>>212048714Pasta predates potatoes in Europe by a couple of centuries, although people had some other root vegetables. People ate bread, other grains and grain products, and pulses long before either of the above.
Unless he was asking what Swiss people ate before pasta, in which case it was mostly bread, dairy products, and miscellaneous animals. Lots of delicious ibexes and marmots. And at one point in history we ate all of our native beavers. They’ve been driven to extinction at least twice here, and only fairly recently reintroduced.