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title: "Hardtack sampling"
url: "https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/2015-10-23-13-20-04-hardtack-sampling"
school: "St Stephen's Kearsley Moor CofE Primary School"
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# Hardtack sampling

  ![Image of Hardtack sampling](https://files.schudio.com/ststephenskm/images/Year%202/image(127).jpg)  23 October 2015   [Lyndsey Faulkner](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/author/Lyndsey)   [Year 2 Blog](https://www.ststephenskearsley.co.uk/blog/category/year-2-blog)

The children are true explorers of the New World ... They loved hardtack and asked for seconds, I'm unsure if they could eat it day in and out after days and weeks at sea! I think the contrast of bananas came as a welcome relief to the early explorers on encountering the Americas.

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