Out in Kansas, a woman in Kansas claimed she crossed a watermelon with a cherry tomato plant in her backyard garden to create a “mystery fruit”.

According to io9, Kansas woman Sherri Miller contacted her local news station yesterday to alert them to the appearance of a so-called “mystery hybrid” that had appeared in her garden of cherry tomato and watermelon plants.

The local news was on it—and baffled. News station KAKE immediately dispatched a baffled reporter to the scene to marvel at the vegetable’s appearance (very like an eggplant), muse on what it could possibly be (an eggplant), and wonder what we should call it (how about “an eggplant”?).

At some point the reporter talked to the county horticulturalist who pointed out that it looked an awful lot like he was holding a young eggplant.

Additional Reporting by Kiah Heron

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