No more spuds!!!

Bicky

Newsweek photo article on the effect of climate change in Europe. I did not know we were suffering from drought?

With fertile land and a strong farming tradition, County Meath is Ireland’s leading producer of potatoes. The spud has strong historical associations with Ireland, and is still consumed in large quantities: the average Irish citizen eats about 190 pounds of potatoes each year. Projected increases in average summer temperatures and droughts over the next few decades could put an end to the potato as a commercially viable crop in this area.

Click on to the third photo.

http://photo.newsweek.com/2010/3/europe.html

mfceiling

Great..................must head the jacks and strain mine now!!

admiralofthefleet

eh?

Nodin

Looks like I'll get my chance to prove my theory about cannibals having a better chance to survive a spud famine....

biko

We'll still have rain in the West so will corner the spuds market
mohahahaha

Sykk

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

starbelgrade

Nodin wrote: »

Looks like I'll get my chance to prove my theory about cannibals having a better chance to survive a spud famine....

"Agh - there's no spuds left... what will we do?"

"EAT EACH OTHER!"

ball

starbelgrade wrote: »

"Agh - there's no spuds left... what will we do?"

"EAT EACH OTHER!"

What do we do when we run out of people!?

Sykk

ball wrote: »

What do we do when we run out of people!?

Eat urself

BlaasForRafa

the average Irish citizen eats about 190 pounds of potatoes each year

And thats just in packets of Tayto!

Cookie_Monster

so we can grow rice in meath instead now

petes

I'd love some spuds now!

BlaasForRafa

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

so we can grow rice in meath instead now

it'd be hard to make chips with rice though :eek:

faceman

Bicky wrote: »

Click on to the third photo.

http://photo.newsweek.com/2010/3/europe.html

Ive been looking at that picture for 20 minutes now and I cant see any potatoes nor has an image of a possessed Linda Blair appeared on screen. Am I missing something?

xzanti

Projected increases in average summer temperatures and droughts over the next few decades could put an end to the potato as a commercially viable crop in this area.

Fupp the spuds, I'm off carbs anyway..

I'm off to buy some bikinis :cool:

dr.bollocko

Words like "bullshit" get thrown around a lot in AH. But strangely never enough when it comes to hippie vegan douches and their nonsense.

vibe666

i was actually going to start a thread about spuds in meath (sorry, it's been a quiet week), but not because of drought but flooding.

driving round the countryside over the last while i've noticed that a lot of last years spud fields have gone unharvested and the spuds are still in the ground, long dead.

i'm assuming its down to the rain levels we had as there was a lot of flooding in a particular field on my way home, but i've noticed since then that quite a few other spud crops are still there with just the spindly grey remains of the plants sticking out of the ground like ted dansen's hair plugs.

Dravokivich

Sykk wrote: »

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Do not want!

opinion guy

Bicky wrote: »

Newsweek photo article on the effect of climate change in Europe. I did not know we were suffering from drought?



Click on to the third photo.

http://photo.newsweek.com/2010/3/europe.html

Awesome photo. I believe thats taken from the old main Drogheda Dublin road facing West about half-way between Dublin and Drogheda. No not the N1, the even older one the Rsomethingsomething. Its windy as hell and narrow and takes about 75 - 90 mins to get from Dub to Drog, and you can get lost easily but the scenery is just awesome like in the photo. Totally worth it if your not in a hurry anywhere.


Note to self: take this route sometime soon

jd007

BlaasForRafa wrote: »

it'd be hard to make chips with rice though :eek:

One of my friends thought rice was made from potatoes. Got a good slaggin for it.

vibe666

jd007 wrote: »

One of my friends thought rice was made from potatoes. Got a good slaggin for it.

i can just see the factory now with loads of little aisian kids being forced to cut little tiny rice grains out of spuds by hand!

opinion guy

jd007 wrote: »

One of my friends thought rice was made from potatoes. Got a good slaggin for it.

Deservedly so!!

epgc3fyqirnbsx

How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?

None.

admiralofthefleet

biko wrote: »

We'll still have rain in the West so will corner the spuds market
mohahahaha

ever seen trading places?:pac:

InKonspikuou2

Wait till summer rolls around where it pisses for 3 months and that will put an end to any drought they're talking about.

conorhal

That's alright, the fine cabernet sauvignon's and fruity Merlot's of the world renowned West Meath vineyards will be ample compensation for the loss. Bring on de global warming!

Min

Just more man made scare tactics by the man made climate change alarmists.

Helix

spuds are overrated

pretty much gave em up when i moved over hither

mikom

Bicky wrote: »

Projected increases in average summer temperatures and droughts over the next few decades could put an end to the potato as a commercially viable crop in this area.

Pure bollox.
Where were those Newsweek fucks with their drought when our harvester was swimmin' in muck the last two harvests.

fryup

another famine? :eek:

owenc

O god.. What's so great about potatoes my dad eats them EVERY SINGlE day!?? They have no flavour and are plain boring I'm sick of them!!

opinion guy

This thread forced me to eat chips instead of rice today.:mad:

rossie1977

projected temperature increases

yeah we were told in secondary school in 1989 that ireland was going to have the same climate as southern spain by 2020 and that southern spain would be all desert

Agonist

You do know the the greenhouse effect is very close to the tipping point? If you are all so happy about the vineyards and paddy fields then why are you acting like you're in denial??

Jesus Wept

wrote:

the average Irish citizen eats about 190 pounds of potatoes each year

... the average irish person eats more than half a pound of potatoes for every day of the year...

Bollox.