Well there’s a new twist on pre-Columbian contact theories...
Maybe the pre-Incans sent potatoes to the Olmecs who traded them with the Chinese (in exchange for teaching them how to make cool looking ink characters), who then gave them to the Egyptians who said, who in the hell wants potato beer? so they sent them into Central Europe to one the Lost Tribes of Israel which was hiding out in Bohemia (before moving to Utah), who then gave them to the Steppe people in Russia who then invented vodka.
This reporter could be on to something!
As some Ancient Astronaut Theorists believe