There’s a few others foods too, some only in the first edition of the hobbit

Never seen it, but reputedly it referenced China. I wonder in what context.

hobbits no longer eat guacamole after the revision, very sad

Lol i think it was tomatoes but I’d have to check

Okah yeah it was tomatoes, then changed to pickles in the revised edition

The thing is, Gondorian expeditions to the "new lands in the West" that arose after the sinking of Numenor are actually established in-text, so it is totally plausible that the Hobbits would have access to New World crops like tobacco and potatoes.

wait

GONDORIAN COLUMBUS IS CANON

I still like the earlier version where they used airships for this

If you mean that Gondorians (or rather Dúnedain) were in contact with the Americas, yes. But this is all long before Columbus (and Magellan), and it was forgotten about in subsequent ages. It's also not clear if those lands were peopled yet; perhaps Native Americans are descended from Dúnedain.

Lost tribe of gondor

They prefer "Latter Day Saints" these days.

The world is flat, but only for Elves.

Thomas Friedman is an elf

Okay yeah I remember this. I absolutely did NOT consider the implications lol. (Lost hobbit colony in Newfoundland etc)

I fucking hate that they do land acknowledgements on New Gondor TV now, the "natives" we wiped out were literally descended from Ungolianth in an unholy union with a nature spirit? This reeks of Morgoth sympathising crap

not actually correct recent documents indicate they were a genuinely new kindred of Men Eru planted there

Yeah I mean it’s quite clear from their own traditions! Are we just gonna discount the Dunlandic ways of knowing, eg?

This all implies that capsicums are native to the undying lands and elf cuisine should be full of them.

Elves also traveled from tol eressea *to* numenor

Seriously was just talking about this and I couldn't remember if they had tomatoes or not.

Ha yeah I talk a good game but have NEVER actually had the original text in my hand so there's plenty I don't know! So, like, pizza was retconned too? The ring induced Bilbo to lie about guac and pizza?

potatoes were brought to Middle Earth by the Elves

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not widely known but they were cultivated originally from the fruit of the Two Trees and that is why they are so tasty and versatile

lembas actually made from potato starch

Which is why the grow Eyes, the long to see the Light of the Trees

*they long drat

Historians call this the "Galadrian Exchange"

(potatoes were imported by the eagles, who had a lot of free time given that they weren’t carrying the ring to Mordor)

Clearly potatoes are an not-particularly sweet variety of sweet-potatoes, aka yams. (Yes, I know all the ways this is nonsense; I also know how fans fix-up inconsistencies in canon.)