🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 day agoAnon goes to dinner with coworkerssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square203fedilinkarrow-up1781arrow-down124
arrow-up1757arrow-down1imageAnon goes to dinner with coworkerssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 1 day agomessage-square203fedilink
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·18 hours agoIt is the link between irish people and potatoes. The joke wasn’t about potatoes it was about the link between irish people and potatoes.
minus-squarecrashfrog@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down4·17 hours agoIrish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.
minus-squareKaity@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 hours agoBecause the british bought all out their food sources, subjecting them to a famine where they had to grow potatoes to survive.
minus-squarecrashfrog@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·7 hours agoNo, 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.
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.
Irish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.
Because the british bought all out their food sources, subjecting them to a famine where they had to grow potatoes to survive.
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.