other.
the difference between spoiled food and 113 tons of produce though are significantly different.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2610236,"authorDomain":"pmags"}
It's Spain. It's entirely possible to have that many spoiled, overripe tomatos. Throwing a tomato ready for market or canning is dangerous because they're firm. Spoiled tomatos shatter on impact.
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{"commentId":2610392,"authorDomain":"mmmille4"}
I agree with you, kingmarty. I was just playing with ya. Sorry.
And, damn, those crabapples really DO hurt!
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{"commentId":2610110,"authorDomain":"thomas-utt"}
When I see such things like this, bullfighting, ECT.... All in the name of what some might consider fun and everything else mankind does that don't make any sense in a rational persons mind. I think to myself that human kind deserves to die by there own hands. Disgusting and destructive creature's humanity is. And yet we consider our self's the intelligent species of evolution, or by a divine creator made in his own image.... A plague to the earth is all we are!
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#7 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:42 PM EDT{"commentId":2610117,"authorDomain":"thomas-utt"}
When I see such things like this, bullfighting, ECT.... All in the name of what some might consider fun and everything else mankind does that don't make any sense in a rational persons mind. I think to myself that human kind deserves to die by there own hands. Disgusting and destructive creature's humanity is. And yet we consider our self's the intelligent species of evolution or by a divine creator made in his own image.... A plague to the earth is all we are!
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- 1 vote
#8 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:42 PM EDT{"commentId":2610124,"authorDomain":"roan"}
A 113 tons of ripe tomatoes is:
226,000 lbs
107 tons water
4 tons carbohydrate
902 kg protein
205 kg fat
However:
According to a study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, we waste 96 billion pounds of food in America each year. That turns out to be:
* 263,013,699 pounds of food wasted each day * 10,958,904 pounds wasted each hour * 182,648 pounds wasted each minute * 3,044 pounds of food wasted in America each second.
Source: Wasted Food, Wasted Diets, Fair Foods Inc.
So don't be so hasty at casting disparaging comments at one Spanish town when the US continually wastes more food every 75 seconds than they do 1 hour each year.
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- 2 votes
#9 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 2:43 PM EDT{"commentId":2610467,"authorDomain":"MRZK"}
Hmmm...two wrongs make a right.
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{"commentId":2610927,"authorDomain":"dwemmy"}
No, let's balance a moment in time that results in a large group of people having a fantastically pleasurable experience (something wrong with pleasure?) versus one day's waste of the McDonald's Machina Dolita (lit. sorrowful industrial engine). 'kay?
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{"commentId":2611058,"authorDomain":"Zoilus"}
I wonder if anyone noticed that those tomato's are watermelons?
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- 1 vote
#10 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 3:39 PM EDT{"commentId":2611723,"authorDomain":"justinpm"}
Not really sure why the melons are there, but the dude in center frame is about to wing a tomato at some unsuspecting individual. I myself about two months ago got in a huge water fight and got some seriously nasty shots to the head (maybe that explains some of my comments). One of the folks in the fight actually filled the balloons with jelly. First time I'd ever seen that.
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{"commentId":2611789,"authorDomain":"Zoilus"}
It looks like a piece of watermelon to me...
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2611848,"authorDomain":"justinpm"}
Upon further review it totally could be a piece of watermelon. Huh.
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{"commentId":2612069,"authorDomain":"philipe"}
JustinPM
Heh, jelly. Try putting Metamucil in a water balloon. Nasty.
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2612206,"authorDomain":"justinpm"}
AHHH! That has got to be against the Geneva conventions!
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- 1 vote
{"commentId":2612628,"authorDomain":"hotlink"}
Such a war like society.
As for starving people... they should eat more.
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#11 - Wed Aug 27, 2008 5:27 PM EDT{"commentId":2626288,"authorDomain":"justinpm"}
Eat more starving people?
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{"commentId":2624366,"authorDomain":"lass"}
Can't people just have fun anymore? Does everything we do have to be for some other cause?
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- 2 votes
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