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If an island nation doesn't come up with some fish-based specialty, I'd wonder what the hell is wrong with them. -- nm

Posted by Reagen Oct 23 '18, 12:43

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It's always been a puzzle to me, why there's no particularly Irish seafood, no national seafood identity like Italian, mexican Japanese etc -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 23, 12:49 6
- Yes there is. Salmon, Dublin bay prawns, etc. They even eat seaweed and Carrageen moss there. But Ireland was a colony in recent history, and that -- (edited) - Roger More Oct 23, 12:56 2
  - Right, there was no food *production* shortage during the Potato Famine. -- nm - Reagen Oct 23, 12:58 1
    - chawl. -- nm - Diva Oct 23, 12:59
- because the bloody invaders made us work the farms, then they chopped off our heads and boiled them in oil -- nm - crash davis Oct 23, 12:51 2
  - Oh yeah, pillaging and raping does make you want to build elsewhere -- nm - zeitgeist Oct 23, 13:06 1
    - I was stealing from this song :) -- (link) - crash davis Oct 23, 13:07 [youtube]
Exhibit A: Cuba -- nm - Roger More Oct 23, 12:46

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