Beat The Chef: Ultimate Potato Battle
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Starvation was not actually the main cause of death as one would expect with a 'famine', illness was.
Workhouses were set up by the British government and were overcrowded and ran rampant with disease. They were separated into men, women and children. Families were separated and lucky to ever see each other or their personal belongings again. People, yes even children, were put to manual labour for hours from sunrise to set for poor, non nutritional meals and to 'earn their stay'. Thousands died from malnutrition and disease in these government funded workhouses.
The British government actually denied outside help from other countries on multiple occasions. Also they continued to harvest and export crops from ireland during this time.
Emigration efforts kills thousands also. Over a million immigrated on 'coffin ships' which were referred to as such because they were completely overcrowded and had such high death rates and illness spread.
In conclusion: the great famine was not a famine, it was a genocide by the British government on the irish population, which was nearly halfed in that 5 year period btw. This history played a huge part in the fight for independence.
Sorry i went off on a real tangent there, also i did not go into a lot of vivid detail but if this is new information to anyone, you can easily look it up to verify/explore it further.
Date: 2020-08-17
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Comments and reviews: 9
Heysauce
I used to think of farmers like they were decades ago, no new technology, just picking up some potatoes. Seeing the farmer use so much technology, drones, cameras, scanning fields for yield potential, etc. was really interesting. I never gave much thought to how much technology can actually help farmers. It really changed the way I see where my food comes from.
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I used to think of farmers like they were decades ago, no new technology, just picking up some potatoes. Seeing the farmer use so much technology, drones, cameras, scanning fields for yield potential, etc. was really interesting. I never gave much thought to how much technology can actually help farmers. It really changed the way I see where my food comes from.
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Ethan
The British also took almost all of Irelands other food supplies. There was never a cure found for blight there was just enough to people who died that there would be enough food for the survivors. The famine was more of a genocide rather than a disease that killed off potatoes
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The British also took almost all of Irelands other food supplies. There was never a cure found for blight there was just enough to people who died that there would be enough food for the survivors. The famine was more of a genocide rather than a disease that killed off potatoes
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PhantomGamer28
The historian left out the fact that the blight was only so bad because Europeans (including the English) used only one strain of potato so when that strain got hit, it hit much harder than it would now with a variety of potato strains.
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The historian left out the fact that the blight was only so bad because Europeans (including the English) used only one strain of potato so when that strain got hit, it hit much harder than it would now with a variety of potato strains.
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monkeysnake77
We need more of these celebratory episodes. Love the fact that you didn't go with the generic beef, pork or pawn and instead went with the spud. Here is to celebration of corn, aubergine or mushroom! (please)
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We need more of these celebratory episodes. Love the fact that you didn't go with the generic beef, pork or pawn and instead went with the spud. Here is to celebration of corn, aubergine or mushroom! (please)
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Stalwart
Fun fact, after the irish potato famine there was a village found where all the residents had droppes dead of starvation but all had green skin because they had resorted to eating high amounts of grass
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Fun fact, after the irish potato famine there was a village found where all the residents had droppes dead of starvation but all had green skin because they had resorted to eating high amounts of grass
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Srujana
It's sad that most of British doesn't accept the wrong their ancestors did to the world on whole.
Disregarding Britan's role in the Irish famine is just one of the many examples out there.
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It's sad that most of British doesn't accept the wrong their ancestors did to the world on whole.
Disregarding Britan's role in the Irish famine is just one of the many examples out there.
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Tannaz
im twelve min in and Im thinking lob the rose potato skin things mike did last time they had a potato battle in the bin. I havent seen the end result yet and Im already impressed!
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im twelve min in and Im thinking lob the rose potato skin things mike did last time they had a potato battle in the bin. I havent seen the end result yet and Im already impressed!
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Katie
Its very disappointing to see the English once again gloss over their crimes against people they stole land from.
Never disliked a video before but this upset me too much.
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Its very disappointing to see the English once again gloss over their crimes against people they stole land from.
Never disliked a video before but this upset me too much.
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PyroSparton117
Love to see Bens sportsmanship. He was the first to clap when James said who won. GG Ben. Much respect. Great dishes by both guys! Proud of you Mike! Great job!
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Love to see Bens sportsmanship. He was the first to clap when James said who won. GG Ben. Much respect. Great dishes by both guys! Proud of you Mike! Great job!
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