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[rayheinrich]

"It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes" -- Douglas Adams.

Planes are exploding and bullets are flying,
Earth's heating up and the penguins are dying,
children are homeless and mothers are crying,
can't drive a car without having a crash.

People are callous and cruel to each other,
neighbour hates neighbour and brother hates brother,
won't read the news today, sod it, I'd rather
just sit at home with me bangers and mash.

The Irish Potato Famine comes to mind, but I'm just being a grinch.
Tasteless comment:

There's a dish endemic to my fungus ridden southern clime
that comes to mind whenever I see "bangers and mash". It's
called sausage and grits. The type of sausage used is pretty
much the same as the banger, but instead of having tasty
mashed potatoes we have grits. Grits are a porridge made
of boiled, coarsely ground corn meal. It is quite similar
in taste and consistency to wallpaper glue with some sand
stirred in. I don't know why I just wrote this.