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Rural/Farm Life

fasttense

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1. I had no idea the taste of the potato was sometimes not very pleasant.

Reply to farminator3000 (Original post)

Fri Mar 22, 2013, 05:47 AM

Mar 2013

Imagine all those people surviving on one scrappy, and bad tasting, potato.

But the Great Famine was caused by more than just a potato blight. Laissez-faire capitalism, much like "free" trade economics, killed as many people as the blight.

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