hardtack

Example Sentences

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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

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

A lot of times they were on very short rations, eating just hardtack and water day after day.

From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier