Quote Originally Posted by Burney View Post
Monoculture, innit.

Also, large numbers of people starved to death on a tiny island where you're never very far from the sea. This tells you what you need to know about the adventurous palate of the average Irish
They also starved to death in a country awash with food which tells you all you need to know about British rule.

Interestingly, the corn that Peel imported was so alien to the tenant farmer Irish that they didnt know how to cook it and their stomachs couldn't cope with it. Weakened by hunger and desease, it actually killed quite a few of them.