The Irish ate potatoes not because potatoes are optimal nutrition, but because you can grow enough potatoes on a small plot to keep a family alive when the English own all the good land and you're forbidden from hunting. When the potato blight hit in 1845: 1 million dead, 1 million emigrated. "But potatoes are a whole food!" They're a survival food that kept people barely alive. The fact that an entire population depending on a single crop died en masse when that crop failed should tell you something about dietary resilience. Modern nutritionists: "The traditional Irish diet was quite healthy." The Irish who survived: "We ate potatoes because we had no other choice and many of us died."

@SamaHoole There is no logic in this post at all. Potatoes are healthier than flesh foods. Root vegetables are also superior to flesh foods when it comes to food security.

@LeftHandDagger @SamaHoole You eat nothing but potatoes and then try to survive when the potatoes are inedible.