Greedy goblins grabbed golden apples growing in Grandma’s glowing garden. Fun little Fact about the Pomodoro Technique Pomodoro, the renowned studying method for all scholars, in italian means "Tomato". Why would a very time-focused study method be based off of a tomato? well, the inventor of this technique Francesco Cirillo developed the study method using a kitchen timer in the shape of a tomato. That means that if he had used a more conventional "egg timer" the metod would have called the UOVO technique as a bonus, can anyone the comments tell me what the beginning Tongue twister has to do with tomatoes?