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I'm not really confident about what qualifies as "common food" or "typical western diet", nor the accuracy of the following sources, but I feel like if someone's going to answer OP, they should have something to back it up.
Onions - 5,500 years ago
http://www.vegetablefacts.net/vegetable-history/history-of-onions/
Sugar - 6,000 years ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_sugar
Beans - 7,000 years ago
https://cablevey.com/history-of-dried-beans-how-it-all-started/
Corn - 10,000 years ago
https://cropcareequipment.com/blog/corn-farming-history/
Potatoes - 13,000 years ago
https://spudsmart.com/domestication-of-the-potato/
Around here (Sweden) I would bet a bit that any fish from the Baltic Sea is both common and super old member of the diet for the population around the water. Salmon is also a great contender being found in the rivers as well.
Any of the easily hunted animals that are still around, don't know if it's "common" if it's seen as a delicacy outside of hunting families though
I think fish is a likely winner - it's something we likely hunted and gathered and continue to consume in generally the same format over the years.
Rice - 13,500 to 8,200 years ago China
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rice
Wheat - as early as 21,000 BC
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheat