SPANISH TOMATO FESTIVAL IS ONE FOR THE PUREE-ISTS
EVERY year on the last Wednesday of August, thousands of people visit Bunol, Spain, for the Tomatina – billed as the world’s biggest food fight.
Trucks dumped about 160 tonnes of tomatoes for some 20,000 participants, many from abroad, to throw during the hour-long morning festivities yesterday. La Tomatina celebrated its 73rd anniversary yesterday.
The event started in 1945, when an impromptu tomato battle began in a crowd in the People’s Square.
The event was so memorable that the participants gathered again the next year to repeat the dose. It was banned for a few years but, as yesterday’s action proves, the event is going stronger than ever in 2018.