{"id":127411,"date":"2022-08-20T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-136331"},"modified":"2022-08-20T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T15:30:00","slug":"animal-crossing-new-horizons-is-celebrating-tomato-throwing-with-a-tomato-t-shirt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/08\/20\/animal-crossing-new-horizons-is-celebrating-tomato-throwing-with-a-tomato-t-shirt\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Crossing: New Horizons Is Celebrating Tomato-Throwing With A Tomato T-Shirt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0cba35aa80780\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0cba35aa80780\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture ptris\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Tomato Town\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0cba35aa80780\/tomato-town.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/0cba35aa80780\/tomato-town.900x.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" alt=\"Tomato Town\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/animalcrossing\/status\/1560990041874354176\">Nintendo<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It&#8217;s almost the end of August, which means it&#8217;s almost time for Spain&#8217;s <em><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/La_Tomatina\">La Tomatina<\/a><\/em> festival, an event in which the residents of Valencian town Bu\u00f1ol throw a bunch of the goopy red fruits at each other until the town square looks like ragu.<\/p>\n<p>Isabelle&#8217;s apparently just come back from her holidays in Spain, because she&#8217;s decided to celebrate this messy festival with in-game items for Animal Crossing: New Horizons, similar to other festive events and items that are released throughout the year.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hiya, everyone! In Spain, there&#8217;s a festival where participants throw ripened tomatoes at each other. To celebrate this event, Nook Shopping will be selling a tomato-themed item starting today. You have until August 31st to pick it up! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Y0r77Yd0lg\">pic.twitter.com\/Y0r77Yd0lg<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Isabelle (@animalcrossing) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/animalcrossing\/status\/1560990041874354176?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The item in question is a bold and bright T-shirt with a tomato and the word &#8220;tomate&#8221; on it, which is \u2014 you guessed it \u2014 the Spanish for &#8220;tomatoes&#8221;. And look at the attention to detail in this picture: Tomato boxes, growing tomatoes, pizza and stuffed tomatoes, red hair&#8230; You can even see Ketchup in the back there, wondering if this all counts as cannibalism.<\/p>\n<p>Grab your tomato T-shirt before the 31st August, which is when La Tomatina takes place, and you&#8217;ll be the talk of the tomat-own. Tomato. Town. Hmm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Nintendo It&#8217;s almost the end of August, which means it&#8217;s almost time for Spain&#8217;s La Tomatina festival, an event in which the residents of Valencian town Bu\u00f1ol throw a bunch of the goopy red fruits at each other until the town square looks like ragu. Isabelle&#8217;s apparently just come back from her holidays in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-127411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=127411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}