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[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz -2 points 15 hours ago

“Well, you know, Irish cuisine has a lot of potatoes in it.”

Joke fucking explained. How do you figure the guy’s going to be on the spot, exactly?

[-] Twiglet@feddit.uk 12 points 13 hours 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.

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 11 points 15 hours ago

"Does it? What's a good dish to try?"

[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours 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.

[-] Skates@feddit.nl 7 points 12 hours ago

"shouldn't you be bombing hospitals" is better.

[-] jaycifer@lemmy.world 1 points 11 hours ago

If you say so!

[-] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz 2 points 15 hours ago

Corned beef hash? Colcannon? Literal Irish potatoes?

[-] Letstakealook@lemm.ee 4 points 15 hours ago

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

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