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.
Irish cuisine has a lot of potato dishes. Because they were cultivating potatoes.
I’ve heard of it. It happened in the 1800’s on another continent. Can you explain what it has to do with eating potatoes?
Hummus is not particularly unique to Israel.
Potatoes aren’t even native to Ireland.
People pretty generally know that the Irish cook with potatoes, as a result of the Potato Famine and the resulting Irish diaspora. People are extremely likely to have interacted with people whose name and descent are Irish.
Everybody knows about Irish food, just like everybody’s heard of hummus
Is every use of the word “potato” a reference to famine in the 1800’s?
Corned beef hash? Colcannon? Literal Irish potatoes?
Can you explain how the joke references “a genocide”?
“Well, you know, Irish cuisine has a lot of potatoes in it.”
Joke fucking explained. How do you figure the guy’s going to be on the spot, exactly?
He had every right to be angry about a famine
A famine in 1845? Caused by Irish reliance on monocrop agriculture?
Why would any living person in 2024 have a right to be “angry” about a joke that barely refers to it?
Sure; an important part of this context is that the Irish bombed more hospitals than the Israelis have