200,000 pounds of tomatoes wasted on fun.
Revellers get red-faced in mushy Spanish tomato fest
BUNOL (Spain), Aug 26 ? Tens of thousands of revellers from around the world pelted each other with tonnes of tomatoes yesterday in a mushy festival in the eastern Spanish town of Bunol. The one-hour bloodless battle, known as the Tomatina, left the town awash in a sea of tomato pulp. The town council brought in some 100 tonnes of ripe tomatoes
Revellers get red-faced in mushy Spanish tomato fest
BUNOL (Spain), Aug 26 ? Tens of thousands of revellers from around the world pelted each other with tonnes of tomatoes yesterday in a mushy festival in the eastern Spanish town of Bunol. The one-hour bloodless battle, known as the Tomatina, left the town awash in a sea of tomato pulp. The town council brought in some 100 tonnes of ripe tomatoes