It's just occurred to me that I may be able to take part in the world famous La Tomatina! For those of you who aren't aware, La Tomatina can only be summed up as the world's BIGGEST FOOD FIGHT.
Now, I can imagine most of your are thinking this is going to be one of those crazy old traditions that has maybe 80-100 people and just a small table of food...WRONG.
Once in a year, in the town of Bunol, in the region of Valencia, (The University I will be studying at during the summer) tens of thousands of people descend on the small town of Bunol. Although this town only has a population of 9000, it is no surprise to see between at least 20 000 - 50 000 turn up to take part in this phenomenon.
In short, each year, on the last Wednesday of August, tens of thousands of people gather in the streets to throw TONS of over-ripe tomatoes at each other for exactly an hour. It has been estimated that around 150 000 tomatoes, or 90 000 pounds of the food are thrown in this hour.
The festival is a week long and consists of dancing, street parties, fire works and on the night before the fight itself, a paella cooking competition.
Perhaps the strangest and yet most interesting fact about this famous event, is that no one is quite sure as to how it officially started. Of course there are rumours that it was simply witnessing a group of children having a food fight in the street, no one is quite sure of the official reason.
I am SO excited to think I may be able to actually participate in this! Pictures below!
This looks... disgusting.
ReplyDeleteThis looks... delicious.
ReplyDeletebtw, you need to add comma in labels -_-
Holy shit that's hot!
ReplyDeleteRUN WITH THE BULLS BRO DEWOOOS IT
ReplyDeletemind=blown!
ReplyDeletei may be tempted to come join this fun !
ReplyDeleteoh you silly spanish :P
ReplyDeletecool, red everywhere
ReplyDeleteLol this looks like so much fun xD
ReplyDeleteLooks fun
ReplyDeleteLucky...
ReplyDeleteblood was everywhere
ReplyDeleteI like tomatoes. I'd love to fight there, too! ;D
ReplyDeleteDude put some tomatoes in the freezer overnight then on the glorious day rack up kills using hardpacked frozen tomatoes and claim your victory.
ReplyDeleteLooks like fun..
ReplyDeleteWow...wish I could've been there....
ReplyDeleteAwesome.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I second the freezer idea
Awesome. I have always wanted to go there.
ReplyDeletewhat the hell??? are that red thing tomatoes???
ReplyDeletedamn! i know it's about culture and all but it's a crime to waste food!
Hah, that's cool!
ReplyDeleteive always wanted to do that
ReplyDeletePoor tomatoes :(
ReplyDeleteit would suck to be covered with tomato juice....
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the male to female ratio will be?
ReplyDeleteThats a lot of tomatoes
ReplyDeleteYeah... uh that looks actually very gross
ReplyDeletethe streets run red
ReplyDeletethat's pretty awesome
ReplyDeleteI definitely have to try this at least once in my lifetime.
ReplyDeleteexcellent!
ReplyDeleteGreat pictures! :)
ReplyDeleteI am envious. It looks like a big sausage fest, but still very fun.
ReplyDeleteLiking your blog, looking forward to seeing more in the future
ReplyDeletethis is awesome :)
ReplyDeletelooking forward to the next update...
ReplyDeletethis fight is an awesome thing!
ReplyDeleteHah! I fucking love Spain. More reason to do so because of your blog :D
ReplyDeleteGracias!
eww looks pretty gross :X
ReplyDeleteSilly people
ReplyDeleteThere's something that makes me want to make love to that woman.
ReplyDeleteI actually just saw a few clips on this recently, if I ever backpack Europe around these months (which is a good possibility, Oktoberfest ftw), I'll hit it up.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile in Africa..now following.
ReplyDeleteALL DEM POIPLE! ALL DEM...tomatoes?
ReplyDeleteThat's the shit. You've been lucky to have traveled and seen so much
ReplyDeleteWoah, I wish I could take part on it. Look at all that red.
ReplyDeletethis is where heinz ketchup comes from
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