bayush

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what may have been the most important new world crop that literally propped up irland for centuries

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ROMOS

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Potato.............................

11 years ago. Rating: 8
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country bumpkin

Please open the washing machine for me the wash cycle is complete.

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ROMOS

Bet you never thought of that when you put it on?

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country bumpkin

HA! I opened it! My fingers hurt now so you need to come home and kiss them for me.

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Tommyh

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Just plain ole spuds.

11 years ago. Rating: 7
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bustieone

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...."You can have them mashed, fried, steamed, baked, ..." (as Bubba Gump would say)

11 years ago. Rating: 6
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jhharlan

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there is no solid evidence to suggest that the pirate Walter Raleigh introduced the potato to Ireland. The notion seems to have taken hold in popular myth however. Another theory, also without substantial facts to back it up, is that they washed up with the wreckage of the Spanish Armada in 1588.
http://www.communicatescience.eu/2011/06/potato-and-walter-raleigh-never-let.html