The tomato fight vs the tariff drop. Yesterday was the annual "La Tomatina" - it occurs in Spain where participants throw tomatoes at each other. There are a few rules for the one hour event:
don't bring bottles or hard objects don't tear others' clothes squash tomatoes before throwing them keep a safe distance from trucks stop when you hear the second warning firework
It has to be a stinky event as they say the tomatoes aren't consumable and would have been thrown away. The estimate is between 80,000 to 300,000 pounds of tomatoes. I have to think that's a bit of marketing hype.
The Globe says there were 20,000 revellers who "squished, smashed and hurled" the 120 tons of overripe tomatoes.
So we did our own squishing this week and squashed the tariffs. I guess they are being known as the elbows down tariffs for now.
We're working hard these days to find stories that can uplift people as compared to the barrage of news from the U.S. and from the wars in Gaza and Ukraine. Tomato fights in Spain definitely worked for me.
