hard tack

It is like the difference between soft white bread and hard tack."

Then he shouted, "I can't eat hard tack without teeth.

A decade ago, Audi took a harder tack in selling its S line.

I should never grow tired of fresh green stuff, nor potatoes for that matter, after so many years of hard tack.

O, hard tack, come again once more!

There was little more in his pack than some hard tack and strips of dried meat, but I did not turn up my nose at these.

So let's regard this feast as something special to celebrate our release, and from now on we take our chance with hard tack!"

The porridge tasted very good (48-hour ration pack style) and hard tack biscuits ground down into the tea, not too bad.

Having to consume less appetizing food for extended periods led to revisions wishing for the return of hard tack.

They required little to eat, clothes mattered not much to them, in the strengthening air was the gossamer and hard tack of webwork.

Hardtack (or hard tack) is a simple type of cracker or biscuit, made from flour, water, and sometimes salt.

His flour meant that hard tack could have been removed from sailors of the British Navy but the admiralty resisted for some years.

Hard Tack may refer to:

'I'm getting a bit tired of hard tack.'

As an example, on one occasion when the starting gate opened and the horses rushed out, Hard Tack stood perfectly still, refusing to budge.

Hard Tack (1991)

Hard tack a fond adiew.

Turbulence and violent death haunted his adolescence just as repression and hard tack had besieged his childhood.

Hard Tack and Coffee or the Unwritten Story of Army Life.

He's chewin' hard tack on the squid-jiggin' ground.

Anzac tiles and wafers were hard tack, a bread substitute, which had a long shelf life and was very hard.

Three times the galley had been washed out, and the men, in the forecastle awash, contented themselves with hard tack and cold salt horse.

An advertisement for "Hard Tack" boasts that "the villain gets his throat slit in a deliciously cunning fashion."

Serve with--get ready--common crackers (basically hard tack), to be broken onto each bowl of chowder.

Right Tack was sired by Hard Tack out of the mare Polly Macaw.