• ruuster13@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Calm down everyone. They dug it from preferred dirt, cooked it, and seasoned it with salt and vinegar. Serving size = about a handful. Lay’s sells a product with those exact same specifications.

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            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.

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                4 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.

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

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              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.

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        3 days ago

        No, they compared dirt to Lay’s salt and vinegar chips. That’s not the same as comparing dirt to any and all said and vinegar chips.