Editing Hardtack (section)

==Etymology==
The name is derived from "tack", the British sailor slang for food. The earliest use of the term recorded by the ''[[Oxford English Dictionary]]'' is from 1830.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |title=hardtack, n. |dictionary=OED Online |date=2022 |publisher=Oxford University Press |edition=}}</ref>

It is known by other names including ''brewis'' (possibly a [[cognate]] with "[[brose]]"), ''cabin bread'', ''pilot bread'', ''sea biscuit'', ''soda crackers'', ''sea bread'' (as rations for sailors), ''ship's biscuit'', and pejoratively as ''[[Dog biscuit|dog biscuits]]'', ''[[Molar (tooth)|molar]] breakers'', ''sheet iron'', ''tooth dullers'', ''Panzerplatten'' ("''armor plates''"; Germany) and ''worm castles''.<ref name="Cahn 1969">{{cite book | last=Cahn | first=W. | title=Out of the cracker barrel: the Nabisco story, from animal crackers to zuzus | publisher=Simon and Schuster | year=1969 | url=https://archive.org/details/outofcrackerbarr0000cahn | url-access=registration | access-date=October 6, 2017 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/outofcrackerbarr0000cahn/page/27 27]–28| isbn=9780671203603 }}</ref><ref name="Smith 2006 p. 62">{{cite book | last=Smith | first=A.F. | title=Encyclopedia of Junk Food and Fast Food | publisher=Greenwood Press | series=Advisory Board | year=2006 | isbn=978-0-313-33527-3 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4jIOEZ5F9fAC&pg=PA62 | access-date=October 6, 2017 | page=62}}</ref><ref name="Smith 2003 p. 72">{{cite book | last=Smith | first=P. W. | title=New England Country Store Cookbook | publisher=Iuniverse Inc | year=2003 | isbn=978-0-595-25396-8 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5IEnJBtqfRsC&pg=PA72 | access-date=October 6, 2017 | page=72}}</ref><ref name="XNSlG">{{cite web |url=http://www.19thusregulars.com/html/hardtack.html |title=19th United States Infantry |publisher=19thusregulars.com |access-date=2013-12-25 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120304092923/http://www.19thusregulars.com/html/hardtack.html |archive-date=2012-03-04}}</ref> Australian and New Zealand military personnel knew them with some sarcasm as ''[[ANZAC]] wafers'' (not to be confused with [[Anzac biscuit]]).