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 [{{ :​wiki:​fish_tomato.png?​nolink&​200|Your regular fish tomato}}] [{{ :​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 ​admittedly ​there is not much demand for them anyway.+**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.+(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 ===== ===== Hypotheses =====
  
-It is not exactly known what makes a tomato taste like fish. Several hypotheses advanced by [[scientists]] are published in paid scientific journals, ​so basically nobody knows.+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 ​is that the fish tomato is a rare mutation that managed to spontaneously grow an actual miniature fish inside.+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:​
  
-===== See also ===== +[{{ :​wiki:​fish_tomato_explanation.png?​nolink&​200 |A realistic model of John's proposition}}]
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-[[The Fish Tomato Hustle]]+
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