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Once call me forever now you still can't call me back and I'm... You are listening to Stick Season, the sensational hit single by Noah Khan. Out now. Hello and welcome to the Irish history podcast my name is Finn Duwara.

Now you might be able to tell from my voice but it's 5.30 a.m. in the morning and I'm up early for

it's going to be an unusual podcast because I'm turning back the clock about two centuries and

today I'm going to be living on the diet of a rural poor

labour in Ireland before the famine. Now pre-famine Ireland is associated with

one thing and that's potatoes not least because a failure in this crop in 1845 triggered

the great famine but the rural poor ate almost nothing else the sheer amount of

potatoes people ate is jaw dropping.

Their diet has to be one of the strangest in modern history.

Adult males consumed about 6 kilos of potatoes every day.

I have a big bowl of about 40 potatoes in front of me if that

helps you visualize it. So today I'm going to live on this diet eating only

potatoes with a strange accompaniments from the early 19th century, from seaweed to water

and pepper.

Along the way I'll tell you what it's like to eat and what it tastes like.

But you'll also hear great insights from Regina Sexton, a food historian and expert in culinary

history who I interviewed last week.

Now I do have one caveat, while I will be eating almost nothing but potatoes and lots of them. I am making one exception.

I'm going to allow myself coffee to start today because without that I'm not going to be able to function.

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