I read recently that before the famine, the average iriahman ate three kilos of spuds per day (and not much else)...but what was the bulk of their diet prior to the introduction of spuds from America? | AskHistorians Archive Observer

I read recently that before the famine, the average iriahman ate three kilos of spuds per day (and not much else)...but what was the bulk of their diet prior to the introduction of spuds from America?

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*Irishman. Drats.

So they'd have eaten fish on the coast, obv. But apart from that.

Searocksandtrees

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