Posted by Sam Coupland on May 10, 1996 at 18:00:07:
In Reply to: Re: Does anynoe know where to get ships biscuits or symilar? posted by tim on May 10, 1996 at 13:51:33:
: 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.