
Pineapple Folly
The Blindboy Podcast
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The Podato and the Peasant in Ireland
Oliver cromwell was a colonizer. He cleare the forests, kicked the irish out, turned this into pasture lands full of cows and then give all the land to protestants from england and scotland. The potato was fantastic to grow under those circumstances. You're so poor and you have so little that at least you can grow this one thing. So that's why the irish become dependent on this folk an potato. And the beautiful irony of it isat it's the exact opposite of the pineapple. They both come from south america. The podato grows easily. You need fock al land. But if you're to grow a pineapple, you
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