Colorado-Texas Tomato War
The Colorado-Texas Tomato War was an annual event held at Twin Lakes, Lake County, Colorado. It was started in 1982 by local hotel owner Taylor Adams,[1] ended in the early 1990s, and was revived in 2011.[2] The event, held in September, pitted hundreds of Coloradans and Texans throwing ripe tomatoes at one another, as Coloradans attempted (and generally succeeded) in overrunning an "Alamo" built of straw bales and defended by the outnumbered Texans.
The combatants were identified by souvenir T-shirts sold by Ms. Adams. The event was based on the rivalry perceived by Coloradans against Texas visitors to the state. It is considered the source for the bumper sticker "Keep Colorado beautiful: put a Texan on a bus."[3][4] There is a festival located in Colorado annually.[5][6][7][8]
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- Tomato Battle
- Tomato Wars - A Dirty Business, August 25, 2008, McCook Daily Gazette
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- ↑ The Inn of the Black Wolf
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- ↑ Tomato wars, by goingsolo, Colorado Local Customs - Culture - VirtualTourist
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- ↑ Golden, Colorado - M-Blem on Mountainside
- ↑ Top Ten Reasons Dave Wiens Will Beat Lance Armstrong at the Leadville 100, Reason 10.) Twin Lakes is going to have its annual Coloradoans vs Texans tomato war a couple weeks early. It won’t go well for Lance., By Gregg, August 12, 2009, Mountain Bike Review
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