The Elephant and Butter

A learn-ed comparison....

{Elizabethan Seaman's Daily Ration* vs. 

What I Ate on this Workday**}

1/4 lb. butter | bagel with jalapeño cream cheese

bottle of beer | 2 cups coffee & Cold-EEZE®

1 lb. ship's biscuit | burrito & banana & challah & water

1/2 lb. cheese | slice of pepperoni pizza & water

Adjusting for the fact that Elizabethan sailors precede me by about 450 years of culinary advancement, I think it's pretty clear that they win this match-up. Selah.

*Source: "Much Depends on Dinner," by Margaret Visser, Collier Books, 1986, p. 98.

**Source: my recollections.