La Tomatina Survey Results

No clothes = no tomato stains

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Today is national washing up day in Bunol, Spain because yesterday the small town hosted the world’s biggest food fight! Boasting slightly more than 9,000 residence, Bunol invited over 40,000 people to take part in La Tomatina.

To celebrate, we gave away a £100 hungryhouse voucher to one lucky winner. Congratulations to Mr. Barry Smith! He wins £100 to buy food weapon reserves for when a nation wide food fight reaches the UK … or order pizza for the next month.

That’s not all folks! The survey results are in and we have answers to your burning questions.

Read more to find out the cruel and unusual forms of food fight weaponry that your fellow countrymen plan to use when La Tomatina reaches our shores. You’ll want to be well prepared to defend off the guy with a live swordfish and the woman with ninja throwing tortilla chips.

1) What’s the best food weapon?

54% Tomatoes

4% Pudding

7% Spaghetti

7% Pie

28% Something else ….

It’s that 28% you need to be worried about. They have plans, and those plans involve causing you pain and stains for life. In general, the “something else” crew can be divided into three groups; cruel and unusual, messy, strange.

Cruel and Unusual 

  • Frozen Fish – obviously!
  • Deep-frozen raw eggs
  • Overcooked Pizza. It’d be like a giant throwing star
  • T-Bone steak
  • Frozen lasagne
  • A frozen leg of lamb
  • My wifes dumplings….they’d knock an elephant out
  • Something hard and unyielding, like a motorway service station pasty…
  • Chilli Beef Burrito…. Burn!!!
  • A large tanker of honey through a high pressure hose. Followed by a truck of coconut shavings…with an industrual fan!
  • Wet stinky pieces of fish
  • Custard (my first thought was a brick but that would be cheating)
  • Bananas!!!! They can be used as boomerangs and they HUUUUUURT as hell
  • A big fish to slap someone with!!
  • Lychees, they are remarkably hard yet spiky and you could smuggle them in without anyone knowing,..
  • Tortilla chips – they are like mexican ninja throwing stars!
Messy 
  • Pancakes with syrup on! Frisbee style!
  • Jelly- it really sticks
  • Custard cannon
  • Cold sticky boiled rice, it is easy to ball and has max mess effect.
  • Blue cheese, smelly and crumbly.
  • Chocolate sauce, messy, but fun to lick off…
  • Porridge. Sticks to you. Becomes cement. Never comes off
  • Meatballs in a catapult would be good!!!
  • A feast of missiles! The more the variety, the better the stains!
  • Big fat greasy kebab with lots of chill dripping of it
  • Ice Cream, acts like a snowball, melts and messes like a tomato :)
Strange
  • Allergies to everything. then no one will attack you out of pity! :)
  • Pocket sand!
  • Cream in a pressurised can, or cucumber batons.
  • Grapes, small but deadly
  • Expired food … Because you don’t waste good food.
  • Fish Pie! No one wants to be smelling like that for days…
  • A banana, You can wack people over the head with it, then peel it and mush it in their face.
  • Squirty cream or cheese in a spray – you could make art as you coated people in it
  • A baguette, you could use it like a sword or a staff then break it up into bits to throw!
  • Melted marshmallows
  • Mashed potatos and a ladel
  • Alphabet spaghetti – to spell out expletives!
  • Mexican fajita so you could “arrrrrriba” while slapping someone with it!
  • Onion Bhajis – accurate and stain opponents a fetching shade of yellow!
  • Super soaker filled with soup
  • Jello – because it jiggles!
  • Live Sword fish!
  • Tater Tots. Because they are like potato missiles
  • Cottage cheese and pinapple chunks mixed. Gross texture for hitting people, interesting lumps to throw and it smells awful and splats nicely
  • A water pistol full of gone-off milk.
  • Baby food; just ask my daughter
  • Multi-colured jelly, for that 1990s rave aesthetic.
2) Who deserves a tomato bashing?
We gave you five options and asked you to rank them based on your urge to turn their face into a tomato target. Not surprisingly, Mary Bale the evil cat woman stole the show.
1st place – Mary Bale: 44% put this evil cat lady at the top of the tomato target list. With Facebook groups dedicated to hating her (now pulled from Facebook) it’s no surprise that most of the country wants to nail her with tomatoes.
2nd place – tie: You can’t’ decide who to despise more, George Osborne or Piers Morgan. The two tied for 2nd place, with an equal 21% vote for the top spot. If it came down to the last tomato, hit George Osbourne.
3rd place – your boss: This survey proves that everyone loves their boss and we’re all satisfied in the work place. Or not … and your boss was sitting next to you when you filled in the survey.
4th place – your partner: Love is in the air, or maybe you want to have a place to stay tonight. Only 7% ranked their partner in the top tomato target spot. Pretty good ranking considering Britain has the highest divorce rate in the EU!
3) Should La Tomatina come to the UK?
Stay on the look out for swordfish wielding food fighters, because 67% of you would like to bring La Tomatina to the UK! If we can get the 9% “maybe” group involved, I think we have a good chance at taking over/converting the resisting 24%.

August 30, 2012 0 Comments Short URL ,