laughing-potatoes

Updated: January 13, 2026

There were geese and fowl of all kinds shoulders of mutton, laughing-potatoes, carrots, parsnips, and cabbage, together with an immense pudding, boiled in a clean sheet, and ingeniously kept together with long straws* drawn through it in all directions.

William Carleton - Going to Maynooth : Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, The Works of William Carleton, Volume Three