• crashfrog@sopuli.xyz
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    3 months ago

    No, the famine happened after. You’ve got it backwards.

    The famine was started because of a widespread potato blight. It’s not called the Potato Famine because that’s all they could eat; it’s called that because that’s what they couldn’t eat.