• freagle@lemmy.ml
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        3 days ago

        FYI Ireland didn’t choose to be a potato monoculture, it was forced on them by the British. The famine that hit them was collateral damage from the British subjugation of Ireland in an attempt to maximize profit through cash cropping, displacing the agriculture that the Irish had been using to feed themselves.

          • inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world
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            3 days ago

            🚨 🚨 wee-woo wee-woo 🚨 🚨

            Your joke has been assessed and approve as factually accurate. Don’t let it happen again.

            This has been the joke police.

      • Fedizen@lemmy.world
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        3 days ago

        Ireland has only had taters for 400 years and the famine was caused by british landlords.

        • Captain_Buddha@lemmy.world
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          3 days ago

          Two different people brought up the potato famine… not what I was trying to bring up with my simpleton joke. I went with a country that, rightfully, enjoy potatoes and are known to.

          I don’t think tubers=tumors. They’re delicious.