On Oct 29, 8:10*pm, "gloria.p" > wrote:
> 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.

The rich folks (English and their Irish underlings) were profiting
selling food back to Britain during the years of starvation. It's
easy to see how the IRA types would want to rid their island of the
British.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi..._gorta_Mor.jpg

Food tastes better when grown in soil fertilized by the blood of
oppressors.
>
> gloria p

--Bryan