Posted by Adam Quinan on June 28, 1996 at 20:49:19:
In Reply to: Re: Re: Re: Does anynoe know where to get ships biscuits or symilar? posted by peter on May 12, 1996 at 00:46:53:
: :Go to a good supermarket and ask. I can get something called "cabin bread", really hard flour/water crackers, I assume they are the same. By the way, Joseph Banks who sailed with Cook on the endeavour, used to put his ships biscuit on the stove and wait until the weevils crawled out, befor eating.
: : : In the S & A equations in which 'pemmican'=corned
: : : beef and 'grog'=ginger beer, I had always assumed
: : : that 'ships biscuits'=digestive biscuits. However,
: : : I cannot now trace the basis for that assumption:
: : : was it no more than a plausible guess on my part?
: : The first mention of ships biscuits that springs to
: : my mind is in PD, when Susan takes up a 'sandwich'
: : to Peter Duck, who is watching for the return of John
: : and Nancy with Capt. Flint. So I sort of assumed
: : that they would be _real_ ships biscuits.
We used to call Garibaldi or "squashed fly" biscuits "ship's
biscuits" because they had "weevils" in them as in all good
tales of the sea!