Primis
Since: Nov, 2010
#2: Jan 28th 2021 at 8:30:20 PM
Tomato Surprise has this in its description:
The trope name comes from a set of writer's guidelines distributed circa 1980 by Asimov's Science Fiction magazine, written by its then-editor, George Scithers. The guidelines named the trope and gave as one of the examples hiding the fact that the hero is, in fact, a tomato.
The others are presumably named in reference to Tomato Surprise.
IsaacsLaughing
Since: Feb, 2015
#3: Jan 29th 2021 at 6:34:31 AM
facepalm Thank you... ^^;
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Was looking through Tomato in the Mirror, Tomato Surprise, and Everyone Is a Tomato and kept having to wonder what the tomato metaphor itself means and where it came from. None of those pages explain it.