Photo of the Day: La Tomatina, the Annual Tomato Throwing Festival in Spain
[Reuters]
The famous La Tomatina festival, a tradition held on the last Wednesday of every August since the mid-1940s, took place today in Bunol, Spain. The epic tomato-launching battle all starts with truckloads of rotten red tomatoes and people prepared in bathing suits and goggles. Catapulting, chucking, and all forms of splattering ensues until 100 tons of tomato guts covers the small town.
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4 Comments:
That looks like a screen cap from a Quentin Tarantino movie.
hungryinstlouis at 6:10PM on 08/26/09
LOL! It's like being one of the meatballs in a giant pasta sauce!
jmoret at 9:35PM on 08/26/09
This particularly disheartening considering our almost tomatoless summer here on the east coast :(
simon at 9:46PM on 08/26/09
So....do they clean this up by hosing the streets down, or do they just kinda leave it to bake in the sun? I imagine it would stop smelling so nice and tomato-ey after a few days...
hungryhungryhippo at 11:33PM on 08/26/09