• crashfrog@sopuli.xyz
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        23 hours ago

        Is every use of the word “potato” a reference to famine in the 1800’s?

        • gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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          16 hours ago

          the joke was in reference to the irish potato famine which was caused by the uk subsidising the export of food in ireland so potatoes were literally the only thing they were able to eat because the british would force them to hand over everything else

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              2 hours ago

              By using the concepts “potato” and “Irish”

              The only reason those concepts are linked is because potato was the emergency food during the period during which England was trying to kill all Irish people

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          21 hours ago

          OK, so there’s something called “context”, which in this case is the person being questioned being Irish.
          All Europeans eats potatoes so singling out the Irish in this way means you are referencing the famine.