On board ships, what was 'hard tack'?
Correct answer: Biscuit
JellyBaker
The racehorse Seabiscuit's father was named Hard Tack. Hence, sea biscuit.
Yana
Cruise food is so much more upscale now !
Player #62086564
Biscuits that are HARD is better than NO biscuits. On long voyages/trips, you don't have the luxury of popping into your local Fast Food joint to eat. Just dunk it in a liquid, it'll soften up.
Refik
If they are baked four times, does that make them "bi-biscuits," or "quadcuits"? Since biscuit gets its name from "twice-cooked."
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Talespin123, In 'dem ol' cotton fields back home . . .
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Jump down, turn around,
pick a bail of cotton.
Jump down, turn around,
pitch a bale of hay.
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'Wishbone' on "Rawhide" was always handing out hardback to the hired hands to go with Srew
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Also made the trip with wagon trains because of the simple ingredients ( use alota salt ) and the "shelf life"
Taliesin12
Hard tack and weevils. Remember, always choose the lesser of two weevils.
Cap’n Patch
Player #62086564, sometimes you get them in c-rations. I broke a couple of teeth when I was a teenager on hardtack. In the Navy, we call them pilot biscuits.
Player #93460997
I got the answer right because of an Andy Griffith episode
our studio
It's still used in many traditional Newfoundland recipes, the most common being fish and brewis.
Jo
If you know Max Miller on YT you'll definitely know what hard tack is