"We Texans can't get enough of Colorado's towering mountains, wild ranch lands, often pleasant weather, and charmingly quirky residents. So it's customary for us to head that way each year; in fact, some of us Texans even establish second homes up in the Rocky Mountain State.
"Well, some Coloradoans are tired of us, and they've been doing something about it for a decent portion of the last 40 years. Specifically, those Coloradoans gather in a field once a year and pelt thousands of tomatoes at Texans."
"Coloradoans love the money that Texans bring to the state, but we just rather they stay home," joked J David Holt, coordinator of The Great Colorado vs. Texas Tomato War. This year's war takes place Sept. 21 in a field near Poncha Springs, Colo., about 100 miles west of Colorado Springs.
Holt said the current-day tomato war is an excuse to have fun and acknowledge what Texans bring to Colorado, but its origins are steeped in aggression. Around 1982, Taylor Adams, owner of an inn in Twin Lakes, Colo., was taken aback by a comment made by a visitor from Dallas. According to the Tomato War's official history, the Texan was surveying the natural beauty of Twin Lakes before turning to Adams.
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