• Twiglet@feddit.uk
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    1 month ago

    I guess you never heard of the potato famine then, which was a type of genocide visited upon the Irish by the British. Hence the 'sudden’jump from potatoes to bombing hospitals.

    That’s the source of potato jokes people crack about the Irish.

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      1 month ago

      I’ve heard of it. It happened in the 1800’s on another continent. Can you explain what it has to do with eating potatoes?

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        It is the link between irish people and potatoes.

        The joke wasn’t about potatoes it was about the link between irish people and potatoes.

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          Irish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.

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            1 month ago

            Because the british bought all out their food sources, subjecting them to a famine where they had to grow potatoes to survive.

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              No, the famine happened after. You’ve got it backwards.

              The famine was started because of a widespread potato blight. It’s not called the Potato Famine because that’s all they could eat; it’s called that because that’s what they couldn’t eat.