Source: Atlas Obscura
At the end of Trinity term, the final term of the academic year, graduating students at the University of Oxford get the chance to engage in a spectacularly messy revelry known as Trashing. As these students hand in their last exams and walk out the door of the Examination Schools, gangs of eagerly awaiting friends greet them, armed with eggs, ketchup, pudding, canned beans, whipped cream, paprika, tuna fish, and plenty of bottles of champagne.
What happens next can only be described as chaos, as friends shower the students with food products (as well as nonedibles such as…