Is the La Tomatina festival of Spain a huge wastage of food?

While the original tomatina was born out of an spontaneous street food fight, with the time Buñol has focused in hoarding rotten or near to be rotten tomatoes for the festival, so nowadays they mostly employ vegetables unfit for human consumption since they are past their expiration date. read more

On the last Wednesday of August each year, the tiny town of Buñol , Spain, hosts the world's largest food fight: La Tomatina. It’s a soggy, sweaty, crowded mess that since 2013 has been a ticketed event—a policy put in place to keep the enthusiastic crowds down to a manageable 20,000. read more

La Tomatina is a famous Festival in Spain. It is an annual event which involves thousands of people who engage in a tomato fight for an hour. La Tomatina festival is crowned as the biggest annual food fight in the world. History of the Festival . It is speculated that La Tomatina festival began either in 1944 or 1945. read more