Status Yellow Famine Warning

Olsky · 03-06-2018 12:53am #1

Met Eireann have issued a Status Yellow Potato Blight warning.

https://www.met.ie/warnings

WARNINGS

Status Yellow - Blight Warning
Weather conditions conducive to the spread of Potato Blight are likely to occur in coastal areas.

Issued: Friday 01 June 2018 05:00

McDermotX · 03-06-2018 12:57am

It's back.

One eyed Jack · 03-06-2018 1:02am

Ahh be grand, we can just have chips instead.

Poor Uncle Tom · 03-06-2018 1:02am

Dythane 945 FTW...

Copper sulphate if all else fails and read the bloody poem next time.......:D

Noveight · 03-06-2018 1:02am

Olsky wrote: »

Status Yellow - Blight Warning
Weather conditions conducive to the spread of Potato Blight are likely to occur in coastal areas.

Everyone will be flocking to Athlone to steal their spuds and women.

Poor Uncle Tom · 03-06-2018 1:03am

Noveight wrote: »

Everyone will be flocking to Athlone to steal their spuds and women.

A gross of each costs the same or so I'm told.......:p

Conservatory · 03-06-2018 1:04am

Fine Gael to release a statement saying how great it is that we are moving on to rice

r93kaey5p2izun · 03-06-2018 1:10am

Have you recently signed up to met eireann alerts OP? This is a fairly regular occurrence. We don't need to worry about getting to the coffin ships unless it's status red.

How Soon Is Now · 03-06-2018 1:22am

First the Visa cards now the potatoes!!

Poor Uncle Tom · 03-06-2018 1:24am

How Soon Is Now wrote: »

First the Visa cards now the potatoes!!

First the bread now the spuds, it's the starch monsters we were warned about, run for your lives...............

Graces7 · 03-06-2018 7:59am

Far far from a laughing matter if it really hit... shudders.

Instead we have forage famines and the farmers can help each other out.

I was reading the history of this island and during the Famine it escaped and grew enough potatoes and wheat to feed hundreds over on the mainland.

Herpes Free Since03 · 03-06-2018 8:00am

As long as we don't get a halloumi fries famine we'll be grand!

M5 · 03-06-2018 8:01am

How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?

None

Mickeroo · 03-06-2018 8:01am

Blight warnings happen practically a few times every year.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-06-2018 8:16am

Once it's warm, with any chance of higher moisture, there is a blight warning issued so growers can spray accordingly. It happens several times every year. Nothing unusual and certainly not a potential crop failure.

dan1895 · 03-06-2018 8:19am

At least the Brits aren't still here to steal the rest of our food.

Mr. CooL ICE · 03-06-2018 8:21am

That's it; I'm moving to Boston.

Graces7 · 03-06-2018 4:43pm

dan1895 wrote: »

At least the Brits aren't still here to steal the rest of our food.

Oh yes we are

Here but not to steal.. You can share my spuds....and peas.. and cabbage..

diomed · 03-06-2018 4:45pm

Take away the yellow warnings.
Just surprise us.

Graces7 · 03-06-2018 4:46pm

Blight be blowed. They need to issue a MIDGE WARNING. It is RED ALERT over here today... STAY INDOORS... Take cover..

Rubberchikken · 03-06-2018 4:47pm

Aw shure isnt everyone eating pasta these days.

Berserker · 03-06-2018 4:49pm

dan1895 wrote: »

At least the Brits aren't still here to steal the rest of our food.

Oh yes we are! You'll be fine this time round though. You'll get by on quinoa and buckwheat. You are welcome to that stuff.

tabby aspreme · 03-06-2018 4:59pm

Trevelyn's corn could be robbed again, another few verses added onto the fields

Richard Hillman · 03-06-2018 5:04pm

Anyone know how to make Nettle Soup?

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-06-2018 5:07pm

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Anyone know how to make Nettle Soup?

Easy. But it tastes vile.

We can lose the potato crop without fear of hunger. The consumption of Irish grown potatoes here had plummeted in the past 15 years. Rice, pasta and imported spuds are now the order of the day.

Harvested my first early spuds today - delicious.

Graces7 · 03-06-2018 5:07pm

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Anyone know how to make Nettle Soup?

https://www.independent.ie/lifestyle/health/nettle-soup-29332313.html

NB of course wear gloves when picking them..

endacl · 03-06-2018 5:11pm

Graces7 wrote: »

I was reading the history of this island and during the Famine it escaped and grew enough potatoes and wheat to feed hundreds over on the mainland.

On the whatnow?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-06-2018 5:12pm

McDermotX wrote: »

It's back.

... and this time, it's personal...

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 03-06-2018 5:13pm

endacl wrote: »

On the whatnow?

Continental Europe.

Herpes Free Since03 · 03-06-2018 5:16pm

endacl wrote: »

On the whatnow?

She lives on an island off Galway

LirW · 03-06-2018 5:18pm

Hope people would enjoy a 2 in 1 then.

banie01 · 03-06-2018 5:19pm

Will the new how to spot a Snowflake measure, be "who took the soup"?

03-06-2018 6:14pm

McDermotX wrote: »

It's back.

I don't think this is the Chore Sex guy...

03-06-2018 6:25pm

Conservatory wrote: »

Fine Gael to release a statement saying how great it is that we are moving on to rice

Fine Gael to release a statement, following the death and obliteration of millions of Irish people from Irish soil, about it being "a shared experience between the Blight and the Irish people". This will be quickly followed by a call that statutes honouring aforementioned misunderstood Blight should be erected as a sign of aforementioned "shared experience".

kupus · 03-06-2018 8:35pm

Armando Rough Spectacle wrote: »

Easy. But it tastes vile.

You are making it wrong then.

Bit of oil, salt, pepper, bit of butter, garlic, one block of vegetable stock and away you go. Hmmm..

AllForIt · 03-06-2018 8:39pm

Great - I was looking for a good excuses to immigrate illegally to the US.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 03-06-2018 8:40pm

kupus wrote: »

You are making it wrong then.

Bit of oil, salt, pepper, bit of butter, garlic, one block of vegetable stock and away you go. Hmmm..

Obviously, your grandmother never forced you to eat it as a child. We had no blocks of stock nor garlic in the 40s.

It was more like the nettle soup served to the 104th labour camp prisoners in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel.

Herpes Free Since03 · 03-06-2018 10:19pm

Armando Rough Spectacle wrote: »

Obviously, your grandmother never forced you to eat it as a child. We had no blocks of stock nor garlic in the 40s.

It was more like the nettle soup served to the 104th labour camp prisoners in Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's novel.

Hang on... 1840's?!!! You were in the original famine?? ...and I thought Grace's was old !

endacl · 03-06-2018 10:23pm

Herpes Free Since03 wrote: »

She lives on an island off Galway

There’s a hint of Craggy Island off some of her posts all right...

Herpes Free Since03 · 03-06-2018 10:31pm

endacl wrote: »

There’s a hint of Craggy Island off some of her posts all right...

I'd have said Shutter Isle

Poor Uncle Tom · 03-06-2018 10:32pm

Best use of fresh nettles is to put manners on spring cabbage. Boil both together, chop with butter salt and pepper. The nettles actually tame the flavour of the cabbage and stops the urge to poo through a keyhole.....:D

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