Things might be heating up here, but summer is about to wrap in Europe, and so has Spain’s annual La Tomatina festival – aka the ‘world’s biggest (and most good-natured) food fight’. This year 22,000 people – mostly wearing white – showed up in the town of Buñol near Valencia to hurl 150 tonnes of fresh tomatoes at each other – brought in on 7 trucks – in honour of its patron saint Louis Bertrán. Festival organisers say “it’s not just an event, it’s the soul of the town”. When there was nothing left to throw, many participants fell to the ground to make “tomato angels” while others washed their hair and even pashed in the passata. The festival isn’t considered wasteful as the fruit used has been deemed unfit for human consumption, but that isn’t stopping a couple of Aussies who plan to “make some spaghetti to have with our tomato sauce”. Waste not want not…