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Hard tack

The Slang Dictionary by John Camden Hotten (1873)
ship biscuits. This is a term used by sailors to distinguish their ordinary sea-bread from that obtained on shore, which is called soft tack , or soft tommy. Hard tack  is also a phrase used by the London lower classes to signify coarse or insufficient food.