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
We lunched on the small amount of smoked fish and seaman’s hardtack we had bought at a souvenir shop and drank water.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 20, 2022
He made a tidy sum selling the government hard, dry bread and biscuits - known as hardtack - for Union soldier rations.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 30, 2020
A lot of times they were on very short rations, eating just hardtack and water day after day.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
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