Is starvation coming to a country near you. When prices get so high that people have to chose between food, heating, housing, medicine and so on, people are going to start dying.
Germans are known for their love of the potato to the point that the country’s controversial anti-discrimination commissioner, Ferda Ataman, referred to ethnic Germans as “potatoes” as a slur in February of this year. Now, the price of potatoes has soared 73 percent compared to the previous year, which is one of the steepest increases of any food product at the supermarket.