Every year, on the last Wednesday of August, an unusual event takes place in the Valencian town of Bunol, Spain. We are talking about the biggest food fight in the world, where participants are throwing tomatoes at each other… just for fun.
It looks like everything started in 1945 when a fight started in the Plaza del Pueblo between two groups of young men. The only “weapons” they used were the tomatoes they could find on a stand nearby. The police had to interfere to calm the spirits down.
As a recollection of this event, a new fight was organized next year and so on for the years that followed.
Today, almost 50,000 men are coming from all over the world to take part in this event and 200,000 tomatoes are thrown at each other.
There are some rules to be followed, as well:
- - In order to avoid injuries, the tomatoes have to be squashed
- - No other projectiles are allowed
- - The participants have to give way to the lories and trucks
- - The fight has to start / finish when the signal is given.
The fight lasts for exactly one hour.
They must have a lot of fun… :)
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