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arrow-up1461arrow-down1imageAnon goes to dinner with coworkerssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 9 hours agomessage-square156fedilink
minus-squareTwiglet@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 hours agoI guess you never heard of the potato famine then, which was a type of genocide visited upon the Irish by the British. Hence the 'sudden’jump from potatoes to bombing hospitals. That’s the source of potato jokes people crack about the Irish.
minus-squarecrashfrog@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down6·3 hours agoI’ve heard of it. It happened in the 1800’s on another continent. Can you explain what it has to do with eating potatoes?
minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·54 minutes 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-up1·18 minutes agoIrish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.
I guess you never heard of the potato famine then, which was a type of genocide visited upon the Irish by the British. Hence the 'sudden’jump from potatoes to bombing hospitals.
That’s the source of potato jokes people crack about the Irish.
I’ve heard of it. It happened in the 1800’s on another continent. Can you explain what it has to do with eating potatoes?
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.