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martyb
on Thursday July 26 2018, @12:52PM
from the can-you-make-soda-bread-using-potatoes? dept.
from the can-you-make-soda-bread-using-potatoes? dept.
TheJournal.ie reports:
Because of poor weather most spring crops were planted between 6 and 8 weeks later than normal.
Farmers were banking on a perfect growing season for these crops to achieve a normal yield, however the drought set in shortly after planting and many crops have received almost no rain since they were placed in the ground.
Total cereal production is set to drop by 27% while, with production set to fall by a staggering 58%, the worst performing crop is forecast to be wheat planted in the spring.
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Irish Cereal Harvest is Forecast to be the Worst in 24 Years
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(Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:06PM (23 children)
They can always rely on the potato.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:14PM (19 children)
P-P-POTATO... noooooo u beat me to it. Now I must live in famine.
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(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:23PM (2 children)
Somebody had to get there first. The Irish are the blacks of Europe - will not STFU about atrocities committed over one and a half centuries ago either.
(Score: 3, Interesting) by Nuke on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:50PM (1 child)
Only one and a half centuries? At least three and a half : Oliver Cromwell's campaigns in Ireland are still a major issue.
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2622/3752500289_a58b079324.jpg [flickr.com]
(Score: -1, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:29PM
Oliver Cromwell's campaigns? The Confederate War (attempt to create a Gaelic ethnostate) predated the arrival of the New Model Army.
(Score: 1) by oldmac31310 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:18PM (15 children)
I'm Irish. I'm feeling a bit sensitive today. So why don't you and I step outside so that I can tear your stupid head off and shit down your throat. Hmmm?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:23PM
I've already had a better offer but thanks all the same.
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:25PM
Rambutt Mac has spoken! Now, you oughtta sit down and be quiet before we send a True Scotsman over to settle your belligerent ass.
(Score: 3, Funny) by takyon on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:32PM (12 children)
FTFY
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(Score: 2, Touché) by oldmac31310 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:40PM (11 children)
Not in the least, you bigotted turd.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:00PM (5 children)
Perhaps a pint of stout would help you reflect on the fact that English peasants were historically treated no better than the Irish.
(Score: 1) by oldmac31310 on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:48PM (4 children)
Actually, not a fair comparison. Look instead at the potato famine that occurred simultaneously all across northern Europe, extending all the way to Russia. Why make fun of such a terrible loss of life that could have been prevented if it weren't for the 'laissez faire' policies the big wigs of the time thought such a good way to handle things? Or the multiple famines in India in the 19th century? The British were complicit in the deaths of countless millions. As were the Poles, Russians etc.
(Score: 2, Touché) by Sulla on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:34PM
Because thats how humans respond to crisis.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:02PM
Correct
As dreadful as that was, alternatives for Ireland could have been worse. [bbc.co.uk]
For the same reason Jews make jokes about the Holocaust [theconversation.com] and Ukrainians about the Holodomor.
(Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Thursday July 26 2018, @09:19PM (1 child)
This is true. In fact my own ancestors were tenant farmers in Devon and during the 1830's were basically starved off the land by their landlord.
Luckily for them, they were accepted as settlers by the New Zealand company and granted 50 acres at the new colony of New Plymouth [wikipedia.org]
There are couple of errors in the Wikipedia article, but the broad outline is correct.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @12:28AM
It was a blight and the absentee landowners insisted on eating and profiting -- the Irish landowners were not all protestant. Ireland had reached an unsustainable population density. [wesleyjohnston.com] We will see the same awful situation unfold again in Africa and will be in no position to help this time either. Reality is horrific and gallows humor is a common mechanism for coping with it.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:01PM (4 children)
I apologize. Never again will I accuse an Irishman of sobriety. 🍀🍻
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(Score: 1) by oldmac31310 on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:52PM (3 children)
And I'll never count on your being what I thought was one of the reasonable personalities on this blighted site.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:25PM
Oh, I thought we were having fun here. My mistake.
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(Score: 4, Funny) by bob_super on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:14PM (1 child)
>>>>> I'm feeling a bit sensitive today.
Somebody should have clearly stated they were grumpy as hell.
The post about a Japan heat wave already has two Hiroshima jokes. Maybe you're overreacting to tastelessness, which is indeed a problem when dealing with potatoes.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:47PM
> ... tastelessness, which is indeed a problem when dealing with potatoes.
My solution is a small pat of butter and a good teaspoon of curry powder (+/- to taste) on a baked potato -- mash together, yummy!
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:34PM (2 children)
> They can always rely on the potato.
I am reminded of when the vice president said to put the E on the end of potato?
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:07PM (1 child)
why?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @08:50AM
50 point bonus for using all seven letters in scrabble.
(Score: 0, Redundant) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:18PM (8 children)
on me lucky charms
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Thursday July 26 2018, @01:50PM (5 children)
Honeycomb's big. Yeah, yeah, yeah! It's not small. No, no, no!.
Twinkies don't go bad for at least one quarter of a galactic rotation. Grow genetically modified and cross bread cereal. Cross breed cereal with twinkies so that the lucky charms harvest is as good as the twinkie harvest.
To get a good grant, also explore the possibility of cross breeding cereal with Big Macs, to get harvests as good as the Big Mac harvest.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:26PM (4 children)
So, what are you suggesting? Should we break into that seed archive, to get some Honeycomb seed and Twinkie seed for the Irish?
(Score: 4, Interesting) by DannyB on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:35PM (3 children)
Okay, here's a solution. Didn't we just recently read an SN story about the US having an over supply of meat?
While I would support open air outdoor storage of huge piles of that meat next to PETA offices, we could also gift some to the Irish.
When trying to solve a problem don't ask who suffers from the problem, ask who profits from the problem.
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Thursday July 26 2018, @02:56PM
This is just too funny. I was told, by an AC, that I need more fiber in my diet. https://soylentnews.org/comments.pl?sid=26797&cid=713127 [soylentnews.org] Now, you want to deprive the Irish of their fiber, by shipping them mountains of protein. Funny how stuff just flows along on SN.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:22PM
The "oversupply" of meat sounds a lot like the "undersupply" of tech workers.
In older times we called this "price fixing".
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:22PM
(Score: 2) by Alfred on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:25PM
(Score: 2) by requerdanos on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:52PM
Frosted Lucky Charms, while arguably Magically Delicious, are, contrary to popular North American belief, not produced by a process of "Irish cereal harvest." This is a false alarm about people and foods in Ireland.
Speaking of which, Irish Girl Tries Lucky Charms For The First Time [youtube.com].
(Score: 5, Funny) by Thexalon on Thursday July 26 2018, @03:20PM
Just switch from growing cereals to potatoes. What could possibly go wrong?
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Sulla on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:31PM
Fortunately the modest proposal from to legalize abortion just passed.
Ceterum censeo Sinae esse delendam
(Score: 5, Insightful) by stretch611 on Thursday July 26 2018, @04:36PM (1 child)
just send them some meat.... https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/07/26/0054221 [soylentnews.org]
Now with 5 covid vaccine shots/boosters altering my DNA :P
(Score: 1) by Coward, Anonymous on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:22PM
Yeah, chalk one up for trade and credit. They can borrow money, buy food from somewhere else, and live to tell about it without adding a chapter of misery to their history books.
(Score: 2) by JoeMerchant on Thursday July 26 2018, @05:55PM
I guess this means that the "Steel Cut Irish Oats" at the market will be doing some creative rewording of their labels soon...
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(Score: 2) by Freeman on Thursday July 26 2018, @06:21PM
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/1080 [gutenberg.org]
For you audiophiles:
https://librivox.org/a-modest-proposal-by-jonathan-swift/ [librivox.org]
Joshua 1:9 "Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the Lord thy God is with thee"
(Score: 3, Informative) by istartedi on Thursday July 26 2018, @08:17PM (2 children)
All of Europe is experiencing agricultural challenges [theguardian.com] this year.
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 26 2018, @11:12PM (1 child)
Some worse than others:
"The rye harvest will probably drop by half and the wheat harvest by a third from last year. This is the third consecutive poor harvest year in Finland. [www.luke.fi]"
"The acreage for Finnish rye crops has diminished year on year, with almost half as much planted this year than in 2017. [yle.fi]"
Whether caused by rain, drought, or asphalt, once every country is out of food at the same time there will be nothing to import or export to make up the differences.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 27 2018, @08:28PM
So that's the Vodka, Whisky and Scotch... Then there was the beer a few month ago... We're but a bad corn harvest, aka Bourbon, away from losing our sobriety and facing reality.
No wonder they're legalizing pot.