hardtack

“I never carry idlers on my ship! Between ports, a clerk isn’t worth the hardtack to keep him alive.”

We lunched on the small amount of smoked fish and seaman’s hardtack we had bought at a souvenir shop and drank water.

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.

European sailors relied on an early form of biscuit called hardtack on the journey to North America.

In one particularly poignant scene, Joseph decides to make a sculpture out of hardtack biscuits.