Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers

• Twiglet@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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  • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ 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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    • intensely_human@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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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      • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

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

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• Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  “Does it? What’s a good dish to try?”

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  • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Corned beef hash? Colcannon? Literal Irish potatoes?

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    • Letstakealook@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      Well played, though I doubt some Israeli making genocide jokes is going to be that familiar with Irish cuisine.

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      • crashfrog@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        Everybody knows about Irish food, just like everybody’s heard of hummus

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  • jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    “I guess I don’t know. Sorry, I didn’t mean anything by it.” With a look on his face that clearly shows confusion at why you spent two whole responses about something as insignificant (in his mind) as potatoes. Everyone else probably has similar looks.

    For small talk like that you get one response on the topic. If someone said I should order potatoes because I’m Irish I’d lean so far into it, adapt an obvious accent, and say “Oh I do loove me potatoes.” If I wanted to backhand him a little I’d tack on “Except during the famine when there were no potatoes. Those were daark days” to the first statement. There’s enough humor in the accent to cover the callout mass starvation he probably unwittingly referenced.

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    • Skates@feddit.nl ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      “shouldn’t you be bombing hospitals” is better.

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      • jaycifer@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

        If you say so!

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