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Anon goes to dinner with coworkers (sh.itjust.works)
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[–] 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [+] -6 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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

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  • [–] -1 points 2 years 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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