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TOMATOES.........
RED JUICY TOMATOES~~~~~~
we often take it as a food..
very the healthy - high content of Vitamin C...

but thr's ppl who take tomatoes in a different and unusual way..
instead of eating it, they THROW it..
seriously......
in the eastern Spanish town of Bunol, lies a world record holder event..
it is, with reference from MSN news, the WORLD'S BIGGEST TOMATO FIGHT...

BUNOL, according to WIKIPEDIA...
it is a small town of 112km2, 38km west of the province of Valencia, Spain..
it has a population of only 9000..
but is visited by over 30k for the La Tomatina event, which is the tomato fight event..
the event is held on the last wednesday of august yearly..
quoted from the WIKIPEDIA, "On August 29, 2007, 40,000 Spaniards gathered in the town to throw 115,000 kilograms of tomatoes at each other in the yearly Tomatina festival. Bare-chested tourists also included hundreds of British, French, and Germans"
quoted from MSN news:

Tens of thousands of people from around the world have hurled tonnes of ripe tomatoes at each other in an annual food fight that leaves the eastern Spanish town of Bunol covered in red pulp.

More than 40,000 people took part this year in the food fight known as the "Tomatina", now in its 64th year.

They were provided with over 100 tonnes of tomatoes by the town council for the battle.

This week's massive food fight lasted about one hour and left participants covered in pulp and standing ankle-deep in red mush.

Many men were shirtless while others wore old clothes, hard hats, goggles or protective plastic sheets.

Shopkeepers put up huge plastic covers on their store fronts or boarded them up for protection.

Later, municipal workers and local residents used giant hoses to clean the walls and streets.

Meanwhile the food fighters headed to a nearby river where temporary showers were set up.

The event cost the town of some 10,000 residents 28,000 euros (40,000 dollars) to stage, Spanish media reported.

The "Tomatina" is held each year in Bunol, located in a fertile region some 40 kilometres north of the coastal city of Valencia, Spain's third-largest city, on the last Wednesday in August.

The origins of the event are unclear although it is thought to have its roots in a food fight between childhood friends in the mid-1940s in the city.

It has grown in size as international press coverage brought more and more people to the festival.

AFP

those trucks, or rather containers, there are 4 of them during the event..
with a total of 150k tomatoes (about 90k pounds) for u to throw at anyting u see!! xD

bloody~~~~~~^^
some facts of the event~ (from don Quijote)

• Celebrated on the last Wednesday of the month of August.
• There is no political or religious significance to La Tomatina, it's just good, messy fun.
• Participants who show up from around the world: 20,000.
• Number of tomatoes used: 150,000 ...that's over 90,000 pounds of tomatoes!
• Dan Quayle's plural of tomato: tomatoees.
• Buckets of water are thrown at the crowds first by the fight instigators in the tomato trucks, as a foreshadowing of the veggie barrage to come.
• After the battle, you can hose off the splatter on the riverbank, where the town slaps together makeshift public showers.
• Every year, the fight is nationally televised by the most prestigious agencies in Spain.

references / credits:
http://news.my.msn.com/article.aspx?cp-documentid=3552281
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bu%C3%B1ol%2C_Spain
http://www.donquijote.org/culture/spain/fiestas/tomatina.asp