It's the 1950s and California has a problem.

Actually, they have three problems.

First, there aren't enough laborers willing to work cheap enough to harvest all the tomatoes.

Second, the machine they built to harvest the tomatoes crushes them instead.

And third, spherical tomatoes, ripe red round tomatoes, are a pain in the neck. They roll around on the conveyor belt.

They're difficult to slice, to make perfect slices

for the fast food nation that was being built.

So Jack Hanna at UC Davis got to work. He created VF 145, otherwise known as The Square Tomato.

Not a perfect cube, but a lot more square than a typical tomato.

Easy to harvest, easy to slice, easy to sort. Who cares that it didn't taste that good?

Hey, it's Seth, and this is a Kimbo.

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