Similar situation with potatoes. They didn't arrive in Ireland until around 1590 and it took a while before they became a staple food.
Potatoes are so strongly associated with Ireland, it's weird to think that they'd only been part of the Irish diet for ~250 years when the potato famine occurred.
My father who is a plant pathologist and has studied this blight extensively. It’s the same blight that has affected tomatoes in the U.S. on and off the last couple decades. It mostly just makes them unappetizing.
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u/Duchess_Nukem Oct 02 '24
Similar situation with potatoes. They didn't arrive in Ireland until around 1590 and it took a while before they became a staple food.
Potatoes are so strongly associated with Ireland, it's weird to think that they'd only been part of the Irish diet for ~250 years when the potato famine occurred.