Monty by Jim Meddick for January 07, 2021

No wonder there weren’t many pirates.

Don’t forget the Rum , !

No maggots?

Maybe instead of the pirates’ nautical cuisine, he should have specified their shore cuisine. Anything they could steal.

How about gruel and lutefisk?

I thought pirates ate at “Long John Silver.”

Panel 3, what a long face.

They couldn’t call them “Pirate’s Booty” if it wasn’t what pirates actually ate, could they? :-)

You can keep your tasteless non-GMO Cheetohs and pass me them pig knuckles, son.

And some of the gold wrapped doubloons for dessert.

Alas, sir; such squeamishness will not get you far, if it’s a pirate you wish to emulate.

Better pig’s knuckle than moose knuckle.

Make sure the biscuits are weevily, for the protein!

Yo ho. A pirate’s life for me.

“Sailors were not immune from the common problems that came from hardtack that was not properly stored during initial production or transportation. Especially being at sea, hardtack for sailors often became wet and therefore moldy and inedible. Additionally, due to the infestation of insects in factories where hardtack was produced, soldiers were often forced to simply deal with the bugs in their rations. Some ships stored the hardtack in big barrels, and soldiers began placing dead fish on top to draw out the bugs as a way to make the hardtack more edible.” —http://scoresurvival.com/hardtack-the-ultimate-survival-food/

Why do you think pirates were so skinny and irritable?

So much for living the real pirate life, ehh, Sedgwick?Well, no matter. I suspect I might prefer root beer to rum myself (and why am I reminded of Michael Dorn on DS9 here?)….

I always thought that was such an appealing name! “Eat this, kid! It tastes like a pirate’s booty! ARRRR!” Mmmm-mmm!