hardtack

Example Sentences

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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

My favourite episode is episode 13: The Cheesiest, which includes stories about how President Andrew Jackson started Big Block of Cheese Day, and a bit about American civil war soldiers’ least favourite food, hardtack.

From The Guardian • Mar. 30, 2018

Finally he and a sailor swam to another island and discovered a hidden camp where some native islanders had kept fresh water and hardtack and crackers.

From "Dead End in Norvelt" by Jack Gantos