The structuring of this sentence is weird. Am I taking them with me to fight someone else, or am I fighting the one I pick? If taking with, I choose potato. Can basically grow anywhere, be made into bout a million different things, power electric things, list goes on. For one on one fighting, I choose tomato. Unless they're fried and green I think I can take em on.
Mr. House also says that cats are extinct in New Vegas. It’s not too far-fetched that different flora and fauna would exist in different parts of the country. People who have never seen a cat in their lives would probably just assume that cats went extinct.
@@silversquid1814 granted, but the Brotherhood in Fallout 4 is the same group from Fallout 3, where you can get fresh potatoes in Rivet City, kinda hard to think that with the BOS having connections with Rivet City after the main quest, wouldn't be aware of them
@@wolfmantheimpaler The scientists in Rivet City's lab describe their stock of vegetables (including the few potatoes they have) as being fragile and very expensive, which suggests that they aren't all that common. I wouldn't be surprised if all of Rivet City's potatoes are actually lab grown, and by extension incapable of being grown in the Wasteland soil itself. That said, it's possible that sometime between Fallout 3 and 4, Rivet City lost the ability to create, or simply stopped making new potatoes. Perhaps due to the existence of mutant crops that were much easier and cheaper to grow, or the demands of their scientists' new duties at Project Purity, which quickly became full time jobs and forced them to drop all other work. Either way, the fashion in which potatoes are presented in Fallout 3 gives me the impression that they were on the verge of extinction anyway, so something happening in the 10 year gap to finish the job isn't all that unreasonable to me.
I wonder if the pastor discovering the plants pollinating eachother is a reference to Mendel, another priest, and his pea plant crosbreeding experiments that helped him discover the way genetic inheritence works
@@Kris-wo4pjkinda like mole rat it easy to get but it taste horrible except a bandit found out how to make mole rat good maybe someone can find a way to make a tato taste good
@@gameuniverse5973 that's a good point, another parallel could be that certain pufferfish that if prepared incorrectly could kill someone, but if done right it's a delicacy
I feel like the solution to the Tato’s taste issue is similar to the Potato’s taste issue. You gotta cook the damn thing or else you’re eating raw starches which are usually pretty disgusting.
you can graft tomato and potato plants, they are both in the same family. the nightshade(a deadly poisonous family) family also included eggplants and nightshade weeds
We did that in a college horticulture class. It's more of a joke than anything, but you learn some skills in doing it. And at least in those days the plants got a lot of attention, but they didn't ever do very well. May be different now.
One of my favourite parts of the fallout series is the little notes and backstory as well as connections and references to the other games. Also I can’t believe the common tato has such a deep backstory
I always wondered what the damned things were every time I get Im sitting there looking at them trying to figure it out always changing between tomato and potato
To be honest, Tatos make sense because Potatoes and Tomatoes are related. Issue with Potatoes we eat the root not the fruit, but Tomatoes we eat the fruit not the root. Reason for this is Tomatoes and Potatoes are in the Nightshade family, which is renown for being toxic. Potato fruit is toxic so can not be eaten, but the roots can be. Tomatoes are a rare exception in the Nightshade family similar to Eggplants in which we can eat the fruit.
There’s probably at least one hardware store somewhere in the country that has a bunch of crop plants in their little packets untouched by radiation. So once humanity picked up the pieces of civilization normal non mutated plants will come back. Oh as well as that bunker that has a specimen of every plant and animal in Greenland
The funniest part of this is that tomatoes and potatoes are actually both part of the nightshade family. So are peppers and eggplant/aubergine, for that matter
What I find strange is that a cross between a potato and tomato plant already exists. Basically the tomatoes use the potatoes as their new root system and both just vibe.
Not really related, but I planted a carrot at Taffington boathouse the other day and apparently the best farmer in the world lives there because he grew that thing in like 5 hours. I was like "Holy shit dude, I just gave you that carrot this morning! Excellent work."
My personal theory is that the tato root tubers are edible and delicious and everyone just eats the fruits because they’re above ground and easy to grow all year round
Potatoes & Tomato's are both members of the Nightshade family. Already very similar plants that could potentially pollinate one another and can certainly be Grafted onto one another
tomato-potato crosses exist IRL, called pomatos, and they're poisonous as hell cause toms and tatos both trace their lineage back to the nightshade family, so a crossover of their genes makes them poisonous
I’m curious about this because IRL there is a seed bunker that has every seed, kept in a freezer underground in the event of a “extinction event” and its 200 years after the bombs dropped so why haven’t they brought the tomato’s and potatoes back, assuming other country’s are still thriving.
They're both Nightshades, so tbh with enough genetic mutation I can see this being possible. I'd guess it would be more like a strange potato plant that also grows tomato-like berries, or a strange tomato plant that grows a potato-like root. Both "fruits" might have some qualities (flavour notes?) inherited from the other.
Tomatoes and potatoes are both in the same family, the nightshade family. And I believe the fruit of the potato is actually poisonous. However, you could theoretically get a hybrid if them due to them being in the same family, and someone else in the comments said it's called a "pomato," and wikipedia says it's a grafted plant with white potatoes on the bottom and cherry tomatoes in the top. There's also a brimato plant, which also has eggplants added to the mix and it makes brimato fruit instead of tomatoes. But in any case, no matter what happened, it's very unlikely for this fallout vegetable to actually occur due the potato being a vegetable while tomato being a fruit, botanically.
You can grow a potato and tomato plant and then cut the tops of and have a tomato plant and potato root plant but you will get 50% less tomatoes and potatoes from it since it will have double the energy demand
You can use potatos to propogate clippings. All of the old european wine root stocks died due to parasites brought over. But they just attached the vines to resistant root stock brought over fron the new world. We do this with all sorts of fruit trees to create things that would not otherwise exist. Potatoes peppers and tomatos are all nightshades.
Imo. The plants going extinct is one of the least realistic things in the game. One look at Chernobyl will show that plant life still thrives despite radioactivity. So for the bombs to make a plant go extinct they would have to directly hit every existing example of it. The ones at the edges would likey mutate. Thatvis true though. So the Tato isn't too far fetched. That is how we got ruby red grapefruit during radiation experiments, so they wouldn't all mutate badly.
Fun fact about tomatoes: almost every major language calls them "tomato" (both neolatin, slavic and saxon) except for Croatian and Chinese, and the weird case of Italian and Russian where it's called the same way "pomodoro / pomidor (помидор)" which means "golden apple" despite one being neolatin and the other one slavic. The fact is that it doesn't matter the language origin since tomatoes came in Europe very late and were usually called the same name the native Americans called it (tomatl) but since Italy and Russia had always had a fluoriscing commercial relashonship they called it the same way
Probably due to alot of pollinators being killed by radiation and their natural trails and direction messed up, some made it some didnt. Alot of people just have small Gardena with potatoes and tomatoes and whatnot. The species benefits from each other and survives and evolves into a Tato while the regular stuff becomes rare from cross breeding as most plants that survived would make it like that possibly? And what did the Fallout companies do to the plants with genetic modification like in real life ones? Seed packets and the rare plant or two may have allowed some untainted potatoes and tomatoes to continue though.
The funny thing is that potatoes and tomatoes are plants that compliment each other, and hence why they are usually planted next to each other. Potatoes keep the soil nutritious and moist for tomatoes, which tomatoes love and thrive very well in. This is because tomatoes are technically potato plants, we as humans just decided to focus on the fruits rather the roots and the potatoes grew into tomatoes. So in some ironic twist, a Fallout Tato can be possible if the genetics are just right.
the tato is probably the results of the Potato fruits (not the roots that we actually eat) pollinated some tomato plants potato fruits taste terrible have a cardboard texture and is mostly poisonous There is a real life unironically called fries and ketchup the roots are potatoes in the fruit are tomatoes since they are actually related to each other you can cross breed them
Kinda just assumed they were a mutated tomato and nothing more, also you'd think since there's fresh veg in NV people would've traded it around by the events of Fallout 4 so we'd possibly see them even there
Totato should be: potatoes grow on vines and tomatoes grow on roots. Potato taste like tomato with hint of dirt while the tomato taste like rotten potato with Ajinomoto flavoured savoury MSG taste. Both are too addictive. It may put those cocaine Cartel in poverty for not thinking this sooner.
tomato, tato, potato in a fight. who you taking?
potato, of course. the rest will be squished instantly.
Your not wrong
A tato has the illusion of a squishy tomato but actually has the toughness of a potato within. In addition, it dishes out radiation damage.
The structuring of this sentence is weird. Am I taking them with me to fight someone else, or am I fighting the one I pick? If taking with, I choose potato. Can basically grow anywhere, be made into bout a million different things, power electric things, list goes on. For one on one fighting, I choose tomato. Unless they're fried and green I think I can take em on.
Potato, 100%. It is clearly the best weapon. The other two would just turn to mush if you had to use them in a fight.
Commonwealth BOS Scribe: Potatoes and tomatoes are extinct plants.
Me getting fresh potatoes in New Vegas: Uhhhh....yeah....
Mr. House also says that cats are extinct in New Vegas.
It’s not too far-fetched that different flora and fauna would exist in different parts of the country. People who have never seen a cat in their lives would probably just assume that cats went extinct.
Locally extinct apparently
@@silversquid1814 granted, but the Brotherhood in Fallout 4 is the same group from Fallout 3, where you can get fresh potatoes in Rivet City, kinda hard to think that with the BOS having connections with Rivet City after the main quest, wouldn't be aware of them
some bad stuff happened to the potatoes during the time skip
@@wolfmantheimpaler The scientists in Rivet City's lab describe their stock of vegetables (including the few potatoes they have) as being fragile and very expensive, which suggests that they aren't all that common. I wouldn't be surprised if all of Rivet City's potatoes are actually lab grown, and by extension incapable of being grown in the Wasteland soil itself. That said, it's possible that sometime between Fallout 3 and 4, Rivet City lost the ability to create, or simply stopped making new potatoes. Perhaps due to the existence of mutant crops that were much easier and cheaper to grow, or the demands of their scientists' new duties at Project Purity, which quickly became full time jobs and forced them to drop all other work.
Either way, the fashion in which potatoes are presented in Fallout 3 gives me the impression that they were on the verge of extinction anyway, so something happening in the 10 year gap to finish the job isn't all that unreasonable to me.
I wonder if the pastor discovering the plants pollinating eachother is a reference to Mendel, another priest, and his pea plant crosbreeding experiments that helped him discover the way genetic inheritence works
Just what I was thinking ! :D
Fries that come with ketchup right off the plant. Greatest thing the wasteland brought.
It's ketchup flavored cardboard according to all the reports. Salt exists still yet apparently that doesn't help either.
@@Kris-wo4pj i wondered what would happen i i put meth on it?
@@Kris-wo4pjkinda like mole rat it easy to get but it taste horrible except a bandit found out how to make mole rat good maybe someone can find a way to make a tato taste good
@@ricardoamaris9442back to rehab with you
@@gameuniverse5973 that's a good point, another parallel could be that certain pufferfish that if prepared incorrectly could kill someone, but if done right it's a delicacy
I feel like the solution to the Tato’s taste issue is similar to the Potato’s taste issue. You gotta cook the damn thing or else you’re eating raw starches which are usually pretty disgusting.
Yeah
a raw potato is also very bad for your health xD
@@goodmusic4673no its not, the worst it can do is cause diarrhea. other than that its safe to eat
@@NikoKuehne in a survival situation diarrhea will kill you, so idk about "safe"
@@_Macho_Man_I can’t imagine dying from diarrhea that is such a mf L way to go
My favorite fallout lore, stuff that makes no sense while also making sense
I'd like to imagine that a deep fried tato would taste like French fries and ketchup.
To be fair, tatos would probably attract British people like flies.
She’s Irish but maybe that’s why Cait migrated to the Commonwealth.
Mudcrab 'n' tato
Why is potato to them but not tomato? Would they pronounce it tah-toes?
In Ireland (the place crisps orginated) we have Tayto crisps
Well, both plants exist in the nightshade family; you can actually graft a tomatoe plant to a potatoe plant and have one plant produce BOTH
you can graft tomato and potato plants, they are both in the same family. the nightshade(a deadly poisonous family) family also included eggplants and nightshade weeds
We did that in a college horticulture class. It's more of a joke than anything, but you learn some skills in doing it. And at least in those days the plants got a lot of attention, but they didn't ever do very well. May be different now.
also same genus Solanum
One of my favourite parts of the fallout series is the little notes and backstory as well as connections and references to the other games. Also I can’t believe the common tato has such a deep backstory
I always wondered what the damned things were every time I get Im sitting there looking at them trying to figure it out always changing between tomato and potato
Fallout lore: sad story’s about the end of man kind
Also fallout lore: potato plus tomato equal tato!
Thank you for this. I was wondering why all this time something that looks lake a tomato is called a "tato".
To be honest, Tatos make sense because Potatoes and Tomatoes are related. Issue with Potatoes we eat the root not the fruit, but Tomatoes we eat the fruit not the root. Reason for this is Tomatoes and Potatoes are in the Nightshade family, which is renown for being toxic. Potato fruit is toxic so can not be eaten, but the roots can be. Tomatoes are a rare exception in the Nightshade family similar to Eggplants in which we can eat the fruit.
There’s probably at least one hardware store somewhere in the country that has a bunch of crop plants in their little packets untouched by radiation. So once humanity picked up the pieces of civilization normal non mutated plants will come back. Oh as well as that bunker that has a specimen of every plant and animal in Greenland
Now we just need some tomacco to go with!
This if cooked right could be an absolute banger.
The funniest part of this is that tomatoes and potatoes are actually both part of the nightshade family. So are peppers and eggplant/aubergine, for that matter
And here I thought it was just short for tomato
They're both nightshades so cross-breeding them isn't out of the question.
I refuse to believe they didn't find a way to make a tato taste good.
What I find strange is that a cross between a potato and tomato plant already exists. Basically the tomatoes use the potatoes as their new root system and both just vibe.
They are both nightshades, so I could see them hybridizing
Not really related, but I planted a carrot at Taffington boathouse the other day and apparently the best farmer in the world lives there because he grew that thing in like 5 hours.
I was like "Holy shit dude, I just gave you that carrot this morning! Excellent work."
Tatos could be bussing in a soup with some Yao guai meat and some hubflower for seasoning
My personal theory is that the tato root tubers are edible and delicious and everyone just eats the fruits because they’re above ground and easy to grow all year round
Potatoes & Tomato's are both members of the Nightshade family. Already very similar plants that could potentially pollinate one another and can certainly be Grafted onto one another
I can't recall ever seeing a tomato in a fallout game.
I now know why my town was never happy in fallout 4… we were almost solely fed by tatos
I mean if you eat a unseasoned mash potato, its not exactly a gourmet eat by itself.
The real question is "How the hell did POTATOES go extinct?"
Every Irish person: like the chips?
Meanwhile Prince Edward Island be still growing potatoes
You say "potato" and I say
"Goddamn I miss this game"
So it’s like the setting’s equivalent to a turnip. Tastes awful, but it at least keeps you alive.
Now we need some tomacoes in fallout and we’ll be complete.
Honestly in a nuclear waste land ketchup flavored cardboard doesnt sound like much of a win but it could be literal radioactive spoiled meat
tomato-potato crosses exist IRL, called pomatos, and they're poisonous as hell cause toms and tatos both trace their lineage back to the nightshade family, so a crossover of their genes makes them poisonous
Ketchup flavored cardboard? Like burger King fries lolol
Potatoes are already peak idk what they were smoking
"Making the Tato from fallout in 100 days"
-some UA-camr-
So a Tato tastes like an In-n-out fry with ketchup 😂
funny because potato's and ketchup are a very common staple to be thrown together.
Give it enough time and wastelanders will breed tastier Totaos.
wait until you guys hear about Jet
it's also 1/4 of the ingredients needed, along with corn, mutfruit and purified water, in order to achieve UNLIMITED ADHESIVE in FO4.
I’m curious about this because IRL there is a seed bunker that has every seed, kept in a freezer underground in the event of a “extinction event” and its 200 years after the bombs dropped so why haven’t they brought the tomato’s and potatoes back, assuming other country’s are still thriving.
they are also both part of the Deadly Nightshade family
I bet it would make a pretty decent stew
Really wish they would have added Tomacco into one of the Fallouts, even if it was just a couple for a wild wasteland thing or something
I think it's a reference of the phrase: "Tomato, Tomatoe. Potato, Potatoe.
They're both Nightshades, so tbh with enough genetic mutation I can see this being possible.
I'd guess it would be more like a strange potato plant that also grows tomato-like berries, or a strange tomato plant that grows a potato-like root. Both "fruits" might have some qualities (flavour notes?) inherited from the other.
In finch farm in Fallout 4, Abigaik Finch says the word 'potato'. So maybe they aren't extinct
Tomatoes and potatoes are both in the same family, the nightshade family. And I believe the fruit of the potato is actually poisonous. However, you could theoretically get a hybrid if them due to them being in the same family, and someone else in the comments said it's called a "pomato," and wikipedia says it's a grafted plant with white potatoes on the bottom and cherry tomatoes in the top. There's also a brimato plant, which also has eggplants added to the mix and it makes brimato fruit instead of tomatoes.
But in any case, no matter what happened, it's very unlikely for this fallout vegetable to actually occur due the potato being a vegetable while tomato being a fruit, botanically.
You can grow a potato and tomato plant and then cut the tops of and have a tomato plant and potato root plant but you will get 50% less tomatoes and potatoes from it since it will have double the energy demand
finally, can make some french fries withouth ketchup to worry about
Bet they made for some bomb ass French fries
It's always a Priest
I've been saying it taaa-toe this whole time 😂
wait so im literally obama when it comes to what my people eat? Lmao
You can use potatos to propogate clippings.
All of the old european wine root stocks died due to parasites brought over. But they just attached the vines to resistant root stock brought over fron the new world.
We do this with all sorts of fruit trees to create things that would not otherwise exist.
Potatoes peppers and tomatos are all nightshades.
Imo. The plants going extinct is one of the least realistic things in the game.
One look at Chernobyl will show that plant life still thrives despite radioactivity. So for the bombs to make a plant go extinct they would have to directly hit every existing example of it.
The ones at the edges would likey mutate. Thatvis true though. So the Tato isn't too far fetched. That is how we got ruby red grapefruit during radiation experiments, so they wouldn't all mutate badly.
"outside looks like a potato, inside is brown and it tastes disgusting."
i knew it! it's tomacco.
As someone that love ketchup on my fries the tato just makes sense
Tato is a chip factory in ireland
Irl tomatoes and potatoes are from the same family solonocae which is also the family of deadly nightshsade. The more you know...
Cant have nothing good in the wasteland
I have potato and tomato plants I may try to do this and see how this monstrosity grows
Fun fact about tomatoes: almost every major language calls them "tomato" (both neolatin, slavic and saxon) except for Croatian and Chinese, and the weird case of Italian and Russian where it's called the same way "pomodoro / pomidor (помидор)" which means "golden apple" despite one being neolatin and the other one slavic.
The fact is that it doesn't matter the language origin since tomatoes came in Europe very late and were usually called the same name the native Americans called it (tomatl) but since Italy and Russia had always had a fluoriscing commercial relashonship they called it the same way
So in the tv show they mention tato fields in vault 33.
Ketchup+Potato=Bad??? The math don't math.
You say “tayto”, I say “tahto”
Have you ever eaten a raw potato? Maybe they just need to learn how to cook them
Wake me up when they add tomacco
Okay but cooked tatos should be delicious, especially in a stew
Extinct? What about the fresh fruit you find out in the fmojave
Oh God, I just thought it was a crappy-looking tomato. Those things must taste awful.
Probably due to alot of pollinators being killed by radiation and their natural trails and direction messed up, some made it some didnt. Alot of people just have small Gardena with potatoes and tomatoes and whatnot. The species benefits from each other and survives and evolves into a Tato while the regular stuff becomes rare from cross breeding as most plants that survived would make it like that possibly? And what did the Fallout companies do to the plants with genetic modification like in real life ones? Seed packets and the rare plant or two may have allowed some untainted potatoes and tomatoes to continue though.
I mean they're both relatives of the nightshade plant so it does make sense.
Raw it sounds as bad as raw potato. But if we're cooking it what's not to love?
How would fries that make their own ketchup be bad. This sounds more like tomacco.
Ketchup flavored french fries, anyone?
we need to make this real
I’ve yet to see a potato that’s brown on the inside. 🤔
Tomatoes are fruit not vegetables therefore cross-pollination with a vegetable would be extremely difficult
tato farming is easy work, cuz you dont do any of it, and dang is it a good healing source.
I wonder how much water it takes to grow normally.
The potato is not a fruit, so a true hybrid would likely grow both potatoes and tomatoes.
However, I like saying Tato, so I won't complain.
How can the potato be extinct? It exists in new vegas
add salt to it
Having a tomato or potato is great. Im slavic, we love potatoes.
But BOTH? In ONE?
No.. what have i fed my charakter the whole time?
The funny thing is that potatoes and tomatoes are plants that compliment each other, and hence why they are usually planted next to each other. Potatoes keep the soil nutritious and moist for tomatoes, which tomatoes love and thrive very well in. This is because tomatoes are technically potato plants, we as humans just decided to focus on the fruits rather the roots and the potatoes grew into tomatoes. So in some ironic twist, a Fallout Tato can be possible if the genetics are just right.
the tato is probably the results of the Potato fruits (not the roots that we actually eat) pollinated some tomato plants potato fruits taste terrible have a cardboard texture and is mostly poisonous
There is a real life unironically called fries and ketchup the roots are potatoes in the fruit are tomatoes since they are actually related to each other you can cross breed them
Guess nobody told the devs about a Tater, huh?
Kinda just assumed they were a mutated tomato and nothing more, also you'd think since there's fresh veg in NV people would've traded it around by the events of Fallout 4 so we'd possibly see them even there
tato not even close
Since when is the inside of a potato brown? This is more like tomacco
Tato in polish is variatin of father
Totato should be: potatoes grow on vines and tomatoes grow on roots. Potato taste like tomato with hint of dirt while the tomato taste like rotten potato with Ajinomoto flavoured savoury MSG taste. Both are too addictive.
It may put those cocaine Cartel in poverty for not thinking this sooner.