Revelers throw tomatoes during the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Two food warriors get ready to head into battle.

There were five full trucks of juicy ammunition.

Revelers are covered in tomato pulp while participating in the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Remember, tomatoes are acidic! If it gets in your eyes, ouch!

A reveler celebrates being covered in tomato pulp while participating in the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

This is the definition of a saucy smile.

The streets run with tomato gore!

A Japanese girl sits in tomato pulp while participating in the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Is she praying for peace or a piece of toast to make bruschetta?

Revelers throw tomato pulp while participating in the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Learning empathy for lasagna noodles is one of the side effects.

This is an ideal event for anyone recently sprayed by a skunk.

You don't come here to hold back, folks.

Nothing bonds friends like a food fight.

A reveler lays in tomato pulp while participating in the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Every time he shows this photo to people he's going to make them guess what this stuff is.

Revelers battle in tomato pulp in the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Heino Kalis/Reuters)

We really hope this guy was singing the theme song of "Attack of the Killer Tomatoes" during this.

Revelers embrace each other after the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Heino Kalis/Reuters)

Splattered sweethearts.

A girl stands under water during the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

Nice try, but you are going to smell like V8 for at least a week, lady!

Revelers use the public showers after participating in the annual Tomatina festival in Bunol, Spain (© Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images)

After the battle: Stop throwing juicy tomatoes, and try to pick up a juicy tomato!

In a 40,000-person food fight, everybody wins

8/30/2012

More than 40,000 fighters gathered in the Plaza Mayor in Bunol, Spain, to throw 120 tons of squishy tomatoes at one another for the city’s annual food-fighting battle royale, La Tomatina. Five trucks brought the ammunition to turn the square into a saucy red foam party. La Tomatina has been going on since 1945, and legend has it the tradition grew from a food fight among a group of childhood friends. Now thousands of fans — many with "Fanatic of the Tomatina" T-shirts — flock from all over the world to pelt each other with tomatoes and then wash off in a nearby river. Click through the photo gallery, and decide for yourself: Doesn't this sound a lot more fun and chill than running with the bulls? [Source]

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