hardtack
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The Scottish writer would certainly have been surprised to see David Oyelowo playing Long John Silver, which is one of the six-part series’ better innovations, despite Mr. Oyelowo chewing the scenery like hardtack.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 9, 2026
Cramped inside vessels overladen with precious cargo, crewmembers subsisted on a miserable diet of hardtack, an unleavened bread, and salted meat and fish that routinely spoiled and left many gravely ill.
From Barron's ● Apr. 28, 2026
Wartime museums display the bland hardtack that sustained Civil War fighters, and the canned meats, breads and fruit of World War II, known as C rations.
From New York Times ● Jun. 8, 2021
Some sailors use pilot bread — a thick, crackerlike item similar to Colonial-era hardtack, which doesn’t go stale — to settle their stomachs.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 1, 2018
They sat on a flat table-shaped rock halfway up and shared a hardtack lunch followed by a canteen of water.
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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The American Civil War
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