According to Reuters, on August 31, local time, the "tomato war" in the Spanish town of Bunyor, which had been suspended for two years due to the epidemic, returned, and more than 20,000 revelers threw about 130 tons of tomatoes at each other at the 75th Tomato Festival.
In the live video, trucks full of ripe tomatoes pass through the crowd, and the "tomato pool" is full of people, and the scene is out of control.
Every year at the end of August, the eastern Spanish town of Buñol hosts the Tomato Festival, which usually lasts for a week, with the most popular of which is the reserved program " Tomato Wars " on the last Wednesday of August. Because of the new crown epidemic, the tomato festival was suspended for two years and restarted this year.
Due to the large number of participants this year, the organizers recommend arriving at the event location at least two hours early.
At noon on August 31, local time, with a command, the "Tomato War" began, 6 trucks filled with tomatoes drove onto the main street of Buñol, and people around them rushed to the trucks, and a scuffle began.
More than 20,000 carnival participants frantically smashed ripe tomatoes at each other, and the crushed tomatoes "flew" in the town for nearly an hour, splashing red juice everywhere.
The entire center of the town became a "sea of tomatoes", and the participants who were not enough "bullets" even lay on the ground and fought fiercely in the tomato mud, smashing into the end everyone looked exhausted.
Reuters said the war consumed about 130 tons of tomatoes.
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The Spanish "Tomato Festival", which is no less famous than the "Running Bull Festival", began in 1945, and it is rumored that the "Tomato War" originated from a conflict between the residents of the small town of Buñol. Once halted in the 1950s, the event became popular after its restart in the 1980s and attracted an increasing number of Spaniards and overseas tourists.
Since 2013, because the tomato festival is too crowded, organizers have begun to limit the number of participants and sell tickets. Tickets for this year's "Tomato Wars" event are 12 euros, and the organizers also provide packages (priced from 39.5 euros) that include transportation, catering and other services for tourists to choose from.
However, after the video of this year's event was released, there was a criticism on Twitter as usual that questioned the waste of food in the move. Some foreign netizens said that some people are still starving and should not waste so many tomatoes.
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