[colorado tanker]

In his History of England, Macaulay basically devotes a chapter to his opinion that societies who eat bread as their staple starch are much more civilized than societies who eat potatoes dug out of the ground for heaven's sake. Which is one very important reason why the English were destined to rule over those benighted potato eating Irish.

It's an interesting if not amusing window into the English attitude. It also makes the Irish revolt against English rule quite understandable. You are entitled to occupy my country because I eat potatoes, really?

[SunkenCiv]

And, the Irish didn’t eat potatoes when the Cavanaugh dynasty invited the Normans over in the 11th century.