The Sun correspondent knows, for he has eaten with these men. Many a time has he seen members of the wardroom mess send out for some of the food the sailormen were eating at that moment, the officers preferring it to the food of their own mess. Every man on a warship has his pound and three-quarters of meat a day. He must be provided with it, the regulations, say, no matter what the cost. He must have a certain allowance of this and that, and a general steward sees that it is made up into attractive dishes. The sailorman no longer eats his meals sitting on a deck with the food spread out before him on a piece of canvas. He has tables and benches and plated knives and forks. His dishes are washed by machinery, his tables scrubbed until they are as clean as any housewife could make them. And when he is through his meal all are triced up out of the way, in what a landsman would call the rafters, practically out of sight. Gone are the days of scouse, lob scouse, skillagalee, burgoo, lob dominion. Gone are the days when the men divided themselves up into societies for the destruction of salt beef and pork. Slush, as the duff made from large quantities of beef fat was called, is one of the absent morsels of food. You don't hear anything more of dunderfunk. What was dunderfunk? Well, it has been defined by sea sharks in this way: "As cruel nice a dish as man ever put into him." It was made of hardtack hashed and pounded, mixed with beef fat, molasses and water, and it was baked in a pan. No, the men nowadays have cottage pudding, tapioca pudding, ice cream, if you please. Their meats are of the finest. Every article of food is the best that can be bought. It's plain food, true, but no food was ever better than the best of plain food. Here is a menu of one week picked at random from the collection: SUNDAY. _Breakfast._ Baked Pork and Beans. Tomato Catsup. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Dinner._ Roast Pork. Apple Sauce. Brown Gravy. Potatoes. String Beans. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Supper._ Cold Corned Beef. Tinned Fruit. Cake. Bread and Butter. Coffee. MONDAY. _Breakfast._ Corn Meal Mush. Milk. Fried Pork Sausage. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Dinner._ Vegetable Soup. Roast Beef. Gravy and Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Supper._ Beef Pot Pie. Jelly. Bread and Butter. Tea. TUESDAY. _Breakfast._ Ham Hash. Tomato Catsup. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Dinner._ Fricassee of Veal. Green Peas. Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Supper._ Frankfurters. Hot Slaw. Bread and Butter. Tea. WEDNESDAY. _Breakfast._ Baked Pork and Beans. Tomato Catsup. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Dinner._ Tomato Soup. Boiled Ham. Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. _Supper._