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- tsuroki, on 10/12/2007, -6/+121We need a Colbert subtopic.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+67It's true, Irish people do love potatoes, just like black people like fried chicken and watermelon. Dugg.
- Dashing, on 10/12/2007, -8/+642008 President?
- sceebacny, on 10/12/2007, -5/+44POE-TA-TOES, boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew...
- tech42er, on 10/12/2007, -5/+36A Daily Show and Colbert Report subtopic
- jtjenn, on 10/12/2007, -8/+36I love potatoes and I'm not Irish.
- mikef98765, on 10/12/2007, -0/+28I'd digg it.
- baltimoretim, on 10/12/2007, -2/+30This situation is less offensive, because the Irish have advanced beyond the "no dogs, no Irish" period of discrimination and are now fully integrated into the power structures of society, in Europe and the US (especially the US).
Stereotyping African-Americans, or similar groups in other places with anti-African racism problems (like France, for instance), just adds to an already heaping helping of misery, and delays the day when that misery is reduced. Because ex-African populations are oppressed all over the Western world, racism that targets them has much more of an effect. The Irish (and Polish, etc.) laugh this stuff off because they _can._ - ninjasavant, on 10/12/2007, -3/+27I'm wearing a shirt that says Ireland, and ate potatoes last night.
- bodaggit, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27You're asserting the consequent. The premise isn't "all people who love potatoes are Irish," it's "all people who are Irish love potatoes."
- josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -5/+27I love potatoes and whiskey... (not in that order)
- bash, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21@themckay: ...You've never watched Dave Chappelle have you?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -6/+26I'm not Irish, but I used Irish Spring soap this morning, and now I'm craving potatoes.
- EpicCrusadr, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20Your shirt ate potatoes last night?
- gosix, on 10/12/2007, -4/+20We Scots love 'em, too.
- super_spyder, on 10/12/2007, -0/+16I'm Irish, and I LOVE potatoes (my name is murphy for god sake), my best friend is a matzah gobbling jew, and my girlfriend is a Persian that loves her kabob and hummus.... some stereotypes are true
- DoctaStooge, on 10/12/2007, -18/+30How about a Daily Show subtopic while we're at it?
- danakin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Unless you have a sense of humor. And eyesight. That comes in handy as well.
- Duositex, on 10/12/2007, -4/+14I'm white and I like money. Coincidence?? Ethnic slur?? You be the judge..
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -0/+9"Did not know they were poisonous before watching."
Yes. You must watch the potatoes before eating. Watching them stops them from being poisonous. - buba447, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11Me too.
But im not irish(i thought the shirt looked cool), and i hate potatoes(it was all i could find). - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8If a country suddenly losing their potatoes is a massive, devastating event known to the rest of the world as the Irish Potato Famine... it is no longer in the realm of stereotyping to suggest that those people love their potatoes.
- spike57, on 10/12/2007, -5/+13@Klisk
What are you talking about???
and why is your comment under "We need a Colbert subtopic." - autodata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8Damn, super_spyder, you just basically described me (Irish: potatoes), my best friend (Jewish: pickles) and my fiance (Lebanese: hummus, etc). Hmmm...maybe we Irish are somehow bridging the deep divides in the middle east.
- Giever, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8I have a feeling the reception to those kind of jokes would be different if Dave Chappelle was white.
EDIT: Fixed Chappelle* - josegutz, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7I am not too keen about ethnic slurs, but I will tell you one thing...I love it when ethnicity mixes different cultures to produce a babe like Veronica Beccera who is Japanese/Mexican. I am all for it man.
- webcrumb, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8I've not met an Irish person who doesn't like potatoes.
I have met a German who doesn't like beer. - danlovejoy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Does it make a difference that there is nothing wrong with liking potatoes, fried chicken, watermelon, or [insert food here]? Some stereotypes are harmless.
When I lived in Japan, I got asked every week, "Do you like rice or bread?" because Japanese people think Westerners prefer rice over bread, like they're mutually exclusive. It made me laugh. It was puzzling, but it certainly wasn't offensive.
I wish we could get past our offense at silly things like this so we can focus on REAL racism. - RichG13, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8"Good Eats" episode on potatoes was great. Did not know they were poisonous before watching.
- stewstank, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Initially the food was treated with distrust, and was believed to be unhealthy and even un-Christian. This prevented widespread acceptance for a period, although it began to be promoted as a medicinal plant. This was in part because they came from the ground and were considered the "devils fruit."
Potatoes contain glycoalkaloids, toxic compounds, of which the most prevalent are solanine and chaconine. Cooking at high temperatures (over 170 °C or 340 °F) partly destroys these. The concentration of glycoalkaloid in wild potatoes suffices to produce toxic effects in humans. Glycoalkaloids occur in the greatest concentrations just underneath the skin of the tuber, and they increase with age and exposure to light. Glycoalkaloids may cause headaches, diarrhea, cramps and in severe cases coma and death; however, poisoning from potatoes occurs very rarely. Light exposure also causes greening, thus giving a visual clue as to areas of the tuber that may have become more toxic; however, this does not provide a definitive guide, as greening and glycoalkaloid accumulation can occur independently of each other. Some varieties of potato contain greater glycoalkaloid concentrations than others; breeders developing new varieties test for this, and sometimes have to discard an otherwise promising cultivar. - wikipedia
Interestingly enough, drops deadly nightshade's juices were placed into girls eyes to make them have a strong shine.
cause knowing is 1/2 the battle - GI JOE! - chriskzoo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4Classic. I'd give it a Siskel and Ebert 2 thumbs WAY up if I could.
- Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -1/+5[sarcasm] yea, he's no George Bush [/sarcasm]
- rparle, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4@CDHarrisUSF: The Irish at the time of the famine ate potatoes because they were the only food that could be grown in sufficient quantities in the tiny amounts of land that most Irish subsistence farmers had to live on. They continued to grow some of the more luxury foods like carrots and turnips, but these were taken by the English as payment of rent and taxes.
For some reason there are living Irish people who blame living English people for this, even though it happened over 150 years ago. That's always been one of the puzzling things about history for me. - eddyc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3That's not true, during the famine there was plenty of food, Irish catholics couldn't eat it because it was all being exported by the British or being bought by British/Irish protestants, Oliver Cromwell passed some laws that made Irish catholics no better than slaves.
Potatoes were the most nutritious and plentiful food one could grow on a tiny bit of land that's why they were eaten so much. - nbcaffeine, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I do believe that they are part of the nightshade family, which is why the europeans thought they were poisonous. At least, thats what I recall from the potatos episode of Good Eats (love that show)
- fahimi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Yup, British people love their Americans and hamburgers just as much as their Fish and Chips.
- adamkmccarthy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2eh, yea - in ireland we call it taking the piss ;)
- wpholmes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Might want to watch this first:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFRz_6IIPXU&mode=related&search= - Pattyo13, on 05/14/2009, -1/+3I tend to agree but at the same time...
YouTube is a collection of videos that people sift through. The top rated ones make it to the top. If those make it to digg, then they must be really good and therefor worthy of my time. If I wanted to do the initial sorting myself, I'd use YouTube, but digg is a collection of everything, all on one page - adamkmccarthy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2rubbish, clearly someone who doesnt understand or studied our history. We like fish, we didnt even have the technology to catch them, no rods, no sticks, no string...nothing.
AND - its was all a big conspiracy anyway. There was no famine in ireland. The english ROBBED all our potatoes and left us with none. - scott1, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6How bout fake news topic.
Oh yeah btw even Al Gore supports the idea of stephan colbert in '08:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6b7O_cWEZU&mode=related&search= - andrewmcdonagh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2@Gin613
I appreciate your sentiment but you need should probably check your facts. The Great Famine (as it's know in Ireland) started in 1845 but lingered until 1851 and was caused by three total potato crop failures (45 / 46 / 47).
You are right that potato's did make up the bulk of the peasant diet at the time but wrong in that Ireland is (and was) an agriculturally rich country and was in fact exporting enough food through the famine years to feed her own population. Over 2 million left the country and anything up to a million died. This might seem like ancient history but has left an abiding "folk memory" in Ireland - even now in a restaurant if people leave food they will often cover it with a napkin to hide the waste.
Would it be funny if the joke was about coloured men liking to wear chains around thier necks? After all slavery was abolished in the 19th century? If the answer to that is no then this is an ethnic slur. Worse than that it's just not funny. - Lososaurus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Need more hoes!
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2ninja, where can i get a shirt that eats potatoes at night?
if you feed it past midnight will gremlins grow on the back of the shirt because if that happens, i would say you have a big mess on your hands and then you have to go around town with a blowtorch to torch those little suckers, otherwise they are going to eat the whole town's supply of taters and then the town runs out of taters, if the town does run out of taters, i won't be able to have anymore latkas and that's not going to be good to me. - ziggy101, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2This just in...
British people love Fish and Chips, Americans and Hamburgers, Italians love pasta, Chinese love rice and Aussies love BBQ's - oh the shame of it all
Having evolved to one of the richest countries (per capita) in Europe and 4th in the world us Irish really don't give a crap anymore when it comes to stuff like this, and our self-depreciating sense of humor allows us to sit back and laugh at it all... - designbydave, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It's a FACT: Digg users love Steven Colbert
- fahimi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1But was added to YouTube August 7, 2006. For us to see, in case we originally missed it.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1"Sorry, this site is closed due to excessive bandwidth useage."
You bastards! You killed the site. - dinobot, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1John Munch:
"A million people died in the potato famine. Ireland is an island. An island by definition is surrounded by fish. A million people died because they didn't like fish."
Excerpt from Homicide:Life on the Streets - phobia2001, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2I must agree with Barry. Pickles- yes; matzah-no. We only eat it when forced to at passover, and it's only tasty when *lathered* in creamcheese, or made into a hillel sandwich.
I will agree with pickles- the relationship with Jews and pickles is honest and true. I'm gunna get me some kosher dill right now, boy howdy. -
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