^^TBF actual navy food was probably often worse as those guys tended to sail for very extended periods away from base, whereas pirates tended to stick closer to friendly coasts on account of needing to fence their loot. Plus the latter could more readily resupply by pillage anyway.
Also pirate ship supplies would have been bad because of real hard times instead of sheer budget miserliness, as their captains didn't have marine detachments on hand to keep an unhappy crew from mutinying...
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