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A tomacco is originally a fictional hybrid fruit that is half tomato and half tobacco, from the 1999 episode "E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)" of The Simpsons; the method used to create the tomacco in the episode is fictional. The tomacco became real when it was allegedly produced in 2003. The tomacco is one of the few made-up words in The Simpsons that resulted in real life application. Image File history File links Bart_tomaccos. ... Image File history File links Bart_tomaccos. ... Bartholomew Jo-Jo Bart Simpson is a main character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Nancy Cartwright. ... // In biology, hybrid has two meanings. ... For other uses, see Fruit (disambiguation). ... Binomial name Solanum lycopersicum L. Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Species Nicotiana acuminata Nicotiana alata Nicotiana attenuata Nicotiana benthamiana Nicotiana clevelandii Nicotiana excelsior Nicotiana forgetiana Nicotiana glauca Nicotiana glutinosa Nicotiana langsdorffii Nicotiana longiflora Nicotiana obtusifolia Nicotiana paniculata Nicotiana plumbagifolia Nicotiana quadrivalvis Nicotiana repanda Nicotiana rustica Nicotianasuaveolens Nicotiana sylvestris Nicotiana tabacum Nicotiana tomentosa Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005... 1999 (MCMXCIX) was a common year starting on Friday, and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. ... Simpsons redirects here. ... 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Simpsons television series has used many interesting words and phrases over the years, the most famous of which is Homers saying: Doh!, which is referred to in scripts, as well as several episode names, as annoyed grunt. Doh is now listed in the Oxford English Dictionary...

Fictional tomacco

Main article: E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt)

In the Simpsons' episode, the tomacco was accidentally created by Homer Simpson when he "planted a little bit of everything" and fertilized his tomato and tobacco fields with plutonium. The result is a tomato that apparently has a dried, gray tobacco center, and, although being described as tasting terrible by many characters (Ralph Wiggum: "Eww, Daddy, this tastes like Grandma!"), is also immediately and powerfully addictive. The creation is promptly labeled "Tomacco" by Homer and sold in large quantities to unsuspecting passers by. Soon, Laramie cigarettes, seeing an opportunity to sell their products to children legally, offers to buy the rights to market tomacco for $150 million, but Homer refuses, demanding $150 billion instead. This offer is rejected by the company's executives. The hybrid plant is so powerfully addictive that farm animals develop the abilities of speech and bipedal locomotion in their frenzied quest to gain more tomacco. A cow kicks down the door of the Simpson farmhouse and screams a rudimentary "TOMACCO!" when looking for more. Eventually, all but one of the tomacco plants are eaten by farm animals. The company executives manage to steal the last tomacco plant as they depart, but a tomacco-crazed sheep attacks them, causing their helicopter to crash, destroying the last remaining plant. The sheep was somehow able to survive the crash. E-I-E-I-(Annoyed Grunt) is the fifth episode of the eleventh season of The Simpsons. ... Homer Jay Simpson is a fictional character in the animated television series The Simpsons, voiced by Dan Castellaneta. ... General Name, Symbol, Number plutonium, Pu, 94 Chemical series actinides Group, Period, Block n/a, 7, f Appearance silvery white Atomic mass (244) g·mol−1 Electron configuration [Rn] 5f6 7s2 Electrons per shell 2, 8, 18, 32, 24, 8, 2 Physical properties Phase solid Density (near r. ... Ralph Wiggum is a fictional character on the animated series The Simpsons, voiced by Nancy Cartwright. ... Police Chief Clancy Wiggum (voiced by Hank Azaria) is a fictional character from the animated television series The Simpsons. ... Addiction is an uncontrollable compulsion to repeat a behavior regardless of its negative consequences. ... Laramie Cigarettes is a fictional brand of cigarettes occasionally seen on the animated TV show The Simpsons. ... Species See text. ... The Bell 206 of Canadian Helicopters Robinson Helicopter Company (USA) R44, a four seat development of the R22 A helicopter is an aircraft which is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors consisting of two or more rotor blades. ...

Real tomacco

College-level plant science courses routinely teach plant grafting techniques using Tobacco and Tomato plants, which are considered easy plants to graft due to the similar biology.

In 2003, inspired by The Simpsons, Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon successfully grafted a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant, which was possible because both plants come from the same family, Solanaceae or nightshade, and furthermore both plants are dicotyledons. (It is not possible to graft monocotyledons, because the xylem and the phloem are distributed in bundles throughout the stem, and therefore it is impossible to align the vascular tissues of the two plants.) 2003 (MMIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Rob Baur of Lake Oswego, Oregon allegedly created a tomacco in 2003 by grafting a tomato plant onto the roots of a tobacco plant. ... Flag Seal Location Location in Oregon Coordinates , Government County Clackamas County Founded 1847 Mayor Judie Hammerstad Geographical characteristics Area     City 26. ... Grafted apple tree Grafting is a method of plant propagation widely used in horticulture, where the tissues of one plant are encouraged to fuse with those of another. ... Genera Acnistus Atropa (deadly nightshade) Browallia Brugmansia (angels trumpet) Brunfelsia Calibrachoa Capsicum (sweet peppers) Cestrum Chamaesaracha Combera Crenidium Cuatresia Cyphanthera Cyphomandra Datura (jimsonweed) Hyoscyamus (henbane) Iochroma Juanulloa Lycium (boxthorn) Mandragora (mandrake) Nicandra Nicotiana (tobacco) Nierembergia or cupflower Nolana Petunia Physalis (tomatillo) Scopolia Solandra Solanum (tomato, potato, eggplant) Streptosolen Withania... Species See text Solanum is a genus of annuals, perennials, sub-shrubs, shrubs and climbers. ... Orders See text. ... Orders Base Monocots: Acorus Alismatales Asparagales Dioscoreales Liliales Pandanales Family Petrosaviaceae Commelinids: Arecales Commelinales Poales Zingiberales Family Dasypogonaceae The Monocotyledons or monocots are an extremely important group of flowering plants, dominating great parts of the earth and with many economically important plants. ... In vascular plants, xylem is one of the two types of transport tissue in plants, phloem being the other one. ... In vascular plants, phloem is the living tissue that carries organic nutrients, particularly sucrose, to all parts of the plant where needed. ...

The plant produced fruit that looked like a normal tomato, but Baur suspected that it contained a lethal amount of nicotine and thus would be inedible. Testing later proved that the leaves of the plant contained some nicotine. The world's first tomacco fruit, destroyed in the testing process, contained no nicotine. The second tomacco fruit was given to a Simpsons writer. The third was sold on eBay and the fourth was eaten by a Xerox engineer who suffered no apparent ill effects from the fruit. The Tomacco plant bore fruit until it died in October due to weather-related causes at the ripe age of 18 months, having spent the previous winter indoors. Not to be confused with Niacin, which is the oxide of Nicotine, and has a very different biological effect. ... eBay headquarters in San Jose eBay North First Street satellite office campus (home to PayPal) eBay Inc. ...

The process of making tomacco was first revealed in a 1959 Scientific American article, which stated that nicotine could be found in the tomato plant after grafting. Due to the academic and industrial importance of this breakthrough process, this article was reprinted in a 1968 textbook, Bio-Organic Chemistry, on page 170. (ISBN 0-7167-0974-0) Year 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Scientific American is a popular-science magazine, published (first weekly and later monthly) since August 28, 1845, making it the oldest continuously published magazine in the United States. ... Not to be confused with Niacin, which is the oxide of Nicotine, and has a very different biological effect. ... Binomial name Solanum lycopersicum L. Percentages are relative to US recommendations for adults. ... Divisions Green algae Chlorophyta Charophyta Land plants (embryophytes) Non-vascular plants (bryophytes) Marchantiophyta—liverworts Anthocerotophyta—hornworts Bryophyta—mosses Vascular plants (tracheophytes) †Rhyniophyta—rhyniophytes †Zosterophyllophyta—zosterophylls Lycopodiophyta—clubmosses †Trimerophytophyta—trimerophytes Pteridophyta—ferns and horsetails Seed plants (spermatophytes) †Pteridospermatophyta—seed ferns Pinophyta—conifers Cycadophyta—cycads Ginkgophyta—ginkgo Gnetophyta—gnetae Magnoliophyta—flowering plants... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday. ...

The 2004 convention of the American Dialect Society named tomacco as the new word "least likely to succeed."[1] 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• The Simpsons Archive: "E-I-E-I-(ANNOYED GRUNT)"
• Wired News: Simpsons Plant Seeds of Invention
• Simpsons Fan Grows Tomacco