James Silverton wrote:

>
> I think there is an apples/oranges comparison here. Peanut butter and
> jelly does not vary much and, as a sole diet would drive me up the wall.
> Pizza has many varieties and might keep interest somewhat longer and
> potatoes, as you say, can be prepared in many ways. A better comparison
> would be with the boiled potatoes that my Irish ancestors, perforce,
> managed to live on but I think I'd try to emigrate if I had to do that,
> as my ancestors did.
>



I have always read that the Irish emigrated because of a widespread
potato blight that resulted in "the great potato famine", not from a
surfeit of boiled potatoes.

gloria p