romain@pyrnj.uucp (Romain Kang) (10/04/85)
I've been out of contact from the net for a while, so forgive me if
someone already posted this article, which I found in a local paper:
TOSSED SALAD SHARED AT FESTIVITIES IN SPAIN
BUNOL, Spain -- Six thousand people crowded in the town sqare here and
pelted each other with 132,000 pounds of overripe tomatoes at the
annual festoval of St. Louis Bertran.
"There weren't enough tomatoes in town, so we had to buy from
growers' co-ops in the region," said Josefa Garcia Hernandez, a city
councilwoman.
Garcia said the "tomatito," or little tomato, tradition began
in 1944 when some youths looking to liven up the town's fiesta took
overripe tomatoes from a grower's wagon and started pelting each
other.
[Material compiled from reports supplied by The Associated Press and
United Press International.]
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