AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - Spain's La Tomatina draws 20,000 revelers to a tiny town for the world's biggest food fight
More than 20,000 people descended on the small Spanish town of Buñol for the annual La Tomatina tomato fight, a tradition that has survived a dictator's ban and now draws nearly half its crowd from overseas. Loaded trucks rolled through narrow streets on Wednesday morning as revelers pelted one another with overripe tomatoes for more […] The post Spain's La Tomatina draws 20,000 revelers to a tiny town for the world's biggest food fight appeared first on American Almanac .
More than 20,000 people descended on the small Spanish town of Buñol for the annual La Tomatina tomato fight, a tradition that has survived a dictator's ban and now draws nearly half its crowd from overseas. Loaded trucks rolled through narrow streets on Wednesday morning as revelers pelted one another with overripe tomatoes for more than an hour. A cannon blast signaled the end. Then came communal showers, hoses on the pavement, and stains on clothes that may never wash out. The town had draped its buildings in tarps beforehand, a practical concession to the chaos that has defined La Tomatina since 1945. The annual food fight, held every last Wednesday of August in this town near Valencia, has grown from a local oddity into an…Open