from The Boston Globe

Molar-breakers, tooth-dullers, and sheet iron — not exactly the names one might choose to describe a signature food.

But as one of the country’s last remaining producers of the dense, flour-and-water crackers known as hardtack (and other less-than-flattering terms that refer to their tooth-breaking hardness), the new owners of the G.H. Bent Co. of Milton are embracing the historical side of the company.(Read the full story here.)