Serves them right, really.
Ireland isn’t the only country that’s been hit by high temperatures in the last couple of weeks — and the English are suffering in their own way.
Alex Albone, the co-founder of Piper’s Crisps has told the Sunday Times that “there is a danger [we] will have a crisp crisis” should the heatwave continue.
The unusual weather is causing problems for potato crops, and it seems that English crisp companies are beginning to consider buying produce from abroad in order to offset the possibility of a crisp shortage.
Of course, here in Ireland we know a thing or two about potato problems, so we’re in a good place to give our neighbours some helpful advice. But, us being us, that’s not what we did at all. Instead we all went on Twitter and ripped the piss out of them.
How about we offer you some, I don’t know, *soup* perhaps???? To supplement the crisp shortage on the condition that you agree to Irish terms of a Brexit deal? 🥔🇪🇺🥔 https://t.co/St5aNGFKBR
— Dr Gearóidín McEvoy (@GaRoDean) July 5, 2018
Oh your potatoes are going that’s grand my country didn’t suffer genocide by the British Empire due to a potato famine at all but god help yas.
— Decky🇮🇪🇵🇸 (@Deckyy67) July 5, 2018
https://twitter.com/Sarklor/status/1014876219668606977
https://twitter.com/TheHogandDice/status/1014829901294264320
https://twitter.com/fionnmcgorry/status/1014823267935322112
I mean, these jokes might all fall a little flat once the heat starts to affect our potatoes as well… But we’ll cross that bridge when we come to it.
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