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| - | ====== Fish Tomato ====== | + | ====== Fish tomato ====== |
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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. This became the core claim of Hufnagel's [[Fish Tomato Hustle]]. | (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]]. | ||
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| ===== 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, and are enthusiastically ignored by the non-paying public. | + | 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 drawing: | + | 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 schematic of John's hypothesis}}] | + | [{{ :wiki:fish_tomato_explanation.png?nolink&200 |A realistic model of John's proposition}}] |
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