Hardtack & Hell Fire Stew

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• BD

  @BDylanHollis · 4 years ago · pinned

  You mean to say there's a somewhat edible use for my Civil War Hardtack!? I'll stop using them as doorstops and try this now.

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• CA

  @carlchapman4053 · 3 years ago

  "A single loaf of dwarf bead could keep a warrior marching for months on end because with every step he is thinking 'I have to find food soon or it's back to that that fu*king bread'" - Terry Pratchett

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• JA

  @jakedesnake97 · 4 years ago (edited)

  I love how hard tack has basically become a recurring character on this show

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• OR

  @OrcBro · 3 years ago

  "If you don't like the food, you just sat down to eat a few days too early" - my grandpa (russian proverb)

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• DO

  @Dohlenblick · 4 years ago

  "We considered using hardtack in lieu of grapeshot and firing it upon the enemy, but on further reflection that seemed too cruel a thing to do to our fellow man." (Is what I imagine word around the campfire was)

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• PI

  @Pinely · 4 years ago (edited)

  I usually have a hard time watching cooking videos because of how hungry they make me, but that's definetly not a problem with these hardtack videos

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• AM

  @amberdent651 · 3 years ago

  My mom told me that her father, who was born in the 20s, would stir saltines into his coffee as late as the 70s because he grew up needing to eat hardtack during the Depression, and one of the popular ways to manage hardtack at the time was to just stir it into coffee until it turned into mush. So even when he no longer needed to eat hardtack, he still liked the texture of mushy coffee, I guess.

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• SW

  @Swindle1984 · 4 years ago

  Hardtack was used as paving tiles to make sidewalks in some Civil War camps, particularly in muddy conditions. A common joke was "I bit into something soft while eating hardtack today." "A worm?" "No, a nail." And Steve 1989 actually ate a piece of Civil War-era hardtack and said it tasted like mothballs and old books ("Nice!").

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• DI

  @DinoDeBlue · 1 year ago

  I like how half the time they just use the hardtack as just flour. Its basically just another way they stores flour..

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• AN

  @AngryEggs231 · 4 years ago

  The Gingerbread man made his house of bread, and by the next day it had gone away.  But now he's made it from hard-tack, and now it's here to stay.

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• AL

  @alcatrazthatguyontheintern1465 · 4 years ago

  He cooks, he researches, he builds with Legos, he reviews.<br><br>Max truly is a cultured man.

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• DA

  @daveryan6624 · 3 years ago

  My Dad was in the 81st infantry division. They had been eating dehydrated vegetables for weeks. They went into Pelau and K Rats was it for quite awhile. Then one day they got canned corned beef. They ate it until they were sick of it. Then one day they got in potatoes. My Dad was the mess sgt. He got busy and made potato salad. An officer happened by and saw they were eating potato salad. He asked my Dad where he got the mayonaise. He said I made it. Next thing he knew he was cooking for the officers.

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