Another tomato slaughter !
By topffer
@topffer (42156)
France
August 30, 2017 2:17pm CST
740 policemen were mobilized today to permit to an uncontrolled crowd of 22000 people to throw barbarically 160 tons of ripe tomatoes to each other, an interesting pastime happening every year in Buñol(Spain) since 1945 where they call that a «tomatina». It is free for the inhabitants but people from other places have to pay 10 Euros to throw tomatoes. When I see the tomatoes on the walls, I understand why the locals have not to pay. I am not against traditions, but I am pleased that students are only throwing flour and eggs in my place
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Would you pay 10 Euros to participate to such an event ?
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Would you pay 10 Euros to participate to such an event ?22 people like this
22 responses
@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
30 Aug 17
They say they only use tomatoes that are way past their ripe time and not fit to eat.
Well I am saying that is what they say not me.
However its great fun and they are not harming anyone.
Its all nice if you have somewhere to go and get cleaned up after and washed and to throw the clothes away as they will be impossible to clean.
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@lovinangelsinstead21 (36850)
• Pamplona, Spain
30 Aug 17
@topffer
No they don´t that and they don´t sell a special detergent for San Fermin Clothes either which get incredibly filthy impossible to get clean.
I am so happy to be free of that dreaded chore of those white clothes, trousers and tee shirts.
The red handkerchiefs were not so bad really.
I can imagine that you would leave but its all a lot of fun really and least its not cruel either if you see what I mean.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
30 Aug 17
@lovinangelsinstead21 It is cruel for tomatoes, but they often have a bad end
. I have banned the white from my clothes a few years ago, I had not enough white clothes for a full washing machine, and I needed a different detergent (a powder detergent instead of a liquid one) for the white. No more white, no more hassle.
. I have banned the white from my clothes a few years ago, I had not enough white clothes for a full washing machine, and I needed a different detergent (a powder detergent instead of a liquid one) for the white. No more white, no more hassle.2 people like this
@topffer (42156)
• France
30 Aug 17
It might be fun, but I would not like to live in this city, or I would leave the day before until the streets are cleaned. I think I would have liked that when I was a student, but it is not for my age anymore. They do not sell a special "tomatina detergent" for the clothes?
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@youless (112100)
• Guangzhou, China
31 Aug 17
This is an interesting event but I don't know that you need to play 10 Euros for it. The money is not the main problem, somewhat I think it wastes a lot of tomatoes and I don't feel well to it. In Thailand and a part of my country, there is an event to pour water to each other. It is also nice.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
31 Aug 17
Yes, the tomatoes cannot be used for anything else. Students are throwing flour and eggs in the streets in France since more than a century. It is only 1 day/year for the "father 100" (100 days before the end of school)... It is a tradition now. This year our new mayor tried to forbid it, and it became even more wild : they were hidden here and there and played with the police all the day. I prefer to have it authorized, at least I know where they are
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@BarBaraPrz (45434)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
30 Aug 17
Not a dime!
What a waste of food.
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@averygirl72 (37715)
• Philippines
31 Aug 17
Interesting tradition or past time. It seems fun but it's wasting a lot of tomatoes
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! The tomatoes used for this event were too ripe to be sold.@averygirl72 (37715)
• Philippines
31 Aug 17
@topffer Oh I see. It seems people have great fun as I look in the picture
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@nanette64 (20364)
• Fairfield, Texas
31 Aug 17
I think it's absolutely stupid @topffer . What a waste of food.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
31 Aug 17
@thehousewife To tell the truth there is a lot of waste in developped countries, but nobody is hungry in a country like Spain. In France many supermarkets cannot even find a charity to give unsold food before the expiry date (it is forbidden to give expired food to humans)...
@YrNemo (20261)
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30 Aug 17
sounds such a waste of money! By the way, who is going to clean up all that mess every year I wonder? Oh well, if it means making some people happy (less chance for them to go to psychologists?), then why not heh? (Now I wonder, if Spain has less problem with mental issue than other countries? 
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@topffer (42156)
• France
30 Aug 17
The first thing that came to my mind is "who will clean this ?" Here it is the city who cleans the flour and the eggs in the streets. I believe it is the same. Poor employees
! I think I would have found that fun when I was a student ; today I would never go there. I am aging..
! I think I would have found that fun when I was a student ; today I would never go there. I am aging..1 person likes this
@marguicha (215148)
• Chile
31 Aug 17
Nope. Not even when I was young. But I would accept a basket of ripe tomatoes at a very low price
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@JohnRoberts (109857)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Aug 17
I would not pay for this. People are hungry in the world and all those tomatoes wasted for fun and games.
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@snowy22315 (169582)
• United States
31 Aug 17
@topffer Tomatoes are a bit fragile too, and would likely suffer during shipping.
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@topffer (42156)
• France
31 Aug 17
They are too ripe to be sold for anything else than that. An average of 12% of vegetables and fruits cannot be sold for various reasons, but it can be more for some delicate fruits : it is 25% for tomatoes and 36% for cherries. The producers have been paid for these rotten tomatoes.
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