🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 2 months agoAnon goes to dinner with coworkerssh.itjust.worksimagemessage-square189fedilinkarrow-up1928arrow-down127
arrow-up1901arrow-down1imageAnon goes to dinner with coworkerssh.itjust.works🍹Early to RISA 🧉@sh.itjust.worksM to Greentext@sh.itjust.works · 2 months agomessage-square189fedilink
minus-squareTwiglet@feddit.uklinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·2 months 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.
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minus-squareintensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months 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.
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minus-squareKaity@leminal.spacelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 months 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-down2·edit-22 months agoRemoved by mod
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.
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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.
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Because the british bought all out their food sources, subjecting them to a famine where they had to grow potatoes to survive.
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