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Food Fight! Annual Tomatina fiesta
The Tomatina
August 27, 2008
Revelers throw tomatoes during the annual food fight, the Tomatina, in the town of Bunol, Spain. Each year thousands of people gather to hurl truckloads of tomatoes at each other. Local lore says it began in the mid-1940s with a food battle that broke out between youngsters near a vegetable stand on the town square in Bunol.
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