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Anon goes to dinner with coworkers (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 months ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] gwen@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

the joke was in reference to the irish potato famine which was caused by the uk subsidising the export of food in ireland so potatoes were literally the only thing they were able to eat because the british would force them to hand over everything else

[–] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz -3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

How does the joke reference that?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

By using the concepts "potato" and "Irish"

The only reason those concepts are linked is because potato was the emergency food during the period during which England was trying to kill all Irish people

[–] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz -5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That’s an insane misapprehension of the potato famine

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You, who needed an explanation on how a joke about Irish and potatoes was offensive, are an expert on the famine?

[–] crashfrog@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 months ago

I don’t think you have to be an expert to know that the Irish Potato Famine wasn’t a situation where potato’s were all there were to eat. I think you just have to be someone who didn’t fail out in the 5th grade.