Editing Chesapeake and Ohio Canal (section)

====Food====

Canned food was sometimes brought. Bean soup, made with beans, [[ham hock]]s, and an onion, was common. Other items included corn bread, eggs and bacon, ham, potatoes, and other vegetables. A reported canal custom was the first few rows of corn from farms along the canal could be used by the boatmen. Berries along the towpath were also picked. [[Molasses]] also was common. Bread and many groceries could be bought along the canal. Muskrats were sometimes eaten, as well as chickens and ducks either bought or even stolen along the way. Rabbits were snared. Crew members sometimes had a shotgun to shoot rabbits, groundhogs, or other game. Turtles were eaten as well as eels that the lock tenders caught in [[eel pot]]s in the rivers or the bypass [[flume]]s. Fish included sunfish, catfish, bigmouth bass, and black bass.<ref>[[#hahn-boatmen|Hahn, Boatmen]] p. 21-22</ref>