No potatoes doesn’t kill an Irishman, but Queen Victoria endorsing Charles Trevelyan’s laisse-faire policies of “continuing food exports and limiting aid to fellow subjects because depopulating Ireland was God’s will” did.
Well they will never learn anything if you give them handouts after their crop failures, what not with us shipping all their other food they grow elsewhere. /s
It’s amazing the language used, is exactly like the heartless politicians now taking away food stamps and medicaid and the like.
The actual blight/parasite that caused the potato famine from what I’ve seen looked a lot different, it was more like the whole thing would be rotted out and slimey on the inside due to worms chewing around in there.
Although I may be mixing up several different potato famines.
My Irish half just shuddered.
My favourite great hunger joke:
How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?
None.
No potatoes doesn’t kill an Irishman, but Queen Victoria endorsing Charles Trevelyan’s laisse-faire policies of “continuing food exports and limiting aid to fellow subjects because depopulating Ireland was God’s will” did.
Well they will never learn anything if you give them handouts after their crop failures, what not with us shipping all their other food they grow elsewhere. /s
It’s amazing the language used, is exactly like the heartless politicians now taking away food stamps and medicaid and the like.
Now tell one about Gaza
How many Palestinians does Israel need to “defend” itself?
The actual blight/parasite that caused the potato famine from what I’ve seen looked a lot different, it was more like the whole thing would be rotted out and slimey on the inside due to worms chewing around in there.
Although I may be mixing up several different potato famines.
My Irish everything instinctively shivered.
Even your timbers?
Especially me timbers…