Spyke

The painting is quite interesting.

The proverb about the loaf is: "To be barely able to reach from one loaf to another"

And means: "To have difficulty living within budget"

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lemmy.ml

The Irish Famine had better crops than this

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True, which is why the English had to deliberately make it worse, including rejecting food aid shipments from other countries.

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It was so zoomed in and cropped that I thought this was one of those weird corner scenes in a Bosch tryptic.

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