People in nineteenth-century Ireland ate a lot of potatoes. That is, unless they lived in Ireland between 1845 and 1849 during the Reign of Phytophthora. Look it up.
As you can probably imagine, the poor, starving Irish family, backs bent from days tending the potato fields subsisted on potato soup, mashed potatoes, whole baked potatoes, boiled potatoes, steamed potatoes, French-fried potatoes, potato chips, scalloped, diced, or sliced and fried potatoes, hash browns, dumplings, Rösti or potato pancakes, potato gumbo, potato pizza, potato tooth paste.
Had the Irish been aware of a leafy vegetable heavy in vitamins known as broccoli, the story might have been different.
It's a blog-eat-blog world out there, and even if you're Irish, you're probably not a potato farmer. So what's my point? You were lucky enough to stumble upon the broccoli of the blogosphere—a latest step in blogolution. Attribute it to a divine maker or natural selection if you like, but any way you cook it, you just landed on the purest, most evolved form of blogging.
If it would've worked for the Irish in real life, it can work for you on the Internet.
You can try to resist. But, once you go broc, you never go back.
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