• Soup@lemmy.world
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        23 days ago

        Probably funny to a younger Irishman but also remember that the Irish grew plenty of food but it was the English who took it away from them despite the fact that potatoes, one of the few things they were left with to eat, were experiencing a blight. The joke/story is often portrayed as the Irish learning aboit potatoes from the Americas and going all-in like the entire culture just went feral for the things and had a monocrop but that wasn’t at all what happened. It wasn’t about whether or not they liked potatoes and more a matter of what the English would even let them eat after stealing all their food.

        I wasn’t making a lot of Irish potatoe jokes before but I straight up stopped after learning that. The English did some pretty fucked up things in Ireland.

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    23 days ago

    “Oh fuck, rocks?! That’s right, let’s try rocks next. Duh!”

    -Rocket scientist, caked in blood and potato debris

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    23 days ago

    So where are they making these bricks? In space? Why do you need bricks… In space?

    It would take effort and time, but surely there are far more efficient ways to make bricks on like Mars considering the vast amount of water that’s been discovered.