My father once told me that it was a pilot biscuit that he'd give me when I was teething, to my mother's dismay. Mom was afraid I choke on them.
Pilot Biscuits – essential sailor food!
Call it what you will: hardtack, sea biscuit, pilot bread, pilot biscuit. It was once was a staple of a sailor's culinary life.

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