• @[email protected]
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    92 months 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.

      • Kaity
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        42 months ago

        Because the british bought all out their food sources, subjecting them to a famine where they had to grow potatoes to survive.

        • @[email protected]
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          -12 months 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.