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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I seem to remember there being issues historically with poor people relying on potatoes as their food source

[–] Chriswild 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A lot of that was also the British taking Irish food supplies.

[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No way. The British would never take anything from someone else

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago

It is not stealing if you declared it your land 50 years ago.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah being on the genocide list of the English had more to do with that than the taters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

(Note to the reader: they can be boiled, mashed, or simply added without ceremony to a pre-existing stew)