| Jay Scott : Daily Whale : archive : 2000 : 17 March 2000 |
It's St. Patrick's Day! I bought Irish potatoes, because potatoes are the sneakiest vegetable. They're unpatriotically non-green, they grow underground, and they have eyes all over to watch everything. Starting from South America, they used Spanish explorers to travel to Europe to cause a famine to drive the Irish to North America. I've got to admire that--the most complicated scheme yet to promote a holiday.
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