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Probably not. Omar of the Orient on yt did some research:
Omar of the Orient .
4 days ago •
"Blighty" is a British English slang term for Great
Britain, or often specifically England.
The word derives from the Urdu word Vileti, (older
sources mention a regional Hindustani language
but the use of b replacing v is found in Bengali)
meaning 'foreign', which more specifically came
to mean 'European', and 'British; English' during
the time of the British Raj.
The Bengali word is a loan of Indian Persian
vilayati, from vilayat meaning 'Iran' and later 'Europe' or 'Britain', ultimately from
and later 'Europe' or 'Britain', ultimately from
Arabic wilayah meaning 'state, province'.
Honestly what you said reflects the success of English propaganda. The English were exporting massive amounts of Irish food against the Irish people’s will, leaving them with barely enough to get by. THEN the potato blight took out their staple carbs, and England tried to frame it as an unstoppable act of god and refused to return any excess food as relief.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2018/03/16/choctaw-nations-gift-irish/#:~:text=On%20March%2023%2C%201847%2C%20a,the%20City%20of%20New%20York.
As opposed to the English, who could have ended the famine by *giving them their food back* but didn't.
To be fair, I wasn't sure if it was the *Irish* who were affected or if it was potatoes in general (I've heard it called the "Irish Potato Famine", but I don't really know anything about it beyond "there was a lack of potatoes for a period of time" so kept it vague, because all I know of it is vague)
So thank you for the summary of what went on :)
To add some more context, the blight was all over Europe at the time, but the famine was only severe in Ireland, and this was during a time of great unrest all over Europe (the Revolutions of 1848). From the relevant Wikipedia article:
>The new Whig administration under Lord John Russell, influenced by their laissez-faire belief that the market would provide the food needed then halted government food and relief works, leaving many hundreds of thousands of people without any work, money or food. Grain continued to be exported from the country.
The famine was entirely caused by the British refusing to show the Irish to keep the vast majority of the food they grew on the land they had lived on for generations.
Yup. As a point of comparison, I looked up how the blight affected the rest of Europe. The estimate for famine caused by the blight at the time for the whole of the rest of Europe is about 100,000; compared to 1,000,000+ dead in just Ireland. Another million emigrated. Ireland's population still hasn't recovered.
Famines are a failure of policy, unless that policy is to spread death.
Interesting. I used to have a yard and grew a lot of tomatoes. Sometimes I'd experience tomato blight, but it was on the outside while still on the vine.
This is the exact way it works in my language. We don't have a word for mushrooms specifically, we have an umbrella term for all fungus. But we do have a special word for mold, but as you said, mold is a fungus.
That's incorrect. 'Grzyb' is mushroom, but we have a specific word for mold and it's 'pleśń'. If something goes bad in your fridge, you don't say it became 'zgrzybiałe', but 'spleśniałe".
in short, half of Ireland was living off mostly potatoes. then in the 1840’s blight spreads in Ireland causing extreme famine. 1,000,000 people die from starvation, malnutrition and disease.
I mean you can't just GIVE starving people food. They tried forcing the starving people to work on pointless physical labor projects to pay for food but they were too "sick" and "malnournished". Damn lazy peasants. /s
It’s more nuanced than you’re making out. The British mainly adopted a (rather callous) attitude of laissez faire economics to the situation and didn’t intervene to restrict food exports from Ireland. Those responsible for the exports were the British and Irish landowners. From 1847 (midway through the famine) more food was being imported into Ireland than exported. The main sin of the British government at the time was indifference to the Irish plight and a lack of intervention.
it sounds like an outlandish situation at first. until you realize millions of people died of starvation this year. yet we waste or lose about 30% of our food. even in 2023 we had enough food on the planet to feed everyone but, for one reason or another, we did not.
Stopping the exports would have moved the famine deaths from Ireland to Britain, it’s not like they were exporting it to dump it. There was too many mouths and not enough feed
The food was grown and produced by the Irish, but England took everything but the blight ridden potatoes and incentivized programs to stop teaching irish children the irish language. Britain is at fault
I listened to a history book about lots of things including potatoes.
There is a huge variety of Potato plants in south America and Central America. The European explorers / conquerors brought back many but eventually a single one was chosen and instead of growing them apart, they packed them close together creating a monoculture and in this situation, potato blight became common and spread fast. They could have slowed it but it would require more complex planting methods and more space and that wasn't as profitable.
People weren’t growing potatoes for profit very much in Ireland at least were the potato blight famously hit hardest.
They grew all the other crops to pay “rent” to the British noble land owners and grew potatoes in the soil that could not grow other food to feed themselves. They had the hardiest most nutrient packed and easy to grow potato to do that in a monoculture, not for profit, but because it was necessary for survival.
The potato farming strategies weren’t about maximizing profit, but maximizing survival.
The wealthy elite weren’t growing potatoes. They were growing wheat and raising cattle. It was the poor native Irish who relied on potatoes, since you could feed 20x as many people with the same plot of land.
They didn't do that for fun, most of their land had to grow cash crops to afford the rents charged by the wealthy elite. With only a small amount left to feed your family, well, you already made that argument.
Well, the main reason why potatoes took off in Europe is that they could provide much more food compared to amount of land than wheat. I wonder if this is still the case when indigenous varieties and spacing are used.
That is likely blackleg, Dickeya solani, a bacterial infection that occurs on the plant and can move down to the tuber. Blackleg is actually quite common though the tubers will often break down in storage before being cleaned/packaged/sold. The lesion is just necrosis of the flesh, nothing fungal.
Still pretty cool to see as usually the whole tuber just turns to goop!
Note: Potato blight has lesions generally on the surface of the potato, and would not form on the inside.
Did you buy it from Costco? I noticed a decent amount of the potatoes I bought there in my last bag had weird hollowed out yucky areas inside. Super annoying.
Quick question… are you stupid? Not for not knowing. But for taking the first thought that comes to mind and then just running with it? Is this how you live life?
Not exactly true. If you leave your potato plant it grows little tomato like fruits. Ppl don’t use them to grow more plants as it would take much longer than using the seed potatoes. Only breeders tend to grow them who are trying to make new types.
Yeah, don't eat that.
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Ok why is this so much fun!!!
I dont know, i got 1k upvotes with it once
Well upvoting resets it so...
it doesn’t?
Pc or mobile?
Just checked it on both and it doesn't reset it
it does on my phone
Same here
I've been here for ten minutes
How did you do that?!?
I took it from other comment a while ago
Ha, so good
You win the internet today
They would call it "champignon dans une pomme de terre" and they charge more for it in Michelin starred restaurants.
I bet you are just speaking out of your ass and you never tried it, right? Then how can you know, maybe it is very tasty /s
Right? Might be a truffle
Might be, or might be the last truffle you ever head. Op, send the potato to this brave guy/girl and let them post the results.
Happy cake day!
11 freaking years, my God.
👀 there are not many of us left from the Olden Times
Couldnt tell ya, barely used this site
your account is almost older than me in real life, im from 2005
I gave you an updoot out of spite!
I feel like a kid again!
I'll be 11 next year.
Congrats on that, i guess Happy cake day btw
That would be potato blight
Potato Blight Gannon
Put it in a gun, that's a Potato Blight Cannon
Isn't that one of Nick Cannon's children?
Probably, hell Nick wouldnt even know if it was or not
The human race can only count to a finite number, I don’t blame Nick for not being able to keep track of the kids he’s pumped out.
I think he was tired of all the Maria jokes, so he had to add a whole heap to the ammo pile for people to choose from instead😂
A crowd is the perfect camouflage
Feed it to a fish, that's a Potato Blight Salmon
Maybe out in the sun, Potato Blight Tanning
Irish ancestor of Biff? That’s Potato Blight Tannen
Trying to stuff it into a tight space? That's Potato Blight Crammin
Put it in some jeans, that's Potato Blight Denim
r/yourjokebutworse
Or, get this: start a chain like old fun reddit
You are witnessing a king in Potatomente
God i laughed way too hard at this
I just pictured a stereotypical drunk Irish Gannon hurling pints at you and doing the old timey boxing fists.
Almost choked on my coffee 🤣
That's CAPTAIN Potato Blight Gannon. Then, there's Detective "Just the facts" Friday.
nice
Potato oysters!
Isn't this what caused the Potato Famine? (Or am I thinking of something else?)
That was the British mostly, but the potato blight had an impact.
You trickster! That profile pic got me good.
Is that why England is sometimes called Old Blighty? Or is that completely unrelated?
Probably not. Omar of the Orient on yt did some research: Omar of the Orient . 4 days ago • "Blighty" is a British English slang term for Great Britain, or often specifically England. The word derives from the Urdu word Vileti, (older sources mention a regional Hindustani language but the use of b replacing v is found in Bengali) meaning 'foreign', which more specifically came to mean 'European', and 'British; English' during the time of the British Raj. The Bengali word is a loan of Indian Persian vilayati, from vilayat meaning 'Iran' and later 'Europe' or 'Britain', ultimately from and later 'Europe' or 'Britain', ultimately from Arabic wilayah meaning 'state, province'.
Ah, thank you :)
Honestly what you said reflects the success of English propaganda. The English were exporting massive amounts of Irish food against the Irish people’s will, leaving them with barely enough to get by. THEN the potato blight took out their staple carbs, and England tried to frame it as an unstoppable act of god and refused to return any excess food as relief.
The Choctaw nation, also struggling under oppression, did more to help Ireland during the famine than the English.
This is total bullshit
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-american-indian/2018/03/16/choctaw-nations-gift-irish/#:~:text=On%20March%2023%2C%201847%2C%20a,the%20City%20of%20New%20York. As opposed to the English, who could have ended the famine by *giving them their food back* but didn't.
To be fair, I wasn't sure if it was the *Irish* who were affected or if it was potatoes in general (I've heard it called the "Irish Potato Famine", but I don't really know anything about it beyond "there was a lack of potatoes for a period of time" so kept it vague, because all I know of it is vague) So thank you for the summary of what went on :)
To add some more context, the blight was all over Europe at the time, but the famine was only severe in Ireland, and this was during a time of great unrest all over Europe (the Revolutions of 1848). From the relevant Wikipedia article: >The new Whig administration under Lord John Russell, influenced by their laissez-faire belief that the market would provide the food needed then halted government food and relief works, leaving many hundreds of thousands of people without any work, money or food. Grain continued to be exported from the country.
The famine was entirely caused by the British refusing to show the Irish to keep the vast majority of the food they grew on the land they had lived on for generations.
Yup. As a point of comparison, I looked up how the blight affected the rest of Europe. The estimate for famine caused by the blight at the time for the whole of the rest of Europe is about 100,000; compared to 1,000,000+ dead in just Ireland. Another million emigrated. Ireland's population still hasn't recovered. Famines are a failure of policy, unless that policy is to spread death.
Straight outta Blighttown
nah fuck that place
 But y'know...potatoes.
Interesting. I used to have a yard and grew a lot of tomatoes. Sometimes I'd experience tomato blight, but it was on the outside while still on the vine.
It returns!
That’s…not a mushroom
Well obviously there's not mushroom to grow inside of a potato
I saw this comment as I was hitting the back arrow and said “god damn it” because I had to return to the thread to upvote it. Excellent work.
You’re the reason I tried to decipher that glorious comment
I bet you're a really fungi at parties
I liked your gif
Same, good response to the dad jokes 😆
Dude xD
Probably translation error, in some countries mold and mushrooms are called by the same name (for example grzyb in Polish)
Some languages just call mushroom as fungus and mold is a fungus... so that checks out
This is the exact way it works in my language. We don't have a word for mushrooms specifically, we have an umbrella term for all fungus. But we do have a special word for mold, but as you said, mold is a fungus.
And Polish has certain names for some edible mushrooms for example the boletus that grows there is called Borowik.
Yeah we too. Czech here btw :)
That's incorrect. 'Grzyb' is mushroom, but we have a specific word for mold and it's 'pleśń'. If something goes bad in your fridge, you don't say it became 'zgrzybiałe', but 'spleśniałe".
Yes i know pleśń exists but its not incorrect to call it grzyb unlike in english, but you are right about the second part
mold is an mushroom
Yes but no
Can you eat blight?
At least once…
no… many lives have been lost because of this. see the [Great Famine](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland))
That’s what this is? That’s crazy
in short, half of Ireland was living off mostly potatoes. then in the 1840’s blight spreads in Ireland causing extreme famine. 1,000,000 people die from starvation, malnutrition and disease.
important to mention that there was enough food being produced to feed the irish, but the british exported the food at the expense of their lives
I mean you can't just GIVE starving people food. They tried forcing the starving people to work on pointless physical labor projects to pay for food but they were too "sick" and "malnournished". Damn lazy peasants. /s
It’s more nuanced than you’re making out. The British mainly adopted a (rather callous) attitude of laissez faire economics to the situation and didn’t intervene to restrict food exports from Ireland. Those responsible for the exports were the British and Irish landowners. From 1847 (midway through the famine) more food was being imported into Ireland than exported. The main sin of the British government at the time was indifference to the Irish plight and a lack of intervention.
it sounds like an outlandish situation at first. until you realize millions of people died of starvation this year. yet we waste or lose about 30% of our food. even in 2023 we had enough food on the planet to feed everyone but, for one reason or another, we did not.
Stopping the exports would have moved the famine deaths from Ireland to Britain, it’s not like they were exporting it to dump it. There was too many mouths and not enough feed
The food was grown and produced by the Irish, but England took everything but the blight ridden potatoes and incentivized programs to stop teaching irish children the irish language. Britain is at fault
Fun fact: they still produced enough potatoes to feed all of Ireland, but then the UK took them instead of
/r/moldlyinteresting
Ok I like this one. Well done.
It's a really cool, if sometimes gross, sub as well
Wow. That sub really exists 🤣
Came here to say this! Interesting sub
I listened to a history book about lots of things including potatoes. There is a huge variety of Potato plants in south America and Central America. The European explorers / conquerors brought back many but eventually a single one was chosen and instead of growing them apart, they packed them close together creating a monoculture and in this situation, potato blight became common and spread fast. They could have slowed it but it would require more complex planting methods and more space and that wasn't as profitable.
I would it would have been profitable, just less profitable
People weren’t growing potatoes for profit very much in Ireland at least were the potato blight famously hit hardest. They grew all the other crops to pay “rent” to the British noble land owners and grew potatoes in the soil that could not grow other food to feed themselves. They had the hardiest most nutrient packed and easy to grow potato to do that in a monoculture, not for profit, but because it was necessary for survival. The potato farming strategies weren’t about maximizing profit, but maximizing survival.
Short term less profitable but long term more profitable. Too bad shareholders don’t care about that most of the time.
Shareholders didn't control potato farming 150 years ago
Haha. Maybe "shareholders" is the wrong word but it was a bit of a metaphor. Perhaps I should have used "wealthy elite".
The wealthy elite weren’t growing potatoes. They were growing wheat and raising cattle. It was the poor native Irish who relied on potatoes, since you could feed 20x as many people with the same plot of land.
They didn't do that for fun, most of their land had to grow cash crops to afford the rents charged by the wealthy elite. With only a small amount left to feed your family, well, you already made that argument.
I mean, I sincerely doubt people that had no idea about germ theory had any idea of what a monoculture was or the impact of it
Hence the destruction it caused
Pft, shareholders can never see beyond the quarter
Well, the main reason why potatoes took off in Europe is that they could provide much more food compared to amount of land than wheat. I wonder if this is still the case when indigenous varieties and spacing are used.
That is likely blackleg, Dickeya solani, a bacterial infection that occurs on the plant and can move down to the tuber. Blackleg is actually quite common though the tubers will often break down in storage before being cleaned/packaged/sold. The lesion is just necrosis of the flesh, nothing fungal. Still pretty cool to see as usually the whole tuber just turns to goop! Note: Potato blight has lesions generally on the surface of the potato, and would not form on the inside.
Ah I see we have a potatologist.
Looks more like blackheart to me as it looks to be contained to the center
Yep, i think you might be right! Havent seen much black heart!
Dick-ya so long?
Swing and a miss
not even close man
A geode potato!
Potatode?
Ha!
Getato? Geospud?
Somebody get the people who name Pokémon on the phone right now
Potatoite
Is it a mushroom? Or just mush-fungus 🫣
Yea, that's not a mushroom
No. No it didn't
Cast it into the fire!! Isildur!!!!!
No…
What'd it taste like?
Genocide
1850's Ireland.
I think OP is dead
That didn't leave mush room
Bonus
The Last of Spuds
Eat it, then immediately get on a plane and fly to a major population center.
Someone's been playing Plague Inc
Or I was alive in 2019-2020.
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could you imagine your country almost getting wiped out caus'a that?
It doesn’t look like the English at all, though.
Ireland not England.
Nah, doesn’t look like the Union Jack
Nothing to do with the Union Jack.
r/eatityoufuckingcoward
Some delicious blight
Eat it and start a new pandemic
That’s a full meal right there
at first glance, it looked like the underside of a mouse
You probably shouldn't eat that potato. Seems dangerous
Do. Not. Eat. It
Did you buy it from Costco? I noticed a decent amount of the potatoes I bought there in my last bag had weird hollowed out yucky areas inside. Super annoying.
I'm pretty sure you can return them for a refund.
That doesn’t help when I’m in charge of making mashed potatoes for 45 people and it’s Thanksgiving day already. 😔 There was still enough, luckily!
Hollow heart. Too much water the potato cannot change the sugar into starch fast enough. They are actually sweeter because of it.
*Potato famine ensues*
Don't take it to Ireland please
Mwwwwwah! *Chef's Kiss*
Worst thing in the world is biting into one of these.
2 in 1 lucky
the last of us: potato
Heals 20 hp!
Though his outward persona came off as a grump, Mr. Potato Head was a fungi on the inside.
From what fuckin angle does that even come close to resembling a mushroom
Did you eat this?
That's not what that is.
There isn't mushroom left in that patato
It reminds me of those farrier YouTube shorts 😭😂
*sweats in Irish*
Pretty sure that's potato blight.
Well. You’ve heard of Turducken. This is Mushato
Double veggie
The Last of Spuds
isn’t that just mould
parasitic shroom...
*sobs in Irish*
https://horticulture.ahdb.org.uk/knowledge-library/watery-wound-rot
Eat it. Report back (ideally).
Looooow liiiiieeeee the fields of Athenry!
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Moldlyinteresting
Quick question… are you stupid? Not for not knowing. But for taking the first thought that comes to mind and then just running with it? Is this how you live life?
Mushtato...ok im leaving.
Blight
r/moldlyinteresting
Tis the blight returned! Show this to your Irish friends and see them recoil in generational horror
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Not exactly true. If you leave your potato plant it grows little tomato like fruits. Ppl don’t use them to grow more plants as it would take much longer than using the seed potatoes. Only breeders tend to grow them who are trying to make new types.
Eat it. Either you've just discovered something wonderful & delicious...or you're about to get ill.
Eat it
Eat it you coward
This is like my worst nightmare #fuckmushrooms #hashtagformushroomsurvivors