Tomato Fight Festival, Bunol, Spain
About 9,600 people live in Buñol, Spain, but the population explodes each August when thousands of people visit to take part in one of the world’s most famous food fights. This village near Valencia started hosting the tomato fight in the mid-1940s. It became known as La Tomatina in the 1970s and is exactly what it appears to be: visitors and Spaniards chuck hundreds of tomatoes at each other in the streets. It’s unclear when or why the first tomato fight took place in Buñol, but people thought it was such a great idea that it became a tradition.
