(November 17, 2021 at 4:29 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: You could live on nothing but milk and potatoes and cover literally all your daily required nutrients but Vitamin E and Molybdenium.
However, you’d need to eat 8 pounds of potatoes and drink 2 gallons of milk per day. And I’m not sure if that’s even possible.
https://www.straightdope.com/21343924/co...s-and-milk
During the great Irish famine in the nineteenth century more than a million died. Another 1.5 million left, mostly to America. Before the famine, the population of Ireland was about 8 million. Today, Southern Ireland has 4.94 million. Combined with Northern Ireland, the the total is 6.8 million.
I read that the reason for the famine cause by the potato blight was that for a couple of million Irish, their diet was mainly potatoes and oats.
