McDonald's is shutting down its Russian restaurants

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[–]Jackalope[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Potato shortage? I always thought potatos were cheap and plentiful, why couldn't they just buy more?

[–]In-the-clouds 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why didn't the Irish think of that during the potato famine? Just buy more.... That could have prevented the starvation of so many people....

But food is not always guaranteed to be cheap and abundantly available.

In the Irish potato famine, disease killed the potato plants and the harvests rotted in the ground. There were no potatoes to buy. If you want to know more about that famine, here's a short summary:

https://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/blight.html