Annual Tomato Fight Paints Spanish Town Red 
About 40,000 people descended on the Spanish town of Bunol to take part on Wednesday, August 27, 2008, in the Tomatina festival. The food fight draws visitors from around the world to the normally quiet village in eastern Spain. The festival started in the 1940s when a group of young friends began throwing their lunch at each other near a vegetable stand in the town square. They met again the next year to pelt each other along with passers-by, creating an annual tradition.