Madrid, Spain - Knee-deep in red mush, tens of thousands of revelers pelted each other with tons of ripe tomatoes Wednesday in Spain's messiest summer party.What's Spanish for joie de vivre?
Police in the eastern village of Bunol - population 10,000 - said some 36,000 people waged the hour-long food fight, bathing themselves, the walls and streets with 140 tons of fruit projectiles.
It all started with a pistol shot at high noon, after which six trucks unloaded fruit ammunition for Spaniards and tourists from as far away as Japan who had gathered to paste each other in the decades-old battle called "La Tomatina."
Footnote: Yes, I know about waste of food, coulda woulda shoulda, and the rest. But if this "summer party" did not occur, would that fruit have gone to market? Would it have been donated to feed the hungry? Since I think it's safe to answer "no" to both those questions, I don't accept the objection.
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