Mmmmmmm...Tomatoes

[underpants]

Unidentified people lie in a river of tomato juice at the end of the 'Tomatina' tomato throwing festival in Bunol, eastern Spain. (AP /Ramon Espinosa)

[demnan]

1. Is Spain like the most bizarre place in the world?

First they have a festival where they try to outrun bulls and get gored, and now this?

What a waste of my favorite fruit.

[Kellanved]

5. The EU has a huge tomato overproduction

So this isn't a waste any more than the other ways to protect the price of tomatoes.

Yes, EU agriculture politics are completely nuts.

[trotsky]

2. I love tomatoes, but...

that "festival" is disgusting on so many levels.

[sui generis]

3. while fascinated with this it also bothers me

it just seems so wasteful of a food resource. Am I just uptight?

[soothsayer]

8. yep, just uptight n/t

[GOPisEvil]

4. I have this strange craving for marinara now...

Does Spain have a basil festival, too?

[MissMillie]

6. What a waste

I wonder how many of Spain's poor would have loved to have had those tomatoes to sauce, or can, or just eat.

[LiberalVoice]

7. I hate tomatoe but I might make an exception...

if they throw in some of those ladies! :P