Potatoes

[Lindale]

Having read the bit of CoH with Mim and his sack of roots this dinnertime I thought... the roots he was gathering were... potatoes. Any thoughts?

But when they were washed the roots proved to be white and fleshy with their skins, and when boiled were good to eat, somewhat like bread; and the outlaws were glad of them . . . 'Wild Elves know them not; Grey Elves have not found them; the proud ones from over the Sea are too proud to delve . . . . we do not teach Men how to find them, for Men are greedy and thriftless, and would not spare till all the plants had perished.'

But when you boil potatoes, it's not exactly like bread, is it? Unless you overcook it. Boiling is the only way mentioned in CoH of cooking those roots; probably during the zenith of Amon Rudh they had other ways of cooking/preparing it.

This was the First Age; probably during the Third Age, where we have Sam wishing for "good taters" to stick in his stew, potato cultivation has been around for quite a long time.

I've tried Googling "potatoes Mim Turin" and nothing significant I have found.

Oh and forgive this thread that is probably brought about by working in the dead of night with a tummy full of potatoes.