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Twiglet@feddit.uk 1 week agoI 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.
crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 week 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?
intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 week 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.
crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 week ago
Irish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.
Kyatto@leminal.space 1 week ago
Because the british bought all out their food sources, subjecting them to a famine where they had to grow potatoes to survive.