Why are there potatos in middle earth?

[Skitarii]

Potatoes aren't trad and yuropean, they're brown and from the americas. How did tolkien let this detail slip in his tradcath elf sex larp?

 

[Fastest Hand In The East]

Potatoes are nutritious, tasty and relatively easy to cultivate.
They are useful and provide a much needed food.
Unlike people of colour, who have infiltrated the middle earth, especially the higher echelons of dwarven society.

 

[Feline Supremacist]

Because Tolkien was a racist whyte man and appropriated not only the food but the story from the Book Of Tzophilze (except they hunted the hobbits and offered them flayed and screaming to Quetzalcoatl to save the Middle Mayan Pyramids from the Spaniard Orcs and Catholic goblins).

 

[OldSchoolBoxxu]

you know, i actually never thought of this

 

[OldSchoolBoxxu]

Apparently tomatoes were also a thing in the first edition of the hobbit till it changed to pickles

 

[millais]

The denizens of the Emerald Isle had sufficiently whitewashed the pre-Columbian origins of the potato

 

[Spud]

A cut part from the books was the brutal and efficient genocide of the darker toned hobbits, their dark skin as indication of the corruptive temptations of Sauron and thus had to be purged from the comfy shire.

 

[Gimmick Account]

Upsetting observation.
But they aren't speaking English so let's call it a localisation issue for some other root vegetable or extinct elvish coconut or something.