You say tomato, I say … ready, set, food fight!

They’re three teenagers having a vision. An image of … tomato plants. Flying tomato plants.

An image of 200,000 pounds of flying tomato plants, over ripe and superbly mushy, being gleefully hurled at each other with a throng of 15,000 people on the warm This summer mid-day.

Why? Well, it may be stated that Kamal Mohamed, Kevin Master and Tom Broich possess a sixth sense about may be: They see red-colored people.

The trio of youthful entrepreneurs would be the driving pressure behind Midwest Tomato Fest. It is a planned daylong celebration which includes food and music looking for This summer 31 in the Afton Alps Entertainment Area and can culminate with a lot of fruit-switched-ammunition being used inside a sodden, crimson-drenched donnybrook.

All in good, not-so-clean fun.

Mohamed, Master and Broich are marketing, business or entrepreneurship students in the College of St. Thomas — the second two graduated this spring, and Mohamed includes a year of study left. They are wasting virtually no time putting their training to real-existence use, mixing youthful enthusiasm with business savvy.

Their idea was inspired by La Tomatina, an enormous, village-wide tomato fight dating back to a lot more than half a century in Buñol, The country. Oh, along with a lady.