salt junk

There was the breakfast—salt junk and hard tack—regular sailor's fare.

Withal, sailors who have been for months on a diet of “salt junk,” not only eat, but pronounce it highly palatable.

The salt junk was either scarcely warm through, or was boiled into a soup.

The boys said the officers were sick of salt-junk, and meant to have turtle-soup before they came home.

We can't live on salt junk and hard bread without any water, sir.