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[-] intensely_human@lemm.ee 6 points 12 hours 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 -2 points 11 hours ago

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

[-] Kyatto@leminal.space 2 points 6 hours 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 1 points 1 hour 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.

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