hardtack
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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
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
In the first they sample decades old corn chips, century-old Civil War hardtack and then freshen up with 100-year-old tooth powder.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 24, 2020
“There’s a couple weeks’ worth of hardtack in there, that’s what the boys eat down south on the front, plus pterofeed in case you can’t find any wandering...whatever that thing eats.”
From "Dactyl Hill Squad" by Daniel José Older
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The American Civil War
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