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Re:The curse of the potato by dunmalg on Saturday April 30, 2016 @12:18PM (#11602280)
They actually have a pretty good idea of what they ate. Interesting article on it here:

http://www.ravensgard.org/prdunham/irishfood.html

The TLDR of their diet is "mostly pottage and soups, heavy on meat and dairy. Some oats and barley were grown, but a lot of that ended up being made into alcoholic beverages."

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Re:The curse of the potato by danieltillett on Saturday April 30, 2016 @07:03PM (#11604047)
Alcoholic beverages have the advantage of making contaminated water drinkable without losing much in the way of calories in the original grain. A really clever solution to a problem of how to avoid dysentery when your water supply is not safe to drink.
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