• @Twiglet@feddit.uk
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    1110 hours ago

    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.

    • @crashfrog@sopuli.xyz
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      -610 hours ago

      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?

      • @intensely_human@lemm.ee
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        58 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.

          • Kaity
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            12 hours ago

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