The World's Biggest Food Fight.

PositionTHE BIG PICTURE - La Tomatina in Bunol, Spain - Brief article

Food fights aren't allowed in your school cafeteria, but they're part of a yearly tradition in Bunol, Spain. Each August, the city hosts La Tomatina, the world's largest tomato fight. This year, trucks brought more than 160 tons of overripe tomatoes into the streets for 20,000 people to fling at one another. The festival dates back to the 1940s, though nobody knows for sure how it got started. One popular legend is that some boys at a parade in Bunol began throwing tomatoes at city officials in protest...

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