hardtack

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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

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

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

All the younger children were able-bodied seamen who, presumably, ate hardtack and bunked before the mast.

From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey