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“Flour-Fueled Chaos: Ibi's 200-Year-Old Food Fight Returns!”

12/28/2025

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Els Enfarinats, the annual food fight festival in Ibi, Spain, took place on December 28, 2025.
Participants wore military-style costumes and staged a mock coup using eggs, flour, and firecrackers.
They solicited 'taxes' as charitable donations from locals, and those who refused faced egg splats.
The tradition, more than 200 years old, aligns with Spain's Day of the Innocents and leaves the town covered in flour and egg shells.

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Els Enfarinats, the annual food fight festival in Ibi, Spain, took place on December 28, 2025.
Participants wore military-style costumes and staged a mock coup using eggs, flour, and firecrackers.
They solicited 'taxes' as charitable donations from locals, and those who refused faced egg splats.
The tradition, more than 200 years old, aligns with Spain's Day of the Innocents and leaves the town covered in flour and egg shells.