Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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An omnipresent starch; sometimes the kernels were used as currency in games of chance | Corn | 84%
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The Most important of all; yet difficult to find clean supplies of | Water | 81%
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The most common food; infamously nicknamed tooth-dullers, sheet-iron crakers and Worm castles | Hardtack | 61%
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Primary source of protein; nasty smelling and nicknamed "sowbelly" | Salt Pork | 58%
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When meat wasn't available, this was the first protein substitute | Beans | 49%
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The one thing soldiers preferred over alcohol | Coffee | 46%
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Other source of protein, rotted even faster than the other one | Salt Beef | 46%
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A rarity, but necessary to prevent scurvy | Fresh Fruit | 38%
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The best source of protein; hard to maintain, target of foraging | Fresh meat | 30%
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Robert E. Lee called them the Confederacy's "best friend" | Peas | 8%
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