Comments on: The World’s 10 Messiest Food Festivals

By: Scott Markle

Scott Markle — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 00:12:03 +0000

What about the bloody battle in Key West? There’s plenty of food thrown there!

By: spickles

spickles — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 21:09:36 +0000

How about the Telluride Tomato War that happens every September in Telluride CO?
They throw tomatoes at each other and whoever gets hit above the waist is dead. It’s a lot of fun.

By: Disgusted Damsel

Disgusted Damsel — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:45:43 +0000

I am disgusted at the people participating La Festival Gastronomico del Gato. Why would anyone eat a poor cat. I have two cats and I want to go beat up the Peruvians!!

Ugh!

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:21:25 +0000

they left it out on purpose so we would have something to comment about

By: Mangesh Hattikudur

Mangesh Hattikudur — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:02:00 +0000

Ha… we’ve done so many things on the La Tomatina, that we figured it’d be fun to leave it off of this list.

By: dangermouse

dangermouse — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 22:45:00 +0000

Thanks for including the Orange Battle at Ivrea – I attended one several years ago while living in the north of Italy and had no idea what to expect – it’s definitely much more brutal than La Tomatina as the oranges are shipped up from the South well before the festival and refrigerated to keep them ready to go – as well as the fact that it’s usually a freezing cold day, it inevitably results in rock-hard oranges and many bloody noses and other equally bad war wounds.

Spectators are supposed to wear red head-wear to signify that they don’t want to be hit, but there’s many mistimed and poor throws which really hurt! but village and familial pride is on the line – the wagons and team uniforms proudly display their crests and there are always crowd favourites.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:17:00 +0000

I was surprised there was no La Tomatina! Maybe you should add that one in.

By: Dave

Dave — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:11:00 +0000

side note to the WV Roadkill law. You can only eat the road kill that you hit. It is illegal to randomly pick up the road kill and take it home. It also will not count against your count for your hunting license.

“State Senators attached numerous ryders to the bill in order to get it passed. The bill does not allow for people to drive their vehicles through the front walls of restaurants in order to get some free food, and it is not applicable for humans who are hit by cars. However, vehicle operators are allowed to swerve and hit an animal they think looks particularly tasty, provided that animal is not on a leash, and/or being walked by a human.” – Charleston area newspaper when it was passed.

By: brian

brian — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 12:31:00 +0000

how could you possibly forget la tomatina?!

there’s also a candy fight in vilanova i la geltru here in catalunya

By: Karl

Karl — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:48:00 +0000

Hey, mental_floss, you forgot the largest food fight in the world. It’s in Buñol, Spain & it involves lots & lots of red tomaotes. And you call yourselves a trivia magazine.