La Tomatina tomato throwing festival hits Spain

One of the world's largest food fights, where revellers hurl thousands of rotting tomatoes at each other, has kicked off in Spain.

La Tomatina has for over 50 years seen tomato-loving partygoers descend on the small provincial town of Bunol each summer.

In just one hour they throw around 150,000 over-ripe tomatoes at one-another and play around in the pulp -- before all heading to a nearby river to wash off.

It's traditional that men participate bare-chested and that women wear white shirts… though they don't stay that way for long.