====== Fish tomato ======

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[{{ :wiki:fish_tomato.png?nolink&200|Your regular fish tomato}}]

**Fish tomato** is a type of tomato that looks like a perfectly normal tomato, but tastes like fish. Such specimens are extremely rare, although there is not much demand for them anyway.

(In)famously, fish tomatoes are liked by [[Bart Hufnagel]]. He also claims that he grows them on trees, although it is undisputed that tomato plants are vines. This became the core claim of Hufnagel's [[Fish Tomato Hustle]].

===== Hypotheses =====

It is not exactly known what makes a tomato taste like fish. Several hypotheses advanced by [[scientists]] are published in paid scientific journals, and are enthusiastically ignored by the public.

The more approachable version was suggested by John from a pub across the street, who theorized that fish tomato is a rare mutation that develops an actual miniature fish inside. When his buddy Charlie disputed the conjecture, arguing that it is "impossible", John begged to differ and supplied a realistic model of his proposition:

[{{ :wiki:fish_tomato_explanation.png?nolink&200 |A realistic model of John's proposition}}]