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crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoI’ve heard of it. It happened in the 1800’s on another continent. Can you explain what it has to do with eating potatoes?
Comment on Anon goes to dinner with coworkers
crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoI’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.
crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
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.