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Saturday was a great day for the first ever La Tomatina en Reno! The sun was shining, downtown Reno was alive with music and food and people enjoying the afternoon. Then things got messy…

Tomatoes are good for the body and events like this, when you combine having fun with friends and a great community, are good for the soul. You raised a lot of money for the American Cancer Society and from the looks of it had a great time doing it!

Revelers @ La Tomatina en Reno photo from RSCVA

We had 50,000 pounds of tomatoes dumped into the plaza on the river @ 10 North Virginia Street, and it was all we could do to hold back the crowd long enough for everyone to get in. As soon as the largest food fight Reno has ever seen started tomatoes flew and hung in the air like a thick red fog.

The fight lasted almost an hour and would have continued into the night if we had let it. Reno has amazing stamina for events like this, and that makes if even more fun! Even spectators on the street and in our parking garage were targets of tomato sharpshooters on the plaza.

Thanks for coming out! Thanks for coming in costume! Thanks for making this event even more “off the hook” than we’d hoped! And thanks for helping us raise money to fight cancer.

If you took pictures @ the event you can add them to the Flickr group or post them to our page on Facebook. Got any video? Tag it with TomatinaReno on YouTube or post a link in the comments, we’d love to see them!

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That aren’t so great…

Here at Club Cal Neva we are always trying to improve the guest experience, and recently we became aware of the amazing benefit to a diet rich in tomatos. So we thought there might be some other areas of life where tomatos could help out. Below are the results:

#10 Tomato Beer Pong

While fun, tomato beer pong lacks the long term potential for success in the realm of beer sports. Any margin gain in ping pong ball savings is eaten up in carpet shampooing costs.

#9 Tomato Blackjack

Though tomatos are a colorful addition to any table game, currently no venues in reno will exchange a beer for a tomato…

#8 Tomato Roulette

Unfortunately, the physical properties of a tomato make the random action necessary in a roulette ball a little too unpredictable. It was continually hard to determine the value of the final resting place of the tomato on the dial. We had to discontinue tomato roulette almost as soon as it started.

#7 Tomato Golf

No amount of skill can improve performance and the short game tends to be messy.

#6 Tomato Assault

Though throwing tomatos at your boss can be extremely satisfying in the short term, eventually Dennis got mad, and payback was unpleasant.

#5 Tomato Racquetball

Early testing proved this to be quite similar to throwing tomatos at Dennis. It was actually more effective at tomato assault than tomato raquet ball.

#4 Shot Gun Target

This is where things got interesting. Tomatos are biodegradeable, cheep and can be used as a healthy snack on a hot day in the desert. However, they can’t hold a candle to clay pigeons for shot gun targets.

#3 Shot gun as SKS target

An SKS is a powerful machine gun. While it is always fun to shoot one, tomatos don’t provide the drama and explosiveness to really showcase the SKS’s power.

#2 Tomato Beer

Useful as a hangover cure, this is what we call the “all natural” version of a bloody beer. Still, after having it on the menu for a whole week, we didn’t sell any and ended up with a bunch of tomatos that were only good for one thing…

#1 BEST USE FOR A TOMATO: La Tomatina En Reno

Throw a tomato, and save a life. The American Cancer Society and Club Cal Neva present: La Tomatina en Reno, August 29th, in Reno, Nevada at the Plaza on the River right next to the Club Cal Neva Casino.

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