Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

Why do the English have this thing about the Irish and potatoes ? Oh yes because it’s a culturally engrained stereotype from when they, at best, watched on as a million Irish died of hunger when the famine hit and another million had to emigrate.
Lazy racist trope.

In my case I've never had a thing about potatoes and the Irish.

However, my wife (who's from Kildare), and her best friend from school (so also Kildare), and a former colleague of hers (from Dublin), and her husband (also Kildare) definitely have a thing about potatoes.

Extra potatoes - more than I ever thought reasonable - are a requirement if we're cooking dinner together. Extra potatoes will be ordered if we're out for dinner in a restaurant that serves potatoes.

Every wedding I've been to in Ireland has featured extra potatoes (disappointingly, generally only three ways, boiled, roast and mash), brought round time after time by waiting staff who have little difficulty unloading their burden onto the already potato-rich plates of willing guests.

So IM(undoubtedly limited)E it may be a trope, it may be a stereotype, it may be culturally engrained, and it's almost certainly based on the colonially-forced export of grains, but nonetheless it's based on fact.

Would you like another chip?