Corona virus

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Well, in these difficult times, we are all asked to make personal sacrifices. Due to the potato surplus in Belgium, citizens are being asked to eat fries twice a week now.

Why does Belgium have a surplus of potatoes? Are they the new hemp??  

I don't know WHY...I guess they eat a lot of potatoes over there??

(BRUSSELS) — In a country that claims to be the real birthplace of the finger food that Americans have the temerity to call French fries, rescuing the potato industry might easily be a matter of Belgian national pride.
So while a coronavirus lockdown keeps restaurants, bars and many of Belgium’s 5,000 frites stands closed, the trade association for the national potato industry is calling on the population at large to do its part by keeping deep fryers fired up on the home front.
“Traditionally, Belgians eat fries once a week, and it’s always a festive moment,” Romain Cools, the Belgapom secretary general, said in a phone interview on Tuesday. “Now, we are asking them to eat frozen fries twice a week at home.”
The demand for frozen potatoes has nosedived in recent weeks, and the Belgian industry faces a possible loss of 125 million euros ($135.5 million), if hundreds of tons of surplus potatoes don’t move this year, Cools said.

I always like to pick up a bag of Brussels potato chips,