What do they serve for food aboard your ship?

[Obadiah Jib]

What is on the menu for the Captain and crew on the ship you call home?

[Welsh Wench]

Lobster with drawn butter and some very special brownies.
We stole the ingredients from a ship called the Haight-Ashbury.

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

The strange thing was, the more brownies we ate, the hungrier we got! 

[Blackbead]

Salmagundy, of course!  We also eat lots of grilled meats cooked over the barbacoa, sweet potatoes, and tropical fruit (papayas, bananas, coconut, etc.)  Fish, sometimes, wild fowl or pig, fried plantains, and anything we can steal off of the big Spanish ships coming in from the Old World (especially good for getting black pepper and other spices!)

[Obadiah Jib]

any for turtle meat?

[Blackbead]

We've never tried turtle.  Or parrot.  Or penguin.

But I hope to take the crew on a cruise down to Puerto Vallarta this summer and I hear they make a fine turtle soup there! 

[Welsh Wench]

Mmm!
Turtles!

With caramel and pecans and milk chocolate.....
Huh?
It is?

EWWWW!!!!

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

There, there, love.  Have some shrimp etouffee.  We'll skip the turtle cheesecake this time around, though. 

[lilaney]

Wait, wait, wait! It that what ya'll have been eating?!
No fair! I have been over here eating what I have cooked, I am half-starved!

As for what would have 'really' been eaten on a boat, way back when, whatever would store for long periods of time.
Hard tack, beans, pig's fat (for flavoring)
And lordy knows what else..

[Capt Robertsgrave Thighbiter]

SHips biscuits and more biscuits - Old Weevil's Wedding Cake, we be sick of it.  The rare dolphin, oddly jointed by the ships butcher. Salt beef ( I hope) and  Figgy Dowdy with the fruit what not gone to rot yet.   What 'er we can catch or' the side.   And what victuals ever we plunder ! 

Hey no kiddin on the ships biscuit - they are tough to take!  My fairelady made some from a Royal Navy recipe.    I think I'da rather eaten the leather lanyard covers.

[lilaney]

*chuckle* ya have to soak them in salt water to get chewy enough to actually consume.
I agree, hard tack is not the way to live.. a way to catch scurvy.. but, not to live.

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

Wait, wait, wait! It that what ya'll have been eating?!
No fair! I have been over here eating what I have cooked, I am half-starved!

It's not our fault Martin has been holding out on you! 

[Blackbead]

SHips biscuits and more biscuits - Old Weevil's Wedding Cake, we be sick of it.  The rare dolphin, oddly jointed by the ships butcher. Salt beef ( I hope) and  Figgy Dowdy with the fruit what not gone to rot yet.   What 'er we can catch or' the side.   And what victuals ever we plunder ! 

Hey no kiddin on the ships biscuit - they are tough to take!  My fairelady made some from a Royal Navy recipe.    I think I'da rather eaten the leather lanyard covers.

I was an American Civil War reenactor for 22 years - I ate a LOT of homemade "soldier bread."  The recipe I had was one cup of flour to two cups of warm water with salt, if you have it.  I have a cutter to shape them and put the little holes throughout.  Then you bake them at 425 degrees for 20 minutes and then at 200 degrees for awhile (the idea is to get EVERY drop of moiture out of the things!)  Then you let 'em sit in the freezer for a few days, covered in aluminum foil.  Thaaw 'em out and your ready to go to war.  We even used to slip in some rice krispies or cocoa krispies every now and then for weevils.  What fun . . .

[lilaney]

Oh! Blackbeard that is brilliant!! May I borrow that recipe?
I have a feeling that I will be setting the Cad's table with 'Hard tack' this season!!
(This is a small vindication for me and I thank you for your assistance, therein)

[renren]

Chocolate, served by handsome cabana boys!
Then, I wake up!

[Lady Amy of York]

You mean you are suppose  to feed your crew ?  Now  they tell me !

[Obadiah Jib]

how about long pork?