If you divide 55 by 5 you get 11. Add the two numbers together and you get 2. Which is the square root of 4. This is the decade it was developed.
If you turn the 55 upside down you get SS, an acronym for Super Sweet. One of the parents.
The final clue has to do with Old 55. Tom Waits...
And my time went so quickly, I went lickety-splickly out to my old '55 As I pulled away slowly, feeling so holy, God knows, I was feeling alive.
Which is how the W55 tomato developer felt at the time.
As for Ace 55. It came from the 55th tomato seed that the developer, a thief who frequented growers markets in the 40s, had up his sleeve.
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