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Hence the various sea-rolls, made dishes, and Mediterranean pies, well known by men-of-war's-men Scouse, Lob-scouse, Soft-Tack, Soft-Tommy, Skillagalee, Burgoo, Dough-boys, Lob-Dominion, Dog's-Body, and lastly, and least known, Dunderfunk; all of which come under the general denomination of Manavalins.
Now the only way that a sailor, after preparing his dunderfunk, could get it cooked on board the Neversink, was by slily going to Old Coffee, the ship's cook, and bribing him to put it into his oven. And as some such dishes or other are well known to be all the time in the oven, a set of unprincipled gourmands are constantly on the look-out for the chance of stealing them.
Dunderfunk is made of hard biscuit, hashed and pounded, mixed with beef fat, molasses, and water, and baked brown in a pan. And to those who are beyond all reach of shore delicacies, this dunderfunk, in the feeling language of the Down Easter, is certainly "a cruel nice dish."
They sleep on the bunk-boards, do as they're told, and eat salt mule and dunderfunk same as we did goin' out." "Did they navigate for you? Did no one have charge of things?" "Poop-deck picked up navigation, and we let him off steerin' and standin' lookout. Then Seldom, here, he wanted to be captain just once, and we let him well, look at our spars." "Poop-deck? Which is Poop-deck?
"Well, sir, what now?" said the Lieutenant of the Deck, advancing. "They stole it, sir; all my nice dunderfunk, sir; they did, sir," whined the Down Easter, ruefully holding up his pan. "Stole your dunderfunk! what's that?" "Dunderfunk, sir, dunderfunk; a cruel nice dish as ever man put into him." "Speak out, sir; what's the matter?"
"My dunderfunk, sir as elegant a dish of dunderfunk as you ever see, sir they stole it, sir!" "Go forward, you rascal!" cried the Lieutenant, in a towering rage, "or else stop your whining. Tell me, what's the matter?" "Why, sir, them 'ere two fellows, Dobs and Hodnose, stole my dunderfunk." "Once more, sir, I ask what that dundledunk is? Speak!" "As cruel a nice "
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