“You can’t spell ‘automaton’ without ‘tomato’”

“You can’t spell automaton without tomato, thereby proving the tomato is evil” was posted on Twitter by Kerrie Sakura on September 7, 2010. “You can’t spell ‘Automaton’ without ‘Tomato’!” was posted on Twitter by Looney David Dalziel Back In Action on June 17, 2011.
       
“You can’t spell ‘automaton’ without ‘tomato’” was posted on Reddit—Showerthoughts on February 18, 2021.
     
         
Twitter
Kerrie Sakura
@KerrieSakura
You can’t spell automaton without tomato, thereby proving the tomato is evil.
12:36 PM · Sep 7, 2010·Osfoora for iOS
   
Twitter
Looney David Dalziel Back In Action
@PantaroP
You can’t spell “Automaton” without “Tomato”!
9:02 PM · Jun 17, 2011·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
Seano Williams
@quaint28
You can’t spell AUTOMATON without TOMATO. #damnyourevision
3:08 AM · Oct 10, 2012·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
What a Guy
@Yagathai
Well, you know what they say: You can’t spell automaton without “tomato”.
10:27 AM · Apr 22, 2013·Twitter Web Client
   
Twitter
SpAcEbUnS
@bunbain
haha, you know you can’t spell “automaton” without TOMATO! *hundreds of tomata are hurled from the audience*
1:10 PM · May 9, 2013·Twitter for Android
   
Twitter
A Cheeseburger Pillow
@CheeseBurgowski
You can’t spell “automaton” without “tomato.”
10:05 PM · Jun 6, 2013·Twitter for Android
 
Reddit—Runescape
Posted by u/Calsan December 28, 2014
You can’t spell “Automaton” without “Tomato!”
     
Twitter
Aleck-With-Ink
@KeithAlnwick
Fact: You can’t spell ‘automaton’ without ‘tomato’.
5:16 PM · Oct 6, 2018·Mobile Web (M2)
 
Twitter
Gregory Maupin
@GJMaupin
Look, like mom always said, you can’t spell “automaton” without “a tomato.”
1:47 PM · Dec 11, 2020·Twitter for iPhone
 
Reddit—Showerthoughts
Posted by u/OzBendito February 18, 2021
You can’t spell “automaton” without “tomato”
COMMENTS
E_McPlant_C-0
This sounds like something a wacky professor would say just before his robot explodes from having tomatoes in its circuits.