An article that appeared in the New Scientist, a magazine, boasted about the first plant-animal hybrid called the biomate. It was a tomato with genes from a cow. As a result, the biomate had “tough leathery skin” and grew “discus-shaped” with animal protein in between outer layers of tomato.
Most people didn’t believe this invention, but a Brazilian science magazine didn’t quite get the joke and ran a feature a few weeks later.