World's Weirdest Food Festivals

From armadillo-tacos and cheese-curd eating, to tomato hurling and tuna tossing, these spirited events celebrate food around the world.

Here, Food & Wine presents the World's Weirdest Food Festivals. —Nancy Davison

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What's rumored to have originated as a local brawl (possibly an attack on city council members by disgruntled townspeople) in Buñol, Spain, has turned into the world's largest food fight, with some 45,000 revelers hurling more than 250,000 pounds of tomatoes at one another the last Wednesday in August. Plus: Terrific Tomato Recipes Photo © Juanjo Valverde

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What's rumored to have originated as a local brawl (possibly an attack on city council members by disgruntled townspeople) in Buñol, Spain, has turned into the world's largest food fight, with some 45,000 revelers hurling more than 250,000 pounds of tomatoes at one another the last Wednesday in August.

Plus: Terrific Tomato Recipes

Photo © Juanjo Valverde

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[snuffy0104]

09:40 AM on 07/20/2011

apple scrapple fest in bridgeville delaware may not attract tens of thousands of visitors, but the food is awesome, the entertainment is decent, n we all have a great time 2gether this year its october 14 and 15th, everyone come

[evilchihuahua]

01:29 PM on 07/19/2011

The tomato one looks like the most fun.

[kmdippenger]

11:46 AM on 07/19/2011

I was sure you'd have discovered the orange throwing festival in Ivrea Italy.
http://www.google.com/search?q=ivrea+orange+festival&hl=en&client=safari&rls=en&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Y6YlToK1C4HDgQeL8t2CCA&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=842

[Ayla McIntosh]

10:29 AM on 07/19/2011

Nothing like a quarter million pound food fight