[- NEWS -] Simpsons Plant Seeds of Invention

[Kn'thrak]

After a Simpsons episode featured a tomato-tobacco hybrid, a wacky scientist decides to make "tomacco" in real life. Remarkably, it worked. By Kristen Philipkoski.

Wired

[wirm]

That was one of the funnier episodes that I remember.

[streetpreacher]

hm, last week i tried tobacco ice-cream at a restaurant. didn't taste bad at all, although it was a bit strong for an ice-cream but i could get used to it

[sukhdeep1986]

tobacco ice cream eh? is that like cigarettes...but creamy and cold?

[streetpreacher]

hm, yes, a bit like that but not as strong as cigarettes

[Matt]

Another easy method to get cancer. I pity you.

[streetpreacher]

i dont think i could get cancer from that ice-cream. i guess i would need to eat several pounds of it everyday to have the same concentration as one cigarette. i guess passive smoking is much more dangerous than eating one ball of tabacco ice cream every few months

[Jake]

Yeah, that episode was funny,

So anyway did the Ice cream -"taste like grandma"?

[streetpreacher]

Originally posted by Jake
So anyway did the Ice cream -"taste like grandma"?

i never heard that comparison before, but i hope i know what you mean
it's a bit unusual at the beginning, since i only ate ice cream before that was only sweet i would say it first tastes like vanilla and after a while there's a light tobacco taste coming through. it tasted like smoking a cigarette but much lighter and better (maybe i like it better, because i usually don't smoke)

[Jake]

During the Simpsons episode with Tomacco, Chief Wiggum's son - Ralph eats one tomacco and say "it tastes like grandma"(he's famous for making stupid comments) then Wiggum takes a bite and say "you're right, it does taste like grandma" then he turns to Homer and say s he'll buy the whole basket of tomacco