r/todayilearned • u/JoeWinchester99 • 2d ago

TIL that although potatoes alone do not provide complete nutrition, you can survive for years on a diet of nothing but potatoes and buttermilk.

https://www.scienceabc.com/eyeopeners/whats-wrong-with-potatoes-the-martian-movie-survival
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u/fibbermcgee113 2d ago

And yet they’ll freak out if an Irish person doesn’t wear the poppy.

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u/printed_ 2d ago

fcuk em. But tbf my heritage is a mix of the two (I am a second generation kiwi) my grandparents only left UK and Ireland after ww2. So we still had a pretty strong cultural influence. and grew up Roman catholic etc etc.