When you make an irish stew, you must only use 239 beans or fewer

One bean more, and it'll be too farty.

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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 101d (3 replies)

Great joke, but definitely hard to tell in text.

victorz@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d

Really? "Irish" is there to help you even more than necessary.

okwhateverdude@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 101d (1 reply)

especially since the ar in "farty" is more like a "ahr"

victorz@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 101d

That's why Irish is in the pretext. Makes it very obvious how it should be pronounced and that the similarities between farty and forty are greater than "normal".

Tolookah@discuss.tchncs.de · 10 pts · 101d

Add two more to that and it'll be too farty, too

untorquer@quokk.au · 7 pts · 101d (2 replies)

I've heard this joke a thousand times growing up and "Irish" was never used. I think it's even better when you don't try to explain the forced pronunciation. More groan inducing as a terrible dad joke and no weird stereotyping.

oeuf@slrpnk.net · 7 pts · 101d

Well it worked for me :)

Jimmycrackcrack@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 101d

Also, irish stew doesn't have beans.

DougPiranha42@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 101d

Okay, but if it’s fewer than 239, then even with one more it will be fewer than 240.