• intensely_human@lemm.ee
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    9 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
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      9 hours ago

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

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        4 hours ago

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