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crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoIrish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.
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crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 1 week agoIrish 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.