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Do you want to have a food fight? If so, you can go to Bunol, Spain, a town in the province of Valencia, the last Wednesday of August. On this day, 20,000 lucky people participate in the ultimate food fight with tomatoes.

Nobody really knows why La Tomatina began, but, one theory is upset town folk attacked one another with tomatoes back around the year 1945 during the Giants and Big-Head figures parade. Everyone enjoyed it so much that it became a tradition to have a community food fight on the last Wednesday of August every year.

On this last Wednesday of August every year, multiple trucks bring in tomatoes to the center of the town, known as, Plaza del Pueblo. The festival is not supposed to begin until someone climbs a two-story high, greased pole to reach a ham at the top. It is said the festival usually starts before anyone reaches the top of the pole. The signal for the fight to begin is the firing of water cannons. It is everyman for …show more content…
First rule is not to bring bottles or hard objects because they can cause harm to participants. Another is, one must squash the tomato before throwing it so the impact is not as hard. Also, do not rip other people’s shirts and finally, keep a safe distance from the large trucks that are there. With these rules the hour long food fight is safe for everyone.

La Tomatina appears to be one large stress relieving party, much like the Halloween tradition of pumpkin chucking in the United States. During this Halloween tradition, people catapult pumpkins with slingshots, pneumatic air cannons, etc. to see who can chuck the pumpkin the farthest. These traditions are similar because they both use food and one would think they both probably relieve some built up stress.

La Tomatina got my interest because it looks like a lot of fun. Who doesn’t like food fights, I know I would like to start one with mashed potatoes at the Thanksgiving dinner table

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...CHAPTER 1 THE PROBLEM AND ITS BACKGROUND I N T R O D U C T I O N An explicit place where someone can spend every minute of his/her spare time to relax or do some work in the office is what every Professional will definitely need on their workplace. As an office/faculty staff, the most vital office furniture that can be considered necessary was the office/faculty table and chair. This will give the employee the space and allotment that he or she needs to perform their task. Nevertheless, it is not easy to choose a working table because there are many different office/faculty tables available in the market, where in you can be comfortable to execute tasks at the same time as a Professional who performs his/ her job he/she can accomplish it with attentiveness on work by putting a partition. Deciding what style of office/faculty table you would like (contemporary, traditional, classic wood, laminate, etc.) is very difficult and balancing it with what you can afford. Additional costs will also encounter with options that are added to each office/faculty table. Office/faculty table options can include drawers, shelves, hutches, lateral file drawers, credenzas. However, these added options for the office/faculty tables can help a lot for the orderliness of the workplace same through with the organizations of the table. Many manufacturer of office furniture which offers high-end products, bargains a variety of office tables. But the thing is, does it...

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