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La Tomatina
« on: September 06, 2010, 06:44:43 am »
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Apparently this has been going on for 60 years or so in this little town in Spain.
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #1 on: September 06, 2010, 07:14:38 am »
Sexy ladies smashing ripe juicy tomatoes all over each other once a year?

When will our backward American traditionalism ketchup with Europe?
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #2 on: September 06, 2010, 08:55:48 am »
This town is someone's fetish.
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #3 on: September 06, 2010, 12:20:48 pm »
Paul, you need to go!
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #4 on: September 06, 2010, 08:39:47 pm »
Who goes to the one where a donkey goat is thrown off a church roof from a belltower?


*edited for reality check. Make that surreality check.
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #5 on: September 06, 2010, 08:51:46 pm »
Quote from: wombat on September 06, 2010, 12:20:48 pm
Paul, you need to go!

No, I could never go to this.  It makes me sad just seeing the pictures of all the wasted tomatoes.
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #6 on: September 07, 2010, 02:28:52 pm »
I never would have suspected Paul of having such sadly misplaced priorities.
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #7 on: September 07, 2010, 02:53:43 pm »
You people KNOW how he feels about tomatoes. That is like the first thing I knew about Paul!
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #8 on: September 07, 2010, 05:11:44 pm »
Paul, I feel you need to rethink this. Saying those tomatoes are wasted is like saying, if you glued, I don't know, bottlecaps all over a car, the bottlecaps would be wasted. This is performance art.
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #9 on: September 07, 2010, 06:39:25 pm »
Quote from: wombat on September 07, 2010, 05:11:44 pm
Paul, I feel you need to rethink this. Saying those tomatoes are wasted is like saying, if you glued, I don't know, bottlecaps all over a car, the bottlecaps would be wasted. This is performance art.

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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #10 on: September 07, 2010, 06:59:16 pm »
It just reminds me of the long months of winter when good fresh vine ripened tomatoes are so hard to come by.

It's harvest time when the tomatoes are juicy and bursting with flavor. They should be eating those tomatoes raw, and cooking them into a thousand different recipes.  They should be celebrating the plentiful harvest of tomatoes and not splattering them against a wall.

I guess this is akin to the running of the bulls in Pamplona.  Except at the end of the running of the bulls the bulls aren't lying in the street dead, their blood splattered on the walls.  

Also, you'd think that people writhing around half naked in a river of tomato sauce would be more sexy.  Sadly, it's not.
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #11 on: September 07, 2010, 07:20:48 pm »
But if the tomatoes have souls...

Wait.

Wrong thread.
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #12 on: September 07, 2010, 07:45:53 pm »
Quote from: pmcd9 on September 07, 2010, 06:59:16 pm

I guess this is akin to the running of the bulls in Pamplona.  Except at the end of the running of the bulls the bulls aren't lying in the street dead, their blood splattered on the walls.  


Uh, I thought the bulls were going to the bullfighting ring in Pamplona.  So at the end of the day...
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« Reply #13 on: September 07, 2010, 07:49:23 pm »
Quote from: AugustWest on September 07, 2010, 07:45:53 pm
Uh, I thought the bulls were going to the bullfighting ring in Pamplona.  So at the end of the day...
...their testicles are on a plate, and their flesh feeds the poor.
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Re: La Tomatina
« Reply #14 on: September 07, 2010, 07:51:59 pm »
Paul can't imagine that a place could just have too many tomatoes.
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