Google doodles 70th year of world’s biggest food fight festival La Tomatina
Like any food fight — La Tomatina is a little bit of fun that got way out of hand
By : DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-08-26 11:26 GMT
August 26, is the 70th anniversary of La Tomatina, the yearly Spanish tomato-throwing festival that attracts tens of thousands to the tiny town of Buñol, Spain. Google is celebrating the festival by dedicating its doodle to the day.
The animated doodle shows a bunch of kids enjoying the world's biggest food fight while one kid is hanging up on pole with a scared emotion on his face.
La Tomatina is a food fight festival, which takes place on every last Wednesday of August in Bunol. According to Mirror.co.uk, the La Tomatina battle attracted around 20,000 people, with festival goers packing the streets to hurl tomatoes at one another for exactly one hour between 10am and 11am. During the fight, around 150,000 tomatoes are hurled.
La Tomatina festival is believed to have originated in 1945 when some young people went to the town square to attend the Giants and Big-Heads figures parade. The young boys decided to parade with a musician.
The energy of these young people caused one person to fall off the float. The participant flew into a fit of rage and started to hit everything in his path. There was a market stall of vegetables that fell victim to what soon became a furious crowd. People started to pelt each other with tomatoes until the local law enforcement ended the fruit battle.
(With Agency Inputs)