According to O’Brien, a sailor would be allowed a daily ration of a pound of bread, 1/2 pound of salt beef, 1/4 pound of salt pork, dried peas, oatmeal, butter, and cheese. This was designed (within the limitations of the time) to provide enough to sustain them for their extremely physical roles. They also had a daily allowance of two pints of grog (three parts water to one part rum),
I was reading along and thinking about posting, then saw a reference to long ago poster Zenster and realized this was a Pleistocene post from even before my time.
You can have kippers for Breakfast in America. Sounds disgustting to me but I heard it in a song.
Here in the USA, too.
Like hash browns or ‘breakfast potatoes’ are often made from the cooked potatoes left over from the previous night.
And the eggs and bacon or sausage are easily & quickly cooked to go with them.