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Food fight This crowd is restricted to

festival 20,000 people—double the
town’s usual population.
In the past, 50,000 people
crammed into Buñol
for the festival.
Tomatoes are weapons of war at the
annual La Tomatina, the messiest day on

Spain’s festival calendar. This celebratory
fruit-fest is now the world’s biggest food
fight. Armed with an endless supply

of squashed tomatoes, thousands
of participants prepare

for pelting!

MELON MADNESS

The fruit of choice at the
Chinchilla Festival in Australia
is the watermelon. Taking center
stage every other February, Participants are pulped
with overripe tomatoes,
watermelons are celebrated in a transforming the crowd
number of activities, with melon into a soupy red mess.
skiing (above), melon tossing,
and pip spitting all on the menu.

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