hardtack

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Some sailors use pilot bread — a thick, crackerlike item similar to Colonial-era hardtack, which doesn’t go stale — to settle their stomachs.

From Washington Post • Nov. 1, 2018

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

Some are “hard-cores” so obsessed with authenticity that, when they’re in the field, they eat only hardtack or sorghum or other dreadful food from the period.

From Washington Times • Feb. 26, 2017

Even more distinctly Alaskan is the pairing of the spread with pilot bread, hardtack that can withstand the elements and the passing of time out in the wild.

From New York Times • Apr. 14, 2015

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