• crashfrog
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    3 months ago

    Irish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.

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      3 months ago

      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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        3 months ago

        No, the famine happened after. You’ve got it backwards.

        The famine was started because of a widespread potato blight. It’s not called the Potato Famine because that’s all they could eat; it’s called that because that’s what they couldn’t eat.