Paint the town red. Spanish style
Spanish paint town red in ritual tomato fight
Tens of thousands of people armed with 100 tonnes of plum tomatoes took part in the “Tomatina” on Wednesday, joyously splattering each other in the Spanish town of Bunol.
The town hall of Bunol, which lies just inland from Valencia on Spain’s Mediterranean coast, spent 24,960 euros on the fruit and dumped it the streets for the chanting masses.
Five truckloads of vitamin C and fibre were soon pureed on El Cid Street, the ripe redness smeared over walls and people.
And it’s a social thing…
“I feel like I connected with a lot of people today,” said Karina Evans, 21, of Australia.
Nothing like a tomato in the face to meet new people and make new friends.
Of course, some tomatoes are better than others…
Frenzy erupted around the dump trucks and competition for the edible missiles was fierce. Whole tomatoes on the ground were treasured like ruby Easter eggs.
And you don’t just have to throw them…
Kate Monroe, 28, and Ryan Altman, 31, both of San Diego, California, reflected the general lack of inhibition by rubbing their barely clad, pulp-slathered bodies against each other.
See you in Spain!
Wednesday 31 Aug 2005 | Paul | The Pit
Sounds like fun, but here’s another use for extra tomatoes:
http://chianca-at-large.blogspot.com/2005/08/ill-never-look-at-can-of-contadina.html