Simpsons Fan Creates Real Life "Tommacco"!

Simpsons Channel ^ | 11/3/03

[Central Scrutiniser]

Tomacco Becomes A Reality! October 29 » Posted By Adam » Source: KPTV

Rob Baur, a huge Simpsons fan, grafted a tomato plant to a tobacco plant, grew it, and tonight he has proof from the lab that it worked. "What we found was nicotine in the leaves". said scientist Ray Grimsbo. The plant grew off the tobacco roots and sucked up the nicotine, just like Tomacco on The Simpsons. The lab hasn't tested if the actual tomato has nicotine in it yet, but they say it probably does. "Generally in the fruit there is more material concentrated because that's what everything's going through to produce the fruit for the next generation. I would expect there would be more." And that would make the real life tomacco plant very poisonous. Rob Baur says he grew the tomacco plant just for fun, just to see if it would really work. But what's next for him? "I'll have to review my DVD's to see if there is more Simpsons science available."

[Central Scrutiniser]

When reached for a comment, Professor John Frink remarked: "Dear God, what they have done with the tomato, and the tobacco and what with the grafting and the plant and the cross species and the Glavin!!"

[Central Scrutiniser]

[Rodney King]

Awesome!

[Central Scrutiniser]

"It tastes awful, yet I must have more!"

[Calvin Locke]

"Simpsons did it"

[Svenge]

This tastes like Grandma!

[dk88]

See it here: (VIDEO links)

http://www.kptv.com/Global/SearchResults.asp?qu=TOMACCO

[Coeur de Lion]

Makes sense, given that tomatoes and tobacco are both in the same botanical family i.e. Solanaceae (nightshade).

[tet68]

Reminds me of my grafting experiments with Marijuana and kudzu but perhaps that's better in the past.

[thoughtomator]

Next thing you know, they'll graft tomato plants to marijuana plants and tomatoes will be illegal! Italians and theatre critics everywhere will be outraged!

[Petronski]

This makes me very nervous. I think I'll go have some ketchup and try to relax.

[nightdriver]

This is nothing new. Many years ago they discovered that they could grow nicotine-bearing tomatoes by grafting tomato plants onto tobacco plant roots.

They also have produced nicotene-free tobacco by grafting tobacco plants onto tomato plant roots.

[Chewbacca]

I bet they get sued for trademark/copyright infringment.

[herewego]

heh, huh huh huh- forgot what I was gonna say...
I hope this brings the price of weed down and not tomaters up..

[Oztrich Boy]

Where did he get the plutonium?