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Originally posted by Tickety Boo: ↑

If I can chip in.
A disease on potatoes caused starvation across Ireland, which resulted in the massive Irish migration across the world, with resultant effects.
Where would the original Batman tv series be without all the Irish characters?
Indeed, the potato was a vegetable of social influence. Yet that bastard, the tomato, gets all the attention.
I think it is books like these that will see the humble spud rise to its true place in the spotlight of subterranean splendours.
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During the potato famine only the very wealthy could afford the Irish Mixed Grill.
Baked Potato, roast potato, boiled potato, mashed potato and chips
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