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To: SunkenCiv
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?

45 posted on 05/23/2016 10:38:44 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: colorado tanker

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


49 posted on 05/23/2016 11:22:13 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (I'll tell you what's wrong with society -- no one drinks from the skulls of their enemies anymore.)
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