: a playful fight in which people throw food at each other
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President Trump's joint address to Congress devolved, within minutes, into the nastiest partisan food fight in the history of this annual tradition.—Zachary Basu, Axios, 5 Mar. 2025 In the week leading up to Donald Trump’s inauguration, a brief but sloppy food fight broke out between the Trump team and the outgoing Biden administration over who deserves credit for finalizing a cease-fire deal in the Gaza Strip.—Noah Rothman, National Review, 24 Jan. 2025 Biden, meanwhile, largely stayed out of the food fight in Congress.—Alexander Bolton, The Hill, 24 Dec. 2024 So, to waste time over a nonsensical intramural food fight is a joke.—ABC News, 29 Dec. 2024 Extending Trump's tax cuts will become a major intra-party food fight with a few deficit hawks balking at anything that raises the deficit, which will be just about everything.—Josh Hammer, Newsweek, 24 Dec. 2024 Realistic Quotas: Don't set your team up for a food fight with impossible-to-reach quotas.—Anjai Lal, Forbes, 20 Nov. 2024 The on-going food fight between Google and the Australian Government in the person of Communications Minister Stephen Conroy broke out again this week.—IEEE Spectrum, 28 May 2010 What can a gracious and caring host do to avoid a polarizing food fight and acrid debate?—Lance Eliot, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
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