The Unbeatable Ships Biscuit

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Published 2024-05-26
When you think of bread aboard ship, you think of ships biscuits. What if they went away? What would replace them? What would food aboard ship look like then?

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All Comments (21)
  • @BSGSV
    He smacked two biscuits together twice! Max must be happy.
  • @madmanmapper
    Jon's smile when he did the clack-clack - he knows exactly what he did! :D
  • @justanobadi6655
    "Do you see those two weevils, doctor?" "I do, why?" "Which one would you choose?" "Neither, they are the exact same species of curculio." "If you HAD to choose ..." "If you are going to push me puts on glasses ... I would choose the righthand weevil, for it has significant advantage in both length and width" aubrey smacks table "THERE, I HAVE YOU! YOU'RE COMPLETELY DISHED ... do you not know that in the service ... one must always choose the LESSER of two weevils?"
  • @hannahbrown2728
    The camaderie between this channel and Max Miller will always delight me. I was half expecting them to cut away to Max with the clack clack, but now we have cuts of both of them clacking hardtack. Great work as always
  • @loganrossignol
    Legend has it that whenever you bang two pieces of ships biscuits together, Max Miller's ears ring
  • @FrikInCasualMode
    Hardtacks are the real MVP of field cooking. To this day Polish Army issues special variant of hardtacks in MRE's. Soldiers call them 'Panzer waffles" and joke that in a pinch they can be used as extra ballistic plates in body armor. Couple of years ago there was a movement to replace hardtacks with lightweight rice crackers, but it was unpopular and hardtacks returned to MRE's.
  • @Ducaso
    The Hardtack clap is the harmony that binds us together.
  • @arifhossain9751
    Gentleman and Ladies. It is my honor to bless this video with a CLACK CLACK
  • @MB-st7be
    In the Hornblower TV series you see the cook using one of those stoves. It was a wooden replica prop, and when the series ended they gave the prop stove to HMS Unicorn which is a museum ship in Dundee, you can see it there
  • @jeffreyrobinson3555
    I was a submariner and out cooks baked fresh loafs every day. The boat smelled so nice… until they blew the sanitary tanks and that was a whole different smell
  • @KathyPrendergast-cu5ci
    Sailors also drank almost nothing but beer, cider, or ale (which was used to soak the hardtack biscuits to soften them); all these beverages have nutritional value and in a pinch could keep people from starving even without the biscuits. Beer or ale the way it was originally made in Europe was a thick, soupy survival food, with less alcohol content than typical beer today, and people of all ages consumed it.
  • @janerkenbrack3373
    When I was a sailor aboard merchants ships in the 80s we had three meals a day prepared by cooks from a broad range of foods, but the quality of the stores and cooking talents varied widely. A ship was often referred to as a "good feeder" if the standards were high. But regulations that had long been superseded by modern contracts were still posted showing a pound of hardtack per sailor among the requirements. If we had a bad feeder, we might grumble of giving us the hardtack instead.
  • @scalylayde8751
    Ngl I was really hoping that Townsends would reach out to Max Miller and get the [clack clack] clip to splice in there