In exchange we gave them soup, made in a large kettle, and had several things they were strangers to in their life in the forest of vines, flowers and fruit of the tropics where they subsisted on rations of pork, bacon, hardtack, etc.
"Sixty Years of California Song"
Margaret Blake-Alverson
Imagine it, the life of a retired professor, as stale as a piece of hardtack, tortured by gout, headaches, and rheumatism, his liver bursting with jealousy and envy, living on the estate of his first wife, although he hates it, because he can't afford to live in town.
"Uncle Vanya"
Anton Checkov
Both sides were starving, the one for tobacco and the other for hardtack and bacon.
"The Crisis, Volume 7"
Winston Churchill